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Aristotle and the Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Aristotle and the Computer

In my earliest day working with computer science we were taught about logic and constructing circuits that could add, and that lead ultimately lead to today's devices...

Automation and Selling Floor Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automation and Selling Floor Jobs

In Retailwire:  Will automation like robotics replace selling floor jobs? An interesting question.  Despite experiments by companies like Lowes, am still not seeing...

Neural Network Zoo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neural Network Zoo

The Asimov Institute has put out a library/ontology of neural networks.   Interesting, showed many kinds of nodes I had never heard of, but also many I have.  Does...

Health Screening with Hololens
From The Eponymous Pickle

Health Screening with Hololens

Health Screening with Microsoft Hololens Technologies .... First I have heard of this direction, interesting.

Democratization of Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Democratization of Machine Learning

This topic came up in the talk I gave on advances in AI and analytics yesterday.   Via Data science Central a white paper by IBM: The Democratization of Machine...

AI, Robotics and Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI, Robotics and Jobs

Short piece that puts it quite well.   Jobs will change, we will adapt.  GE's Jeff Immelt: Robots won't kill human jobs ...

Reminder of the Need for Data Quality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reminder of the Need for Data Quality

Am often reminded in visits to the enterprise that data quality is not often enough considered carefully.  You don't have much if you don't have quality.  Consider...

Group Editing Photos as Collaboration Example
From The Eponymous Pickle

Group Editing Photos as Collaboration Example

Nice idea ... Collaborative work is a kind of inteligence enhancement.  You could further see collaboration between multiple people and advisory machines.  Group...

Streamlined Text Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Streamlined Text Mining

A  time ago we used relatively simplistic methods of context analysis to understand the meaning of gathered text.  Now with focused methods and increasing amounts...

GigaOM AI Videos
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GigaOM AI Videos

Just pointed out to me, a set of video interviews about AI and forward looking technologies.  Here an interview with Auren Hoffman.   \ by GigaOm.  This example...

Google Launches Open Source Site
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Launches Open Source Site

Worth taking a look at.  Description in Techcrunch:Google launches new site to showcase its open source projects and processes   by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl)...

Microsoft on Enterprise AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft on Enterprise AI

Interesting question on the 'adaptability' of AI.    It can certainly be used today by focusing it to specific problems.  It is being done.  Can it be used to cognitively...

Analytics Revolution?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Revolution?

This relates to the talk I gave yesterday.  Interview In SiliconAngle:An analytics revolution: the shift to deep learning and cognitive computing   by Tim Hawkins...

Ikea Does Smart Light Bulbs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ikea Does Smart Light Bulbs

Found this intriguing because it gave some evidence for a fringe-standardness of some basic components of the smart home.  Been doing some very incremental updating...

Taking Risks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taking Risks

 None of us do this well.  Here a Poker Players view,  not perhaps always the best context, from Inc:How to Get Better At Taking Risks. According to a Former Pro...

Whats needed for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats needed for AI

Good general piece in InfoQ about how you need to get the information right to do something that looks like AI.  I add that you also need to get the structure of...

Open Data Science in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Data Science in the Enterprise

From O'Reilly: 5 tips for embracing open data science in the enterprise Transform the way you approach analytics. By Alice LaPlante  Download the free ebook Breaking...

Blockchain for Supply Chain Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain for Supply Chain Management

More on Supply chain management and blockchain.  " .... U.S. retail giant, Walmart, is about to start a major test of blockchain technology for supply chain management...

VRFocus Redesigns
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VRFocus Redesigns

The VrFocus web site is redesigned, does good coverage of the topic of Virtual Reality.  Commercial and otherwise.

Putting AI into Devices
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Putting AI into Devices

Putting the AI on the edge, that is in the device itself rather than the cloud.  In IEEE Spectrum:Nvidia wants AI to Get Out of the Cloud and Into a Camera, Drone...
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