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Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress
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Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress

Powerful idea.   Here wondering how well the measure of stress works for various crops.Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant StressMIT News,  January 4, 2021...

Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation

Quantum Internet is quickly approaching.   Implications?Fermilab and Partners Achieve Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation  University of Chicago News...

Limitations of a Fremium Approach to Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Limitations of a Fremium Approach to Marketing

Thoughtful examination of the approach of free ... and the idea of freemium. Don’t Count on Free Trials to Win You Customers  in HBR, by Sadat Reza, Dixon Ho, Rich...

Generating Visual Images from Text Descriptions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Generating Visual Images from Text Descriptions

Something we could have used to test visual understanding of products and their use.  OpenAI’s latest neural network creates images from written descriptions  By...

Mining Private Data:  Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mining Private Data: Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?

Schneier has mentioned this as a privacy issue: Just reading the Berkeley BAIR paper that develops this  (see short excerpt below)   And the source technical paper...

Digital Product Development from Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Product Development from Visualization

And forward to product design and development, from visualization. Visualization Adds Transparency to Digital Product DevelopmentFraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)...

Inferring Design Plans from Short Clips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inferring Design Plans from Short Clips

 Currently examining this kind of approach.  Phones are getting these kinds of abilities. Researchers design AI that can infer whole floor plans from short video...

Dream Manipulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dream Manipulation

Now here is some scary.   Or a means of entertainment?   Or creativity enhancement? An MIT Lab Is Building Devices to Hack Your DreamsFrom improving your mood to...

Invite:  Walmart+ Starts up to Compete with Amazon Prime
From The Eponymous Pickle

Invite: Walmart+ Starts up to Compete with Amazon Prime

 Received invite today: Meet Walmart+    FAQThe membership that helps you save more time & money.Only $12.95/month or $98/yearStart 15-day free trial  .... 

New Learning on SolarWinds
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Learning on SolarWinds

Schneier summarizes the NYT detailed article on the SolarWinds hack.   The NYT article is firewalled, and the Schneier article also includes a number of usefulLatest...

QR Code Comeback?
From The Eponymous Pickle

QR Code Comeback?

We were very early experimenters and appliers, so this caught my eye.  Good story in current context, With further expert opinion in retail.   Will it last post...

Monitoring in-production ML models
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Monitoring in-production ML models

Useful and detailed look at real world problems with Sagemaker Model Monitor.  Good graphical views.   Somewhat but practically technical.Monitoring in-production...

AI Solves Quantum Chemistry Problem
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AI Solves Quantum Chemistry Problem

 Heard this posed an an early 'monte carlo' simulation problem which had potential for solutions with quantum.AI Solves Schrödinger's Equation, a Fundamental Problem...

Small Data, Short Term Global Risks, GRR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Small Data, Short Term Global Risks, GRR

 Nicely put, perhaps on every risk analysis we should list these calculate how they might be of threat to our contexts.   At the link below some good charts and...

Looking Under the Skin
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking Under the Skin

 More advances in healthcare imaging capabilities.  A Quick Look Under the SkinTechnical University of Munich (Germany)Researchers at the Technical University of...

Using Virtual Backgrounds
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Using Virtual Backgrounds

Hiding the mess is a good reason.  Though other than plain backgrounds do quickly get tedious.(OWL is a Business Partner of Zoom)31 Free Zoom Virtual Backgrounds...

C by GE Turns to Cync
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C by GE Turns to Cync

 Wish that this had happened so strongly when I was connected, nice to see them back connected to IOT Home.  But will this direction survive?C by GE gets rebranded...

No Driver on Board: Autonomous Trucks to Take to the Road
From The Eponymous Pickle

No Driver on Board: Autonomous Trucks to Take to the Road

 Evan Ackerman presents a good overview of the state of autonomous trucking.   Door to door, with lots of links to background information.    This should get us...

Towards Battery Free IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Battery Free IOT

A particular challenge for IOT devices.Battery-Free IoT: These Tiny Printable Computers Harvest Energy From Radio WavesIn Forbes by John KoetsierThe Wiliot Internet...

Identity in Your Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Identity in Your Smartphone

Working some related topics here. we have a considerable opportunity now to have a universal device that can provide identity.   Need to make the credentials secure...
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