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AI in Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI in Business

Remember outlining a similar report some time ago.   Really helps to layout who will use it and how.  I am seeing a move back to the term 'AI' too.The AI business...

GIF's and All that
From The Eponymous Pickle

GIF's and All that

A considerable look at the history of the GIF, a graphic format, developed in 1987,  that opened the door to online visualization.  Even animating things.   We...

Free NASA Online Research Archive
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free NASA Online Research Archive

A wealth of information.  Does not contain all research papers produced by NASA.NASA’s new online archive is a treasure trove of free research articles" ... NASA...

Future of Retailing Technology is Now
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Retailing Technology is Now

Forbes article.  Generally put, but good piece:The Future Of Retailing: The Technology Revolution Is Nowby Walter Loeb ,   ContributorI believe that retailing is...

Using Neural Networks with R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Neural Networks with R

Back in the first go around with neural networks we had to write our own, but now its easily available via R.  (And many other places)  This is a reasonable introduction...

Software and Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Software and Management

Technology and the “End of Management”FrontiersBlog July 27, 2016    Lynda GrattonNo, software will not render managers obsolete, but you will need to be more skilled...

Google on Beacons Reshaping Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google on Beacons Reshaping Marketing

In ThinkwithGoogle:" ... Beacon technology is poised to change the way consumers interact with brands, making devices more helpful and revolutionizing the way retailers...

Alexa and the Emerging Art of Conversation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa and the Emerging Art of Conversation

An interesting exploration of conversational interfaces using the Amazon Echo.   What has it shown us so far?  I like it, but it still has a long way to go. You...

ROI of Customer Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

ROI of Customer Engagement

Always looking for new ways to measure.   But it takes lots of trials in different contexts, to understand the implications of measurement.Calculating the ROI of...

Flying a Horse and other Creations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flying a Horse and other Creations

Been reading my former colleague Kevin Ashton's book:  How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery.  Very nicely done, worth the...

Microsoft Links Power BI to R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Links Power BI to R

 ... By Sharon MachlisI remain pleasantly surprised at Microsoft's enthusiasm for adding R to its analytics ecosystem (and not [at least yet] fulfilling suspicions...

AliceBot Chatbot Engine
From The Eponymous Pickle

AliceBot Chatbot Engine

I am reminded of the Alice Bot which we experimented with in the 90s.   Now the idea has taken hold as a simpler way of delivering AI, especially for human natural...

On Patient Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Patient Behavior

In every business where there are customers, its about their behavior.   Even in healthcare. Knowledge@Wharton talks about a new book:  How Patients Think: A Science...

Intel Acquires Nervana: How AI is Disrupting the Largest Industries
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Acquires Nervana: How AI is Disrupting the Largest Industries

Unexpected, but have always been impressed with Intel's deep innovation, want to see hardware enhanced AI.In Medium:   Standing on the Shore*: How AI is Disrupting...

AI and Human Safety: Steve Omohundro
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Human Safety: Steve Omohundro

AIBrainTalk: AI and Human SafetyOn August 17, 2016 Steve Omohundro spoke to the “Million AI Startups” group about “AI and Human Safety”:AI and robotics will create...

Naralogics: Understanding Decisions with Neural Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Naralogics: Understanding Decisions with Neural Networks

Always interested in how to represent and use models of decisions, especially how they are driven by data.   Today heard a talk by Nathan Wilson of Naralogics on...

Inc Looks at Neuromarketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inc Looks at Neuromarketing

Have been detached from technical neuromarketing efforts for a while now, you can see some writings from those efforts in the tag below.   Inc Mag takes a non technical...

Staying Ahead of Smart Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Staying Ahead of Smart Machines

A look at content generation using smart machines.  A newly discovered philosophical blog.   Lots of companies are considering the implications of AI today.

Driver Assistance vs Autopilots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Driver Assistance vs Autopilots

Interesting story of varying language being used in describing the idea of 'driver assistance' when using and selling the Tesla.   Our language has to adapt toIn...

Microsoft's Open Mind
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft's Open Mind

Not released yet, but apparently in process:Open Mind: Microsoft's Visual-Studio-like suite for machine learningMicrosoft looks to be building a Visual-Studio-like...
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