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P&G Launches Brand that kills some Coronaviruses
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P&G Launches Brand that kills some Coronaviruses

A surface cleaner, and its unclear if it is useful for the particular kind of virus involved.   The article talks about that later.  Overall NOT a claim for efficacy...

Next Level of Police Enabling Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Level of Police Enabling Technology

Obvious next step.   I see this is being done with our local police nearby, will look into this and see if I can get a demonstration.Axon Rolls Out the Next Level...

Using Google Earth on More Browsers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Google Earth on More Browsers

In its earlier days we built some training systems that used Google Earth as a hack for backgrounds to show how we manufactured, shipped and sold goods worldwide...

Robots as our Bosses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots as our Bosses

Does not necessarily mean there will soon be android devices wandering the aisles of your workplace.  And most workplaces are measured by goals attained.  Measured...

Should All Children Learn Code?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Should All Children Learn Code?

Nothing wrong with learning coding.   But should it be emphasized for everyone?   Required?   Better to learn more about math and logic.   As coding gets more complex...

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning

KD Nuggets publishes and analyzes the most recent Gartner quadrant analysis. While I am skeptical of this approach, it does have a useful list of participants which...

Wharton on Global Economic Impact of Coronavirus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wharton on Global Economic Impact of Coronavirus

Considerable piece here from Wharton.  Notable for other implications for epidemics and their influence on economic systems.  The embedding of uncertainty in large...

Google Updates DialogFlow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Updates DialogFlow

Seeing augmenting capabilities as virtual agents.   Might also be a means to best think of such agents connecting to human agents.   Makes since in many kinds of...

Building Biometrics National IDs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Biometrics National IDs

Despite the pushback on some of these ideas, I think it inevitable that they will be widely implemented.  Identity is a key aspect of conversational understanding...

Amazon Continues Work on Cashierless Systems
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Amazon Continues Work on Cashierless Systems

Despite some reports that Amazon was decreasing work on cashierless systems:Amazon Opens Cashierless Supermarket in Latest Push to Sell Food in the WSJThe e-commerce...

When Your AI Learns to Lie
From The Eponymous Pickle

When Your AI Learns to Lie

Some very important questions as these methods evolve.AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to LieWe need to understand the kinds of deceptionThis...

Using Business Rules and Expertise
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Using Business Rules and Expertise

Via DSC, what looks to be a good podcast on this topic.  It has been a favorite approach of mine since the beginning.  Narrow machine learning methods can be very...

Magnetoencephalography
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Magnetoencephalography

This approach was just brought again to my attention.  Have been asked how it could be applied to the same kinds of diagnostic queries as EEG.  And if it has ever...

Pepsico Takes Analytics Closer to Consumer
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Pepsico Takes Analytics Closer to Consumer

Fascinating view of what a big, close to the consumer company, is doing to figure out how their marketing works.   A relatively rare mention of ROI as it measures...

On Editing Your Own Self Image
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Editing Your Own Self Image

This came to my attention recently when I was asked for a simple self image to use on a startup web site.  How much should we edit? We have the tools now.  At very...

Framework to Predict Success of Big Data
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Framework to Predict Success of Big Data

In the HBR,  thoughts on predicting the success of Big Data.Use This Framework to Predict the Success of Your Big Data ProjectBy Carsten Lund Pedersen, Thomas Ritter...

Simulation Systems for Manufacturing
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Simulation Systems for Manufacturing

 We broadly did simulations for many applications in manufacturing and beyond, see many posts here at tag below.More Manufacturers Bet on Simulation SoftwareThe...

Algorithm Predicts Corn Yields
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Algorithm Predicts Corn Yields

What seems to be some direct uses of CNN for yield prediction.AI Algorithm Better Predicts Corn YieldBy Illinois ACESFebruary 24, 2020  An interdisciplinary research...

Chess Grandmaster Says AI will Destroy Most Jobs
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Chess Grandmaster Says AI will Destroy Most Jobs

Kasparov is hardly an expert at jobs,  but  major changes are likely to occur.The chess grandmaster who was beaten by a computer predicts that AI will 'destroy'...

Are the Category Captains Still in Charge?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Are the Category Captains Still in Charge?

I remember the term as used in early days in CPG.  But is the decision  intelligence now migrating elsewhere?   I see it every day in my local Kroger.Should grocers...
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