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Tuya Introduces Family level security for Smart Homes
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Tuya Introduces Family level security for Smart Homes

Via RFID Journal, have experimented  with their IOT offerings.Tuya Smart Intros Smart-Home IOT Security System Using Facial Recognition Tuya Smart, which produces...

Alexa Patents a form of Healthcare Assistance?
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Alexa Patents a form of Healthcare Assistance?

Only a patent, so its hard to say where this might go.  Look at the link for more details.   Implying a diagnosis and  prescribing a remedy seems a dangerous direction...

State of US Autonomous Trucking
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State of US Autonomous Trucking

From McKinsey.     Have now seen two tests of the concept.  Impressive results. Yet regulation has not caught up. Distraction or disruption? Autonomous trucks gain...

Goal Setting, Nudges and Machine Learning
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Goal Setting, Nudges and Machine Learning

Interesting study-based results.   Now should the same approach be used for training and goal setting of machine learning?   Not just the ML of current systems,...

Deep Learning vs Reinforcement Learning
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Deep Learning vs Reinforcement Learning

Short excerpt, worth reading the whole thing.  But instructive as it is:Artificial Intelligence: What's The Difference Between Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning...

AI Booming,  Accelerating
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AI Booming, Accelerating

TheVerge reports and comments on the boom.  No indication of a winter here.  Notable also is the broad world-wide boom, in the past expansion it was US, Japan and...

Predictions Cheaper, Faster, with Risk
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Predictions Cheaper, Faster, with Risk

In Strategy+Business.  Provocative thoughts of what AI is.  It is a prediction.  But also the prediction of a number of other (meta) things:  The future, some solution...

Python Tricks
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Python Tricks

Beginner Python Coding tricks.  Whenever you start a new language, its nice to see lots of relatively simple examples that relate to the kinds of things you might...

Newsletters from the HBR, Sloan
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Newsletters from the HBR, Sloan

I see that HBR has set up some 15 technology and management topic newsletters.  This is similar to what MIT has done with a number of topics.  These newsletters...

Changing Nature of Retirement
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Changing Nature of Retirement

Correspondent Steve King of Small Business Labs on the Changing Nature of Retirement.   Its a topic their blog has covered many times,  especially with relation...

AI Driven Marketing for CPG
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AI Driven Marketing for CPG

Examples are CPG Food.    We worked on optimization examples of this for years, now the approach is broadening and getting closer to high level decision makers....

Alexa Hunches for Smart Homes
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Alexa Hunches for Smart Homes

Just started experimenting with Alex Hunches, a method that claims to makes suggestions (Nudges from a Nudge engine?)   Can a skill tune your hunches to a context...

Finishing Your Sentences with Common Sense
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Finishing Your Sentences with Common Sense

Yes, it's one way to tailor common-sense-driven sentences. Here some snippets of work underway in the space, starting with a NYT article, then links to technical...

Optimizing Infrastructure Resources
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Optimizing Infrastructure Resources

Optimizing Infrastructure Through AIMakes sense that Cisco would be into this, nicely explained below.   I like the visualization of the process.  OptimizationAI...

Tracking Location and Activity
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Tracking Location and Activity

Further, related to my current data and activity investigation, its also very useful to see how Google uses Location History Tracking to infer aspects of behavior...

Whats Blockchain Good For?
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Whats Blockchain Good For?

Nothing?  Well at least not what they expected, or were willing to reveal.  Still, negative examples are useful.Blockchain: What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing...

Asset Management
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Asset Management

Management in context and some forecast of future context is powerful." ... Achieving digital alpha in asset managementThe ability to generate value through digitization...

Asking Questions to Gather Knowledge
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Asking Questions to Gather Knowledge

The Game of Questions, once again looking at a means of questioning to gather knowledge ... we explored this idea from a game perspective.Back in 2013, posted about...

Nielsen and Microsoft Strategic Data Alliance
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Nielsen and Microsoft Strategic Data Alliance

Making data more intelligently available to analytics.   Integrating data assets.Nielsen, Microsoft Unveil Strategic Data AllianceNielsen and Microsoft have jointly...

AINow Publishes Recommendations
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AINow Publishes Recommendations

Followup with AINow,  promoting regulation and transparency in the AI development space.After a Year of Tech Scandals, Our 10 Recommendations for AI  (Outline Overview)...
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