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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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Google Acquires Rangespan
Addressing supply chain management. " .... Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping...
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Big Data Viewed by Philosphers of Mathematics
In a very philosphical, long, but non technical piece from the AMS, provocative. A methodological danger? Worth reading. Is Big Data Enough? A Reflection on the...
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Truth Box
Dan Ariely presents the traveling truth box. How might this create a baseline for understanding our conception of truth? How does it change the behavioral...
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Data Visualization: Food Availability
Another interesting Tableau example. Here food availability. I like the interactive aspects of the visual. " ... Graham Douglas of The Economist shows us how...
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Life Forms in the Internet of Things
Security chief of In-Q-Tel suggests that entities in the Internet of Things are life forms. " ... They are immortal in the sense that they can continue to function...
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Watson Cognitive to be Included in University Curricula
Press release: " ... In Fall, 2014, New Courses Will Inspire University Students to Build Apps Infused with Watson's Intelligence While Gaining the Entrepreneurial...
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Data Provenance for Analytics
A short piece in the CACM that points to a larger paper. That larger paper requires subscription. I am using this for some work on metadata uses. ProvenanceFull...
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Rules for Shopper Privacy
From the recent IDC Retail Insights, in CGT: The customer stands center stage in omnichannel retail. Earning the privilege of relationships, relevance, and reciprocity...
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Who is a Data Scientist?
So what are they? I have been doing work in this area for a long time, but the term for the practitioner has changed often. Its about working with lots of data...
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Thinking like a Programmer
In the CACM recently. There is real value in being able to think like a programmer. It's like being able to think like an accountant. Logical, precision, and...
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IT Consumerization Survey
Good look at the topic. With a slide show about the idea and a number of fallacies involved. " .... Business and IT decision-makers have a strong preference...
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Pocket Molecular Sensor
MJ Perry reports on this pocket spectrometer. Connectable to a smartphone/ Another example of advanced sensors, that will eventually add additional data to the...
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See Through Augmented Reality Screens
A competitive approach to ideas like Google Glass. Wearable displays with floating screens. But with built in augmented reality implications. FromMetaio company...
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Conjoin Analytics
Was introducted to this interesting company. " ... Cojoin: Analytics Combined! .... Cojoin combines marketing and analytics data to quickly visualize overall...
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Eyes Sensing Motion
In Nature: " ... A vast project to map neural connections in the mouse retina may have answered the long-standing question of how the eyes detect motion. ... "How...
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Introduction to the Internet of Things
Good overview of the topic. We heard about this idea years ago in work with MIT. It remains a key future concept. But also a complex set of requirements andwhat...
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Origin of Trancendant Singularity
I had thought that Kurzweil was the originator of the mathematical term singularity in the Transcendence sense, but the Wikipedia writes: " ... The first use of...
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Augmented Reality Toy Competition
I like the idea of connecting AR to toys. It implies the connection of game dynamics as well. Can we then connect the ideas for serious purpose? A competition...
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R is Good for Business
Or, I think, how it is used. As with all tools. In Fastcolabs. " ... “When someone develops a new predictive model or a new visualization, they don’t just publish...
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