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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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Shopping in Virtual Reality
Spent some time looking at how people might shop using virtual reality. In particular was part of a retail innovation group that looked at Second Life for this...
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Linear vs Jackknife Regression
A technical and practical piece on the topic. I recall a project in the enterprise that could have used this explanation. The idea is not used often enough,...
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Expanding Gannt Modeling
More dimensions applied to the Gannt chart. Knowledge Cubes they are calling it. From Metier. Inspired by Tufte. Its certainly an expansion of data in the process...
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Designing Wearables
On Wearable design. Do people have to re-learn how to wear, and utilize a watch. Or has it become pure ornamentation for a few?
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IKEA to Sell Furniture that Charges Devices
At least with Android devices. I am a long time follower of office design that embeds technology. Despite how that is seemingly becoming obsolete. Was unaware...
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Keys to Presentation and Storytelling
In Presentation Zen: Have not visited for some time. Good thoughts. " ... The key to success with presentation—and storytelling in general—is to focus not on...
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Zakta Search and Social Intelligence
I went back to look at Zakta, a company formed by a number of former colleagues. A few years ago I had cause to take a deeper dive. Now looking again. ...
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Challenges of Synchronizing Marketing and Technology
MIT Tech Review: Some of the motivations and approaches behind cognitive approaches that address delivering intelligence. Thoughtful piece. Noticing these"...
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Big Data Strategy
Teradata Magazine on Big Data Strategy. Nicely done, readily scannable information and graphics. Useful statistics and detail. A number of useful case studies...
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A Short History of Big Data
Overview by Bernard Marr. Really about data systems in general. Not enough about the actual distinctions between data Big or otherwise, because there are not that...
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Palindrome Games at Bletchley Park
Brought to my attention in the Language Log, Which points to a much longer piece on Palindrome construction games played by the code breakers at Bletchley Park...
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Exploiting the non Randomness of People
Fascinating piece in the Wolfram blog on methods to exploit the inability of people to create random patterns, using the example of the 'Where's Waldo' search game...
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Design Sketching and Coding
From IEEE: A favorite topic, how do we take the informal sketches of a non graphic artist and convert them into knowledge with precision? See also poston CogSketch...
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Useful Data Science Tutorials
Have mentioned this resource before, but I passed it on to a colleague today and see it is worth mentioning again. A resource of key short tutorials for data scientists...
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Enterprise Data Usage
Statement of a growing problem. Recently saw this in a project. More about the kind of and completeness of data rather than the volume of data."As the volumeEnterprises...
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Fembots and the Gender of AI
Interesting piece on the presented gender of AI and notably robotics as it is delivered today. Why is this often presented as female? I think this will change...
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Tech Megatrends and IT
In CIOInsight. A good survey on the influence of tech megatrends on IT. Obvious examples like Bringing your own devices in the enterprise.
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Spontaneous Discovery
Thoughtful piece work a scan from the Tom Peters Blog:Surprise, Transformation & Excellence through “Spontaneous Discovery”:A Personal Saga, this is a revision...
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Book: Big Data Revolution is Big Data at work.
Just received a preview copy of: Big Data Revolution: What farmers, doctors and insurance agents teach us about discovering big data patterns by Rob Thomas and...
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