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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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Mathematics of Poker
Some recent exposure to card game theory led me to this WSJ article. " ... This growth over the past decade has been accompanied by a profound change in how the...
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Sharing Location Data
A Secure Location Data Locker: " ... OpenPaths is a secure data locker for personal location information .... Using our mobile apps you can track your location,...
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Government Controlling Your Car
In Forbes: A demonstration about how you can hack into an automobile via a government mandated port and perform some very worrisome actions. Hackers and the...
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Die Empty
Todd Henry of Accidential Creative's curiously named new book: Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day is available for pre-order. Link to read chapter 1 free...
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Big Data Theory and Analytics
Big Data Analytics at Microsoft Research. From a recent workshop there. " ... “The top-level takeaway for attendees was that big-data analytics is an area where...
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Google's IT Mission Statement
In Forbes: A view of where they are going and the kinds of empowerment being developed. Google CIO Ben Fried speaks: " ... Fried and his leadership team defined...
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Data Mining for the Midsize Business
In the large enterprise we constructed a number of datamining efforts that looked to classify solutions based on measurements we had gathered. One popular technique...
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Confronting Neuroscam
Roger Dooley author of Brainfluence, seeks to answer a number of the criticisms that have emerged recently about neuromarketing methods in the nontechnical press...
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George Dyson on the Decision Problem
Historian of science George Dyson in The Edge. " ... The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is...
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On Innovation Performance
Bain & Company on the topic. Very well done. Taking measure is very important. " ... Innovation is one of the most popular acts in business, but one of the...
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Robots as Army Squad Members
Not unexpected. A play on the drone idea, but with a higher element of cooperation. Which should require a higher level of autonomy and AI. " .... The U.S. Army...
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Generating Infographics
Have had cause to look at how to effectively and cheaply generate infographics. I have criticized the infographics form a number of times here, but do like the...
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Georgia Tech MOOC
A good example of how universities are starting to integrate online courses with other offerings. What is its implication more broadly to the University system...
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3D Mapping Interiors
In Wired: A camera that can map an interior space and digitize it. An impressive ability that I can think of some retail uses for. " ... This fall, MatterPort...
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Deriving Visual Structure
Every line in the Novel: The Great Gatsby, as an infographic. The future of writing? Or a better understanding of structure in unstructured data? Here mostly...
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Wal-Mart to Speed its Site
Wal-Mart labs has acquired a startup to speed its web site operation. More serious site improvements are being integrated by Wal-Mart, emphasizing mobile platforms...
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Wolfram Creative Community
Of Interest ... Wolfram announces a crowdsourced community for their users:" ... Wolfram Community is the go-to place to discuss questions and issues relatingWolfram...
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Predictive Analytics Watch Outs
In the article they say these are 'screw ups', and I agree. I think they are more broadly applicable than just to what is called 'predictive analytics' today...
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CFOs Thinking Fast
Brought to my attention by a collaborator. I am a believer in quantitative analytic thinking and a critic of intuitive flash thinking, so obviously agree, ...
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