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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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Black Swans and Big Data
In TeraData Mag: Good piece that looks at the inevitability of these events, and how Data can still help. Leads to the suggestion that predictive analytics will...
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Brainlike AI Circuits
In CWorld: My contention is still that we do not know enough about the operation of the brain for this to be AI. Neural nets, which only roughly mimic the brain...
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The Hilltop Coke Ad
I am a bit of an advertising and marketing history buff. Met a few Mad Men era people while working at the world's largest marketer. One told me that the series...
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Google to Update its Cardboard VR
This experiment showed how very simple Virtual Reality (VR) could be be delivered very cheaply and simply, even with a cardboard device. The approach works, demonstrates...
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Digitally Connected Grocer
In Progressive Grocer: Fairly obvious points, now how do we respond? " ... Defining the 'Connected' Consumer .... Grocery industry being pushed into the future...
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L'Oreal 3D Printing Skin
In BBC Tech:French cosmetics firm L'Oreal is teaming up with bio-engineering start-up Organovo to 3D-print human skin. ... It said the printed skin would be used...
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High Precision 3D Printers
I have looked at several 3D printers now, mostly on the consumer end, and their precision was poor. Now new printer examples are emerging, with higher precision...
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Apps Emerging to Get Car Data
In Technology Review: " ... Courting App Makers to Unlock Your Car’s Powerful Data Trove Startups like Automatic are trying to interest developers in gadgets...
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Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
A technical look, by David Barber, A free online version. Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber is an ebook that is designed for final-year undergraduates...
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Neuromarketing Practical Advances
A little late, but a good podcast on the topic:Roger Dooley writes, introducting their podcast:" ... In the past, Elissa Moses was Chief Research Officer with the...
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Google Seeking Ad Fraud
In Adage. A visit to a Google site that is devoted to identifying Ad Fraud. All this has evolved quite a bit. Been attacked a few times myself. Now the attackers...
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SPSS as an Enhancement to R
It was just pointed out to me that SPSS can be linked to R. Had known this but not the details. Worth a closer look. Upcoming Webinar on May 26 on the topic. ...
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Google Testing Buy Button
In Retailwire: Is this the ultimate challenge for retail? Everyone searches. So making the buy as easy as possible is powerful. Embedded discussion is useful...
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Sample R Packages for Input, Wrangling, Visuals
A nice survey by Sharon Machlis, it is always good to have examples of things you know you need to do, in a language that is relatively new to you. This is aGreat...
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Hyper Personalization
Interesting startup direction ... Reminds me of case based reasoning approaches ....Analytics passed a major milestone on the road to ubiquity last week with the...
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How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate
From the HBR in 2011, and I may have posted this before, but found it again looking for innovation examples. Worth repeating. Mentioning now VA guru Bob McDonald...
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Eye Data During Programming for Useful for Retail
Establishment of a database of eye movement during programming tasks. Why not do the same thing during other common tasks, like online or physical shopping? ...
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Business Model Innovation
Not the same thing as BPM, which I prefer because it deals with business specifics. But in reading this, BMI could be a good place to start. Perhaps linked to...
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Watson Academy: Cognitive Computing
IBM MOOC: Cognitive Computing -- Question Answering Technologies behind IBM WatsonTrailer" ... We have designed a massive open online course (MOOC) on the question...
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