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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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Cognitive Assistance at Work
Excellent slides by Hamid R Motahari, of IBM Almaden, about the idea of a cognitive assistant in the workplace. Includes one of my favorite topics, how such systems...
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Emphasis for Simpilifed Analytics
Blog of interest. An attempt to simplify news coming out of analytics. Good idea. But .... Its not always about Big Data. But it is all about improving business...
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Visualizing Small Species in our Lives
Brought to my attention, somewhat specialized, but links to some of my work and interest in Botany, horticulture and agriculture. It is also useful to see unexpected...
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Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service
Though I came out of an enterprise that was largely an Oracle shop, I have been only minimally involved with them since then. Now I see that Oracle and Larry himself...
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Many Dimensions of Big Data
Paul Hofmann, longtime correspondent, on the many dimensions of Big Data. Always provocative on how data and viz can be used in business, " ... As storage gets...
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Sample Beautiful Science Visualizations
In Visualnews. A little less about data visualization, more about visualizing science in general. Another example of something to enthuse the scientist within"...
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What Amazing Bosses Do
I liked this. In the HBR: Motivating People .... What Amazing Bosses Do Differently ... by Sydney Finkelstein
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Manipulating Live Faces
Applications? Entertainment I imagine.Via the CACM: " .... Computer scientists from Stanford University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany say...
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Amazon vs Wal-Mart
Walmart vs. Amazon: Can Bentonville Beat a Rival That Values Growth Over Profit?One Seems to Have Upper Hand in Fight for Online Dominance; the Other May Have Secret...
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Microsoft Happy with Hololens Pre Applications
In VRFocus: Indication that Microsoft is getting many applications for their Hololens virtual reality approach. Looking forward to applications for the enterprise...
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Using Sound Waves to Hack Data
Not a new idea. Research on this and related ideas were done at the Pentagon in the mid 70s. It has always been a potential security issue.
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Predictive Analytics in the Supply Chain
Nicely done overview of the topic. Sounds like an outline of areas I worked in for a long time. I do have to ask: What has changed since we started work in this...
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Feature Engineering Tips
So what is feature engineering? Fundamentally it is the most important part of data science. Or of any analytic method, from the simplest to the most complex....
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Brain Pickings and More
In the NYT Books Review:‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,’ by Lisa Randall ... review by Maria Popova who is the founder of BrainPickings.org and an M.I.T. Futures...
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Online Retail Needs Instore Experience
Yes, apparently for at least some customers, and for those customers, to achieve maximum revenue. See also Herb Sorensen's take on this. More here after his...
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Semantic Folding and Knowledge Processing
Semantic Folding ...Note the mention of Jeff Hawkins, who we connected with long ago. Posts re his Numenta company. Technical, with intriguing implicationsThe...
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Data Modeling Tools
Emphasizing the visual. Nice overview. Would this generally influence your choice of data tools? Top 6 Data Modeling Tools ... by Zygimantas JacikeviciusBusinesses...
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How the Internet of Things is Changing Work
Lots of interesting examples, I clip below the obvious example in logistics. But collaboration and other enterprise examples are also goodHow the Internet of...
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Fast Image Classification
Something we tried to do, but never at this speed. In Flowingdata. Neuraltalk2.
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