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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Big Data for Real World Problems
Forbes writes about a number of real world problems solved by Big Data solutions. Some good very non technical examples. Ends with a good set of general suggestions...
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Watch the Date and Patience Please
Forms of this blog have been around since 2001. Now, some 8300 plus posts. It covers both my thoughts, history and sometimes breaking news in information technology...
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Now Let's Put Watson to Work
More on IBM's Watson AI ecosystem. I have enrolled. recall I have talked about our own work in this area, which mirrored IBM work in our enterprise. Seemuchtheir...
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Google Buys More Robotics
They buy Bigdog robot makers. An MIT spinoff. Another interesting development, see their site which shows some impressive and even scary avatars. Recall Google...
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Wal-Mart Defying Gravity
In HBS Working Knowledge: Some interesting points on dangers to Wal-Mart's future. How can these risks be managed? " ... How much longer will Walmart's business...
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Engagement AI Goes Public in the UK
Not really AI, as I read it, not autonomous, but tele-operation, and the researching of how people would act and interact with local avatar robotics. What these...
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IT as a Growth Engine for CPG
New from the GMA:" ... BCG and GMA study: CPG companies can benefit from viewing IT as a growth engine A large proportion of consumer packaged goods companiesGMA...
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Plots for Cyclical Patterns
A method that is new to me, in Stephen Few's Perceptual Edge blog: Cycle Plots. " ... A cycle plot is a type of line graph that is useful for displaying cyclical...
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Bots Make up Most of Net Traffic
In BBC Tech: About 61% of net traffic is by bots, the study says. Of course bots do different things. One might be reading this blog, another might be part...
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Common Cognitive Traps in Innovation
In the HBR: (Requires free registration): Key point being made is that estimation error can be a key skill for building innovation. Always try to build numerical...
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GS1 Consumer Goods Newsletter
We were long time participating members of the standards body called GS1. I now only sometimes read their writings. Beyond standards they often talk about retail...
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Redefining Supply Chain
As part of a century and a half old, very successful enterprise, we had a supply chain group from well before I arrived there. It is essential to make the modern...
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Flavor Delivery
A classic problem, can flavor be delivered with digital stimulation? Research has been doing on for a long time. Getting to the Bottom of a Digital Lollipop...
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Sensors are Impacting the Supply Chain
Yes, they have for a long time. My domain for many years. But many new methods are now influencing the space. GigaOM explores. An extensive report I am reading...
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Predictive Analytics Evolution in R
Good, general non technical piece from Ventana Research. It is an evolution, with many people not understanding the issues in its use. " ... R, the open source...
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Tableau 8.1 and R Introduction
In exploration for a project that requires the use of some advanced analytical methods developed in R which would then provide access to the results interactively...
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Simulating for Success
In Fortune: My early work with analytics was building simulations systems at the Pentagon. This article describes well how this is done in Defense. And its improved...
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Visualizing Cell Phone Signals
Had always wondered what the RF space would look like. Here an attempt at visualizing how complex the coverage of RF looks like today. Some of the commenters...
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