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Personalization of Cyberattacks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalization of Cyberattacks

Disconcerting news in thisThe New Attack Surface is Your Life   in Andreessen Horowitzby Martin Casado  a 19 minute talk and supporting Deck, NotesFrom business...

Advances in Event-Based Cameras
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in Event-Based Cameras

This was brought to my attention based on a project we addressed some time ago, the term 'event based camera'  was brought up as a potential solution.  To address...

Microsoft Defender Expands
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Defender Expands

Been a user of Defender for some time now, as long as it has been available..  It seems to work,   at least in the fact that no malware has gotten through recently...

Autonomous Cars and the Drive Thru
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Cars and the Drive Thru

A considerable discussion and walk-through example of the potential interactions of drive thrus and autonomous cars.  With detailed consideration of the business...

Self Checkout is Harder than it Should be
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Checkout is Harder than it Should be

More on the use of the automated checkout process and related issues, with links to a survey and review:Shoppers have a love/hate relationship with self-checkouts...

Faster Lab Results with Phone to Lab Chip Connect
From The Eponymous Pickle

Faster Lab Results with Phone to Lab Chip Connect

Faster lab test results for infectious diseases.UC Smartphone Lab Delivers Test Results in 'Spit' SecondUniversity of CincinnatiMichael MillerResearchers at the...

New Combinatorial Optimization Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Combinatorial Optimization Algorithm

Combinatorics are of particular interest to me, are part of any kind of complex process choice problem.  Note the use of annealing, being used in some quantum methods...

EU Rules for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

EU Rules for AI

Will be interesting to see how such regulations evolve.Fear of Big Brother Guides EU Rules on AIAgence France-PresseFebruary 17, 2020The artificial intelligence...

Classification with Naive Bayes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Classification with Naive Bayes

Good piece, behind a paywall but worth a look.  Technical.Comparing a variety of Naive Bayes classification algorithmsComprehensive list of formulas for text classification...

Reinforcement Learning Improvements
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinforcement Learning Improvements

Very interesting item.   Quite technical.  I like the hint of using pools or teams of agents to solve reinforcement problems.   Brings to mind the idea of process...

Robot Comedy for Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Comedy for Data?

Ultimately we will have to be able do a better job of getting data based on reactions to proposals.  Is standup comedy using robots a model of how to get this kind...

A Look at Aibo Robot Dog Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Aibo Robot Dog Programming

Have mentioned this a number of times, we saw it demonstrated in Japan when it first came out, now more, specifically about how it can be programmed.    Note again...

Ground Penetrating Radar for Driving?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ground Penetrating Radar for Driving?

This is unexpected.   But it has been known that weather is a problem with classic methods, now will ground penetrating radar solve this problem?MIT’s Ground-Penetrating...

E-Mail Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

E-Mail Productivity

Nicely done short look at how to be more productive with too much e-mail.  Tips, tricks and more ... brief too.   In the enterprise, my most read posts were about...

Google Announces Experimental Means to Detect Altered Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Announces Experimental Means to Detect Altered Images

A useful kind of AI, checking out the details.  Still experimental.  How often we be sure of the results?  Looks for specific means of alteration, So will haveHow...

More Smart Speaker Share to China in 201
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Smart Speaker Share to China in 201

While smart speakers are not  'AI assistants' in any  complete sense, they open the way to  such deices in the home and at work.    So stats like this should be...

Military Long Distant Face Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Military Long Distant Face Recognition

I would imagine will be more precise and at longer distances yet,   I have some very impressive sat images, and precise coordinates could simply be shared.   All...

Creating Energy from the Air
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Creating Energy from the Air

Quite a revalelation,  use for LED's, IOT applications?  Electric bacteria create currents out of thin—and thick—airBy Elizabeth Pennisi, in Science Mag Generating...

Soul Machines:  Avatars for AI Presence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Soul Machines: Avatars for AI Presence

Brought to my attention and related to work recent and past.Soul Machines is Humanizing Computing to Better Humanity    Some examples.Democratizing and Disrupting...

Embedding Human Expertise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Embedding Human Expertise

Useful examination of delivering expertise, human and otherwise.Crate and Barrel marries human expertise with tech advances in a new concept store   by MatthewCrate...
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