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Wal-Mart Embraces Immersive VR Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Embraces Immersive VR Learning

Good piece with useful details of the effort.   Consider the volume of training required.   Was involved with some sales training efforts, but this takes it quite...

New CCPA Addresses Dark Patterns
From The Eponymous Pickle

New CCPA Addresses Dark Patterns

First I had heard of this, the definition of  'dark patterns' seems quite loose. California Passes Regulation Banning 'Dark Patterns' Under Landmark Privacy Law...

Towards Deception Detection? In Humans, in Machines? In Crowds?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Deception Detection? In Humans, in Machines? In Crowds?

Following this in the Language Log Blog for some time.  We even looked at large databases of human comments on products. But could such comments really be marked...

TensorFlow3D and Audio
From The Eponymous Pickle

TensorFlow3D and Audio

 More on Google 3D Scene understanding inTensorFlow3D  with links to audio.   Quite interesting, why not build a broader notion of context?   Like the direction...

Future of Today's Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Today's Retail

 All will have an impact, demise no, efficiency yes. The future of retail: Do robots, A.I., and AR spell demise for stores?   By Jeremy Kaplan, in DigitalTrends...

Measuring Microfailures (Again)
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Microfailures (Again)

Not really a new thing, but thinking about effectively measuring them is.    Which we attempted to deal with directly. ... Elsevier:  Business Horizons   Volume...

Good Overview of Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Good Overview of Blockchain

 Very nice non-technical video overview.   Passing this on for a talk I am giving. What is BLOCKCHAIN? The best explanation of blockchain technology6 minute Youtube...

Fewer UK Troops, More Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fewer UK Troops, More Tech

Another inevitable thing.   How do we make sure the decisions are applied in the right way? Fewer Troops, but More Tech: U.K. Military Downsizes as it Shifts to...

Microsoft Launches Identity Platform on Bitcoin’s Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Launches Identity Platform on Bitcoin’s Blockchain

Via Walter Riker.    Microsoft is working a number of strategies in identity I am exploring. Microsoft Launches Identity Platform on Bitcoin’s BlockchainBy Emmanuel...

Unilever on Our Brave New Post Pandemic Work Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever on Our Brave New Post Pandemic Work Future

Lots of future predictions, here from the CPG world we studied. Fit for the postpandemic future: Unilever’s Leena Nair on reinventing how we workAs Chief HumanSent...

Anomaly Detection
From The Eponymous Pickle

Anomaly Detection

Humans in conversation also look for anomalies to build a model of the interaction and its direction and value. Explainable AI (XAI) design for unsupervised deep...

DARPA Subterranean Challenge
From The Eponymous Pickle

DARPA Subterranean Challenge

 Always intriguing, how can robotic systems autonomously navigate complex and messy environments, like virtual tunnels, caves, underground urban environments, or...

Chipotle Wants to use Autonomous Nuro Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chipotle Wants to use Autonomous Nuro Delivery

           Surprising to me, given the number of delivery services out there.   Note the use of Nuro, which many retailers have tested.   Still...

Lip Reading Software for Messaging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lip Reading Software for Messaging

 Intriguing idea.   An air gap indeed, but secure? Lip-Reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure MessagesUniversity of California News,  Lorena...

Technology Will Create Many Jobs, Can we fill them?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology Will Create Many Jobs, Can we fill them?

The considerable challenge.   Adaptable workers, processes and systems will be required.Technology Will Create Millions of Jobs. The Problem Will Be to Find Workers...

Quantum Computing for Chemical Characteristics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing for Chemical Characteristics

An local example of the use of quantum simulation.UC Chemists Use Supercomputers to Understand SolventsUniversity of Cincinnati News, Michael Miller, March 19,University...

Enhancing Exoskeletons
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enhancing Exoskeletons

Interesting approaches to add AI to exoskeletal robotics solutions.  Broad applications?Engineers Combine AI, Wearable Cameras in Self-Walking Robotic Exoskeletons...

Amazon Lookout for Metrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Lookout for Metrics

This was just pointed out to me today  'Amazon Launches Lookout for Metrics in AWS '.    As described this seems quite useful.  Detecting anomalies can be doneAmazon...

Battlefield History Training and Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Battlefield History Training and Simulation

 Certainly not a new thing, saw and participated in such wargaming simulations as early as the late 70's with very advanced graphics.  But was clearly not whatVirtual...

Consumer Goods Simulation and Digital Twins
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Goods Simulation and Digital Twins

This article points out that simulation can be essential in dealing with the understanding of consumer goods.  Even mentions the idea of  'digital twins' as a model...
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