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Articles on Personal Assistants
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Articles on Personal Assistants

Recent articles on Virtual Personal assistants:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150710005433/en/http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21664071...

John Scully on Minding the Design Gap
From The Eponymous Pickle

John Scully on Minding the Design Gap

Design gap. New term for me, but have seen it happen in tech and in consumer package goods. " ... John Sculley earned a name for himself in the world of business...

Deep Learning for Computer Vison
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning for Computer Vison

Webcast recording.  Good introduction.  Via Pete WardenHow to Get Started with Deep Learning in Computer VisionThere have been big improvements in image analysis...

Shelf Scanning Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shelf Scanning Robotics

A little scary in the aisles.  We sought to re purpose security cameras to do this kind of thing.  Also crowdsourced the governance of shelves with cameras. Note...

November December Analytics Magazine on Real Time
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November December Analytics Magazine on Real Time

November/December Analytics Magazine is now OnlineFrom real-time analytics to data reduction to the ongoing debate over whether humans make better decisions than...

Crowdsourcing 3D Maps
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Crowdsourcing 3D Maps

In MITTechReview: Build a 3-D Virtual World with This Crowdsourced Map of the Real World ... Mapillary is stitching together user-submitted photos to create anGood...

Nomadic Computing Faster
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nomadic Computing Faster

In the CACM:  Nomadic computing speeds up Big Data Analyses.  " ... University of Texas at Austin professor Inderjit Dhillon, a 2014 ACM Fellow, concentrates on...

Technological Unemployment Talks
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Technological Unemployment Talks

Talks from the World Summit on Technological Unemployment, was on September 15." .... The World Technology Network (www.WTN.net), a community of the world's most...

Toyota Invests in AI and Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Toyota Invests in AI and Robotics

In IEEE Spectrum.  Continuation of the AI re-emergence.   Talk is interesting regards to the specifics.  Location specifics understandable, but I thought by now...

Alibaba's Singles Day Shopping Fest Changes e-Commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alibaba's Singles Day Shopping Fest Changes e-Commerce

In ClickZ: Upcoming.  Quite an international change. Number of  interesting details in the article." .. Alibaba wants to change the world's e-commerce landscape...

Charted Cognitive Biases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Charted Cognitive Biases

A favorite topic, cognitive biases:  Here a list of 20 biases in chart form.  Never thought there were so many, but it is worth considering them all.  They skew...

Kroger's Technology Store Ideas
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Kroger's Technology Store Ideas

Kroger is building the grocery store of the futureby Kate Taylor ....An overview of a number of technologies that Kroger is testing in real stores .... Have seen...

Economist on BlockChain Trust
From The Eponymous Pickle

Economist on BlockChain Trust

Well done.  Non technical.   A conversation I had with a financial technology expert made this clear:The great chain of being sure about thingsThe technology behind...

Data Disruption Stories
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Data Disruption Stories

Just making my way through:  Data Disruption: 33 experts tell their stories.  Hardly secrets, but Free and nicely done.   Non technical.    Would suggest any manager...

Google Open Sources their Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Open Sources their Machine Learning

 Have seen a demo of an earlier version of this.  Was impressed by the visual approach, which can lead to better understanding by decision makers.  Recall we also...

Why Simple Brands Win
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Simple Brands Win

In the HBR.    Good piece on the topic that has been of considerable impact in CPG.  But the effect is broader than that.  Points out the increasing watch paid"...

GE Aviation and the Industrial Internet
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GE Aviation and the Industrial Internet

I was just introduced to:GE AviationGE Aviation is a world-leading provider of jet and turboprop engines, components and integrated systems for commercial, military...

Integral Analytics for Smart Grids
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Integral Analytics for Smart Grids

Brought to my attention: Integral Analytics.   Continuing an examination." ... When is the best time to rely on IA software?…when accuracy matters…Utilities face...

Future of Money Newsletter
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Future of Money Newsletter

O'Reilly is offering a future of money newsletter.  They usually do a good job.  This has come up in several think tank interactions lately.  Worth a further look...

Chunking and MicroLearning tied to Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chunking and MicroLearning tied to Services

Interesting piece by Steve Cushing.   Can this also be translated into services as they are delivered in assistants?   And how are they then combined into things...
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