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Can AI Sniff the Roses, Predict the Smell?
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Can AI Sniff the Roses, Predict the Smell?

Spent some time in examining artificial olfaction for the coffee business. Here we are looking at predicting what something smells or tastes like.   The general...

Optimization Assisting the User of Large Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimization Assisting the User of Large Databases

Using tools like machine learning to adapt how we do complex operations, like analyzing increasingly large databases for complex uses.  Here work at MIT in this...

Some Hospitals Tracking Covid-19 by Adding Sensors to Employees' Badges
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Some Hospitals Tracking Covid-19 by Adding Sensors to Employees' Badges

Makes sense to add sensors to track internal status of employees.  Could likely be linked to networks of contacts outside the hospital.Some Hospitals Tracking Covid...

Picking Locks from Audio
From The Eponymous Pickle

Picking Locks from Audio

That is picking locks of the physical, notched metal kind.  Seems a machine learning kind of approach would be possible. Learn from the sounds emitted when opening...

GigaOM re File Storage to Scale
From The Eponymous Pickle

GigaOM re File Storage to Scale

A project led me to this, saving it for later use.   Scaling should always be in your mind for problems.  Not that some projects are not one-off for tests, butKey...

More Satellite Based Broadband Tests
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Satellite Based Broadband Tests

Further competition in Sat based broadband,  here from SpaceX Starlink.   Early data speeds from Beta tests.SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads...

Classifying Images with Quantum
From The Eponymous Pickle

Classifying Images with Quantum

Sounds remarkable and instructive about how quantum can be used for some kinds of machine learning approaches.Google researchers use quantum computing to help improve...

Kroger Tests and Provides Clinics
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Kroger Tests and Provides Clinics

Widening services that traditional grocery provides,Kroger unveils COVIDCare Plus coronavirus test program for employersKroger Health solution includes home testing...

Autonomous Cars and Railroad Crossings
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Cars and Railroad Crossings

Much of my extended family has worked for the railroads in the US and Europe.    So the form of transport has always interested me.  How do autonomous vehiclesHow...

Advancing Remote Work
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Advancing Remote Work

Microsoft continues advances for remote, multiple person conferencingMicrosoft's plan to make video calls less miserableIna Fried, author of Loginscreenshot from...

Microsoft  Back in the Phone Biz
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Back in the Phone Biz

Surprising perhaps, microsoft dives back into phones, with a not completely novel foldable 2 screen phone.  Real practicality or just the novelty?   Expensive,The...

Facebook Releases Deepfakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Releases Deepfakes

The more data the better.  Negative examples are also useful to proof the model, examine its edges,  detect movement from the model later.   I don't believe inFacebook...

Why Computing Belongs within the Social Sciences
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Computing Belongs within the Social Sciences

Thoughtful piece in the ACM.  Full text at the link. While computers started from technology, it has evolved unpredictably into something also very deeply and even...

IBM Takes Lead in ABI Research's Industrial Blockchain-as-a-Service
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IBM Takes Lead in ABI Research's Industrial Blockchain-as-a-Service

IBM continues to push blockchain technology adoption.IBM Takes the Lead in ABI Research's Industrial Blockchain-as-a-Service Competitive AssessmentOYSTER BAY, N...

Summit Supercomputing Cracking Covids Code
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Summit Supercomputing Cracking Covids Code

Saw the supercomputing systems tested with combinatorial problems.  Will this be a coup for understanding Covid?Has Summit Cracked Covid's Code?IEEE SpectrumMark...

Quantum Computing Breakthrough?
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough?

Much more re technical aspects at the bottom:Quantum Computing Breakthrough as Scientists Find Possible Solution to Technology's Biggest HurdleThe Independent (UK)...

Spot Robot Does Disinfection
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Spot Robot Does Disinfection

The perhaps obvious use of robots for disinfection is happening broadly, even with the much touted 'Spot'  from Boston Dynamics.For Robots, It's a Time to Shine...

Quantum Computing Breakthrough?
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough?

Noise an issue, is this a solution?  See article and further link from the click through.Quantum Computing Breakthrough as Scientists Find Possible Solution toThe...

Air Force in Space with AI
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Air Force in Space with AI

More examples of military applications of AI.Air Force Readies Launch of In-Orbit Network to Support AI Applications in SpaceThe Wall Street JournalSara Castellanos...

Canadian AI Research
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Canadian AI Research

Brought to my attention again:Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence The Vector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research...
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