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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Minimizing Disaster Insurance Risk
PodcastWharton's Howard Kunreuther discusses his report on the insurance industry surrounding catastrophic events.Hurricane Matthew wreaked havoc in Haiti before...
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Testing Time Series Data
Very well done, and thoughtful and technical piece on testing a time series. Have heard of backtesting, but not hindcasting. And more specifically its about making...
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GE Gives out Dots for the Holidays
I am told that GE has given out free Amazon Echo 'Dots' to employees for the holidays this year. Recall that GE is also making an Alexa enabled lighting fixture...
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A Retail Revolution?
In Chief Marketer.Amazon Go: A Bold Inevitable Retail RevolutionPosted on December 21, 2016 by Patricia OdellLikely, as long as physical retail still exists. See...
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What People Really Want from Customer Service
A short HBR video on the topic. I like the way they illustrate it with short animated process diagrams, making the premise easy to understand. Even if these...
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Microsoft Teams
Have been using advanced chat capability Slack for a project. Not overly impressed. Impressed me because it was new, not because it had real value. Now Microsoft...
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Human Centered Design
Been a while since I have taken a look at the concept. I like it, but I have seen accurate measurement ignored when design thinking was invoked. Interesting What...
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Zuckerberg's Jarvis Assistant.
Zuckerberg's voice butler Jarvis. Yet anotother take on smart home voice assistants. No indication this may be made publicly available. Just starting to examine...
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On Data Preparation
In the always interesting DSC site. Absolutely, data must be prepared, cleansed, visualized, and thought about in its business context. Also key to start thinking...
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Automatic Document Search
Back to this approach, examined for years, obviously useful in legal, but in most any other kinds of research as well. Now being integrated into word processors...
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Blackberry Self Drives
An expected connection, but very interesting.BlackBerry opens self-driving and connected-vehicle R&D centerBlackBerry is adapting its QNX OS for advanced driver...
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Google Keep and AI
Makes sense to integrate the idea of note taking and reminding with bot-like AI. An idea we tested. Have been a user of Evernote for some time and they recently...
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Thinking Associate-less Retail Stores
Human-less stores are now possible — and it might be the end of retailAre retailers really willing to consider disassociating from associates? ... In CWorld, an...
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Google Home Advisor Expands with 30 Services
I am continuing to do a test of voice based advisory systems, comparing the Google Home to the Amazon Echo. Google Home just announced an expansion of services...
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Knowledge Explosion in Medicine
Good detailed piece. Many industries and companies are dealing with explosions of information and data that need to be understood and integrated into current process...
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More Intents Expands How you can Talk to Alexa
More planned Updates on Alexa Intelligence Implications of this work are unclear, this still seems to adhere to current architecture of the knowledge being used...
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Digital Measuring
Brought to my attentonMeasuring made easy, the Digital Way" ... The tape measure has remained virtually unchanged for over 100 years, until now. The eTape16 Digital...
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More Useful Virtual Realities
These kinds of developments made me think of virtual worlds, which also attempted to set up alternate worlds you could experience. So they are necessarily not...
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UX Research is Business Research
Makes sense, like in hte delivery of analytics, they should be closely integrated. And in partcular consider them both as process journies. So should be considered...
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