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Thinking First Impressions
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Thinking First Impressions

How to Make a Great First Impression  by Rebecca Knight  In the HBRThe saying You only have one chance to make a first impression holds true in many situations,...

Road Map for Digital Sales Organizations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Road Map for Digital Sales Organizations

In McKinsey: To realize the full value potential of digital, successful sales organizations reorganize top to bottom, front end to back end. Heres their road mapfor...

Cognitive Operational Systems, LLC
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Operational Systems, LLC

Brought to my attention for retail inventory applications. " ... Cognitive Operational Systems, LLC (COSY) is a spinout of UPenn's GRASP Laboratory. The company...

How Will Cognitive Tech Affect Your Organization?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Will Cognitive Tech Affect Your Organization?

How Will Cognitive Technologies Affect Your Organization?Big Idea: Data & AnalyticsBlog  Sam Ransbotham   MIT SloanOur once-subservient machines are encroaching...

Algorithms Failing in Context
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algorithms Failing in Context

I have seen many articles lately saying our world is driven by algorithms.   Algorithms have been my stock and trade, each constructed and employed for a particular...

Technology and Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology and Skills

In Medium:  A look at how technology is influencing our skills.   Technology has always moved skills to new places.  Retraining takes time and experience.   So...

Layoffs Hurt Companies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Layoffs Hurt Companies

The cost of layoffs to companies. In Knowledge@Wharton:  ' ... Contrary to popular belief, theres not much evidence that layoffs are a cure for weak profits, or...

Complex Event Processing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Complex Event Processing

I was reminded of complex event processing (CEP).   The WP has a good overview with resources:" ... Event processing is a method of tracking and analyzing (processing)...

Amazon Does Open Source Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Does Open Source Deep Learning

Good to see competition at play.Amazon goes open source with machine-learning tech, competing with Googles TensorFlow By James RisleyAmazon is making a bigger leap...

Detecting Review and Follower Fraud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Review and Follower Fraud

From CMU.  Tested against some very large set of Twitter data.   Uses a form of Graph Analytics.  Python code is available as Open Source.  Uses a form of  Faloutsos'...

What is R?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is R?

Nicely done, non-technical.  Check out some examples too.What is R? R Explained in less than Two Minutes, to Absolutely Anyoneby Bernard MarrIf you're looking at...

Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memories
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memories

Enhancing Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memories - Dan Tecuci, IBM Watson NLP Engineer  IBM Watson Health, gave a great presentation yesterday on Enhancing Intelligent...

Convetit: Real Time Problem Solving Dialogs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Convetit: Real Time Problem Solving Dialogs

I recently participated in a forum on AI/Cognitive applications.Convetit: " ...  Powered by an open platform of real world problem solvers, Convetit brings professionals...

Data Model Intelligence
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Data Model Intelligence

Data Modeling intelligence. A favorite topic, have been involved in semantic knowledge graphs lately.In O'Reilly:Age of intelligenceQi Lu explores data-model intelligence...

Valuing Companies in a Digital Era
From The Eponymous Pickle

Valuing Companies in a Digital Era

 In Knowledge@Wharton:A Better Way to Value Companies  The Digital Era Changes the Game In a world rapidly switching to digital business models, the old ways of...

When to Trust Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

When to Trust Robots

In the HBR:When to Trust Robots with Decisions, and When Not To  by Vasant DharSmarter and more adaptive machines are rapidly becoming as much a part of our lives...

Crowdsourcing Price Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowdsourcing Price Data

In Retailwire:  With discussion.Can crowdsourced price data change shopping habits?Comparing prices between brick-and-mortar grocery stores isnt an exact science...

VisiRule for Building Intelligent Applications
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VisiRule for Building Intelligent Applications

Brought to my attention, a considerable update to VisiRule,  Which I have followed for years.  Back to making rule based expert systems easier?   Links to business...

Blockchain Applications Beyond Finance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain Applications Beyond Finance

Blockchains Potential Extends Beyond the Financial IndustrySeptember 2016 | by Jim UtslerMany have heard about the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but few are familiarAs...

SmartStones Wins Singularity Grand Challenge Award
From The Eponymous Pickle

SmartStones Wins Singularity Grand Challenge Award

Been a while since I have mentioned Smartstones, have been slightly connected with their efforts for some time. Still awaiting some test versions of this to review...
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