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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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FindFace at Large
Was reminded by the Economist: Frankenstein's Paperclips. of the rogue Russian face recognition system called FindFace. Can we expect AI from beyond our regulated...
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Language Modeling a Billion Words
This is a technical, but interesting, tutorial on how to use noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) to train a multi-GPU recurrent neural network language model on...
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Not all Data Created Equal
Interesting piece that gets to my mantra of data assets. And combining data for additional and profitable leverage. Requires free registration.Some of the most...
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Macy's and Mall Intelligence
n CustomerThink. Previously mentioned. " ... If you follow retail trends, you know that department stores are in trouble.As shoppers have headed online and to...
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Internet IoT everywhere
In ReadWrite: Good review, nontechnical and even addressing part of the CPG space:" ... The Internet of Things is taking over the world. Well, maybe not in a literal...
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One Click Product Placement
When I first read this I was confused. What does this mean? We had studied product placement approaches since Soap Boxes in the silent era. And the general idea...
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Data Snooping in Practice
Good piece on the topic, though I had never called it that. Thought it was something about security. Another example of the lack of standards in the industry...
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On Quantum Computing
In the Edge, a conversation with Seth Llyod, Professor, Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Author...
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Dangers of Marketing Optimization
Have been involved in a number of marketing optimization projects in the brands. Are the new attempts at predictive analytics causing us to expect too much with...
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Samsung Scoop Speaker
A competitor to the Amazon Echo? Indications of voice activation. Samsung Scoop. Advanced cognitive skills are unclear. But note Samsung previous devices like...
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Visual Consulting Book
Friend and colleague David Sibbet who taught us many visualization techniques is writing a new book. Many links below at the tab to his work." ...President and...
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Visual Consulting
Friend and long time colleague David Sibbet writes about visualization. Read his site for insight and visual tools. " ... President and Founder of The Grove Consultants...
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Limits to Prediction
Santa Fe Institute workshop on the limits to prediction. Every practitioner knows there are limits to prediction. Systems may be chaotic, or influenced by unknown...
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Case Based Reasoning and Chatbots
Resources for integrating Case based reasoning (CBR) and bots. The integration could be a natural way to deliver intelligence in a bot. We used CBR in a number...
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Re Emergence of Google Glass
According to this piece it has never gone away. We spoke with Google on uses, and never got a very supportive answer. I get the idea that at the time the snarky...
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Algorithm/Problem Categories for AI and Data Science
Like this statement of solution categories: 10 Algorithm Categories for A.I., Big Data, and Data Science by Chris Pehura: Crunchers: These algorithms use small...
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Impact of AI on Jobs
Thoughtful piece with many interesting links. Good this pointed me back to Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog. Was on a panel with him in the 90s.Irving Wladawsky...
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Forklift Simulation Using VR
Interesting idea. If was one of the ideas we considered for warehouse and plant training, but the technology was not well enough evolved to make it workable. A...
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Sway Storytelling
Brought to my attention, Microsoft's Sway storytelling system. Lets you bring in other content from systems and create stories. Has been criticized as not different...
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