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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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Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists
(And questions they should ask you) Crucially this is not about recruiting, but to make sure you are managing them to get value from proposed solutions. Management...
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Red 212 Content Strategy Agency
Brought to my attention: Red212: A Content Strategy Agency" ... Red212 was founded on the idea that business can be a powerful force for change. We are a full...
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Making Wikipedia Visible
Intriguing challenge is how to make any data usefully visual. Quant data has well established ways. Database structures have semantic networks. Here is linking...
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China Has an Echo-like Device
The basic idea continues to spread in the Smart Home. I am continuing to test the Google Home in a formerly Echo environment. See my curated list of assistants...
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Bletchley Park to Become Cyber College
Been following the restoration of British code breaking and early computing site Bletchley Park for years. Now it is slated to become a Cyber Education College...
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SAP HANA and Amazon Echo
Have always been interested in how there might be practical business uses of voice driven assistant systems. I am sure there are examinations occuring in industry...
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Disney Canvas for Storytelling
We long wanted to see something like this. For the non artist to express themselves in stories. Is it easy enough? Something closer to storyboarding might be...
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Slack Handling Your Mail
Still some time before we get to this but it would be nice. Fine tuning the details, and handling exceptions well will be key. Current Slack is no where close....
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Using IBM Watson in Business
This oversimplifies the task of using a capability like IBM/Watson, but is still a good introduction. Non technical, suggestive as to the possibilities. AlsoWilliam...
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Blockchain for Tracking the Supply Chain
More depth on this effort. Reliable tracking and trransparency creates potential data for many kinds of analytics. And simply knowing where things are to recall...
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Machine Learning Performance Improvement
Nicely done, a number of simple improvement ideas, which are usually the best ...Machine Learning Performance Improvement Cheat Sheetby Jason Brownlee on November...
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Predicting Demographics with Twitter
Always an interesting challenge. Note the mention of Mechanical Turk, a method we examined.In Techrepublic:" ... Big data can reveal inaccurate stereotypes on...
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When Computers Become Smarter than Humans
Knowledge@Wharton looks at the often posed question. The answer is, they already are. First they did math better, then searched better, connected to people better...
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Business Traffic in Real Time
We aimed to use public real-time webcam images to gauge traffic. Google maps can now provide some of that same type of data, perhaps to estimate demand of products...
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Chatbots in Business
Not unlike digital assistants, but usually more primitive to date. Usually act in a conversational mode in an existing stream of interaction. Use AI, naturalAI...
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Process Innovation with Data in a Digital World
Have always thought in terms of process. By doing that you can think not only what a process produces in terms of value, but also in terms of data that can beThis...
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AllRecipes Launches 60K Recipes for Amazon Echo
Allrecipes launches a 60K recipe file skill for the Amazon Echo, and other Alexa driven systems and devices. Great idea. Certainly useful for potential hands...
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Table Delivery from Kiosk Orders at McD's
The test is now over, and rollout is starting to all 14K US stores. Benefits seen were lower perceived wait times, higher average order value, about $1 perWill...
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Strong Networking
In Inc:5 Simple Habits of Strong NetworkersImplement these habits, and you'll go from sweaty-palmed to self-assured. By Kat BoogaardFairly obvious, but worth repeating...
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