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Tango Mapping Phone Hands on
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tango Mapping Phone Hands on

In Engadget:  Mapping interior spaces.Up close and Personal with the First Tango phoneLenovo's Phab2 Pro has a lousy name, but Google's 3D mapping technology could...

Google's Trippy VR Experiment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Trippy VR Experiment

Google and their deep dream experiment." ... Google's latest VR experiment involves feeding footage captured by its 360-degree camera rig through the DeepDream...

Freight Forwarding via Flexport
From The Eponymous Pickle

Freight Forwarding via Flexport

Addressing the opportunity in outwardly boring businesses.  Good overview." .... To get the best deal on each leg of the journey and handle the hand-offs through...

Siri Playing Catch up
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siri Playing Catch up

Siri was the first general assistant of its kind, but despite the fact that I have had it at my fingertips for a long time,  I find myself using it less.   My take...

Getty Images Adapts to VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getty Images Adapts to VR

An indication of seriousness, business adapts to needs.  Here we are starting to build libraries of virtual reality content.

Buiding Morality into Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buiding Morality into Machines

Remember when this was discussed during the last emergence of smart machines.   The problem has not gone away.   Good detailed piece with a number of useful case...

Project CargoChain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Project CargoChain

[Notes]http://readwrite.com/2016/06/10/blockchain-and-iot-can-solve-the-challenges-of-international-freight-pl1/

Blockchain and IOT in the Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain and IOT in the Supply Chain

In Readwrite:Can the blockchain and IoT solve international freight’s issues?It’s become well established that the blockchain has an almost infinite range of functional...

Where to Look for the Next Big Thing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Where to Look for the Next Big Thing

In Innovation Excellence:   I like this because it combines art and science.  " ... Great innovators are not just smart, they are curious.  They are rarely purists...

Digital not the Answer to Everything
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital not the Answer to Everything

In CustomerThink: Over-engineering the Customer Experience – ‘Digital’ is not the answer to everything! .... Ian Golding, CCXP  CustomerThink Advisor featured columnist...

Phone Sensing its Environment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Phone Sensing its Environment

Phones sensing their environment in new ways.  Have tracked the Project Tango idea for some time.  An inverse of the beacon idea, with initiative given to the consumer...

Lecture on Decision Trees
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Lecture on Decision Trees

Video  " ... Random forests, aka decision forests, and ensemble methods. Slides available at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/540-2013/... Course taught in 2013 at...

Pushing the Interface of Voice Commands and Conversation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pushing the Interface of Voice Commands and Conversation

There is still a considerable way to go, but we have been shown that voice has real value.  Most important, we need to accurately define the nature of a conversation...

Data Shapes for Knowledge Specification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Shapes for Knowledge Specification

What is the shape of your data?   Been involved in some related discussions.  Deals ultimately with how knowledge and data  is stored and utlized, an importanthttps...

Open AI Publishes Requests for Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open AI Publishes Requests for Research

Nice set of challenge examples in OpenAI, give you a good idea of the possibilities of deep learning applications.   Will continue to follow this as it overlaps...

Machine Learning for Simplifying Migration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning for Simplifying Migration

A use case for Machine Learning – migration simplification.  By its nature machine learning does promote opportunities for simplification.  Can think of several...

Solving Machine Learning Problems in a Distributed Way
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solving Machine Learning Problems in a Distributed Way

Today's talk of interest:“Solving Large-Scale Machine Learning Problems in a Distributed Way” by Martin Takac, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University, gave a great...

Augmented Reality in the Real World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality in the Real World

As Virtual Reality Grows, Augmented Reality Hits The SpotlightWith the excitement growing as Facebook's Oculus and HTC's Vive hit homes, the tech industry has begun...

Loyalty and Retention
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Loyalty and Retention

Good idea, with emphasis on good experience design to make this happen.A Loyalty Program Becomes a Retention HubWritten by Alex McEachern | @alexmcea .... Today...

Deep Learning Lab for Future Cities
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Deep Learning Lab for Future Cities

Announcing - AI / Deep Learning Lab for Future Cities - at University of Madrid" .... I am pleased to announce the AI / Deep Learning Lab for Future Cities - at...
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