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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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Augmented Pixels Example for Theater Engagement
Daria Gaioshko of the Odessa, Ukraine company Augmented Pixels, sends along this new example of a promotional App for user engagement at a cinema. I am now testing...
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Detecting Criminal Activity with Phone Data
Interesting example in Technology Review. We used related approaches to detect patterns of innovative communications. " ... Law enforcement agencies are turning...
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A Dropbox for the Internet of Things.
In Technology Review: Simple idea, easy to play with. " ... With the advent of the Internet of things, potentially billions of devices will report data about...
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Baseball Scheduling
Scheduling complex sports events, with many restrictions and preferences, is a known difficult problem to automate. New work at Johns Hopkins addresses the problem...
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Free Data Analytics Handbook
Looked at in Machine Learning Mastery. " ... What is the difference between a Data Analyst and a Data Scientist and what type of work do they do all day?TheseThe...
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Simulated Design in Fashion
In DW: Reminds me of similar methods, in completely different domains, like packaging design, which we experimented with for years. " .. .Soft wear: computer...
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On Different Goals for Information Visualizaton
Just brought to my attention. Excellent paper. Different goals and different looks for information visualization and statistical graphics. By Andrew Gelman...
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Luxottica to Make Google Frames
From a local company many of us have worked with." ... Google is hoping to make its Internet-connected eyewear more stylish as part of a partnership with the parent...
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Social Robotics and AI
What are the implications for improving AI? In an internet of things and people ... with things getting more intelligent and being able to take the initiative...
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A Mess in Communications Among an Internet of Things
In CWorld: Of interest, in particular standards are key to making this approach work. Lack of interoperability, in particular in home automation, are key problems...
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Twitter Classifications
As part of a recent project about twitter feed relevancy. I found this short mention of content classification of Tweets in the wikipedia. See the link for further...
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Infographic on Workplaces of the Future
Yes, there are useful numbers in this graphic. The topic is very interesting. And has a pointer to the origin of the sources. But I count only 8 readily usable...
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Speedier Checkouts
Always a big labor and satisfaction consideration for physical retail:Kroger takes retail technology of the year:" ... While the bigger retail technology buzz last...
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Visualization of Telecommuting Data
A good data visualization of information about US telecommuting, with a strong ability to interact with the data. In the Tableau Public site. Much better than...
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Shoppers Want More Value
Pretty obvious stuff. Shoppers want an exchange of value. The specific statistics are of interest.Grocery shoppers want more from mobile apps, survey finds ....
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Giving Up Your Right to Sue
In the press recently. Users apparently giving up their right to sue via user agreements. Unclear how binding this is legally, and the broader implications, but...
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Individual Data for Health
In the CACM: Not a new idea, but more value as we leverage analytics against bigger data. Even for our own N=1." ... Consider a new kind of cloud-based app that...
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Mission Critical Lesson from P&G
Edward Burghard comments on the A.G. Lafley speech to the Association of National Advertisers 10-15-2000. Had not seen this, quite good. A Mission Critical....
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Resource Revolution
In McKinsey: Good overview of the challenge. The emergence of a resource revolution to feed the technological changes created by innovation. Lots of needs,...
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