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Follow a Tuna on the Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Follow a Tuna on the Blockchain

An exampled of the simplest use of blockchains.  Follow a Tuna on the Blockchain.  from Wired.

Seeking Cognitive Infrastructures for Process ML
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Cognitive Infrastructures for Process ML

Have been reviewing work we did with machine learning as far back as 1998.  We initially installed and used inductive techniques to learn and adapt rules from data...

Kroger Teams with Alibaba in First Int'l Venture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Teams with Alibaba in First Int'l Venture

Big news.   Getting Kroger's premium private label into China. Will there bean exchange of technology as well?   See Alibaba's Tmall effort.Kroger teams with Amazon...

AI Hasn't Happened Yet
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Hasn't Happened Yet

A thoughtful piece.   We have experienced much of this.   It has not happened, but we have achied some new hints as to directions.Artificial Intelligence — The ...

Potential of Drone Swarms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Potential of Drone Swarms

We examined, and here Wired debunks their current capabilities.  Teleoperation is not an autonomous swarm.  But if cars can be autonomous, how soon can swarms?Drone...

50 Plus Examples of Business Blockchains
From The Eponymous Pickle

50 Plus Examples of Business Blockchains

Interesting to see the breadth,   here the descriptions are not consistent, but instructive.  'Taking over' is an overstatement.  'Showing they can be useful' would...

Books only Physical Media with Growing Sales
From The Eponymous Pickle

Books only Physical Media with Growing Sales

Found this remarkable since I have been radically downsizing my own physical library.PwC's Entertainment and Media Outlook in Strategy+Business Why books are the...

Virtualitics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtualitics

 I had previously mentioned Virtualitics here.  Currently examining.  Here is a new short presentation:Michael Amori, Virtualitics' CEO presents at Fintech Innovation...

Modeling User Journeys
From The Eponymous Pickle

Modeling User Journeys

Have had a few explorations into 'User Journey's.  Its a trace of how people travel through coded interaction. From where they begin, what choices they make and...

Health Wristband
From The Eponymous Pickle

Health Wristband

Have heard of a number of related applications, gets back to the applications that run on these to provide value.   Most notable recent Apple monitors via a watch...

Animating Sprites
From The Eponymous Pickle

Animating Sprites

We worked with very early versions of this idea to animate prototypes of advertisements.AI-driven animations will make your digital avatars come to lifeYou've never...

More on Ford Exoskeletons
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Ford Exoskeletons

Not only that we will use Robots, but that we will become robots.Exoskeletons Debut at Ford Factories in ZDNet  By Charlie OsborneFord plans to offer exoskeleton...

Intelligent Automation Starting Simply
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Automation Starting Simply

ts not general intelligence, its intelligence that augments and automates business process.  Including the design of that process.  RPA (Robotic Process Automation)...

Research on Sound in Shopping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Research on Sound in Shopping

We researched the idea of how sound changed shopping behavior,  in laboratory and real store environments.  Ambient background music can create mood.  Focused multidimensional...

Survey: Understanding the Agile Workplace
From The Eponymous Pickle

Survey: Understanding the Agile Workplace

McKinsey Survey.  Definitions and Organzations.The agile manager     By Aaron De Smet in McKinseyWho manages in an agile organization? And what exactly do theyThe...

The IOT and Smart Factories
From The Eponymous Pickle

The IOT and Smart Factories

Notes on IOT, AI and Smart Factories     - FranzDraft Outline for an upcoming presentation to a global company ....In the earliest days of AI our management come...

Replacing Apps with Neural Nets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Replacing Apps with Neural Nets

Well perhaps some of them.  We wrote neural nets from the ground up before they existed in conveniently usable libraries, and they are good for some things, but...

What is Machine Learning?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is Machine Learning?

Straightforward introduction.How to Think About Machine Learning    by Jason Brownlee Machine learning is a large and interdisciplinary field of study.You can achieve...

Leveraging Social Determinants of Heath
From The Eponymous Pickle

Leveraging Social Determinants of Heath

As I understand this,  the high ROI comes from decreasing unnecessary costs.   Which shows sometimes simple data analysis can provide value.  Just make sure toWhat...

Watson and Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson and Healthcare

IBM responds to recent suggestions that they have not made enough progress on Watson for Healthcare.   And that the bet on Watson has not been successful.   Interesting...
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