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Could a Tree Signal if A Corpse is Decaying?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Could a Tree Signal if A Corpse is Decaying?

 We worked with satellite and other kinds of imaging to determine the growth and health of forests, as we planned their harvest and replanting for CPG products....

Using Sound to Classify
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Sound to Classify

Have always promoted the idea of using sound sensors, and sound delivery to activate contextual spaces. Here Carnegie Mellon explores this, calibrating it for sounds...

Good students find questions, not answers
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Good students find questions, not answers

It is often believed that learning is a simple matter of collecting answers and replies.  I suspect that “learn mechanistically how to answer the questions” isContinue...

[Book] Engaged: Designing for Behavioral Change
From Putting People First

[Book] Engaged: Designing for Behavioral Change

Behavior change design creates entrancing—and effective—products and experiences. Whether you’ve studied psychology or are new to the field, you can incorporate...

The Future of HPC for Manufacturing
From insideHPC

The Future of HPC for Manufacturing

In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and Intel explain how High-Performance Computing (HPC) has gone mainstream and forever changed the world of engineering...

P&G's Expanded EY Partnership
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G's Expanded EY Partnership

Good overview of the current work.  Reported in ConsumerGoodsTechnology (CGT) P&G Boosting Supply Chain Potential with Expanded EY Partnership | Consumer Goods"...

360 Degree Virtual Tours
From The Eponymous Pickle

360 Degree Virtual Tours

Been recently looking at various capabilities of producing 'Virtual tours' of various complexity.  And in particular how it can enhance experiences.    Most of360...

From Computational Complexity

Two Math Problems of interest (at least to me)

 I will give two math problems that are of interest to me.These are not new problems, however you will have more fun if you work on them yourself and leave comments...

Data and Its World is Getting Bigger
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data and Its World is Getting Bigger

Almost every talk I see starts with some statistics about the growth of data.  Here Datanami updates some of this, with related quantifying of related aspects. ...

Amazon Drone Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Drone Delivery

Wired makes the point that drone deliveries for now will only be for specialized and emergency situations.  Agree about the consumer interest point, delivery has...

Ransomware Attacks more Sophisticated
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ransomware Attacks more Sophisticated

Continued concern of these, facilitated by the openness of our systems to external manipulation.  what is the solution?    The ability to detect particular kinds...

Feynman's Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feynman's Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram

Particularly interesting if you are intrigued by the origin and transmission of ideas.   As I am.  This blog for example was established to continue communications...

NIST Calls for Cloud Forensics
From The Eponymous Pickle

NIST Calls for Cloud Forensics

Another example of forensics from patterns.  NIST Calls for Standards to Improve Forensic Capabilities in the CloudNextGov.comMariam BakshAugust 27, 2020A report...

Schneier.com is Moving
From Schneier on Security

Schneier.com is Moving

I'm switching my website software from Movable Type to Wordpress, and moving to a new host. The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday...

Schneier.com is Moving
From Schneier on Security

Schneier.com is Moving

I’m switching my website software from Movable Type to WordPress, and moving to a new host. The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday...

Schneier.com is Moving
From Schneier on Security

Schneier.com is Moving

I’m switching my website software from Movable Type to WordPress, and moving to a new host. The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday...

Intelligent Sensing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Sensing

More examples of integrating sensors for learning.  Adapting. Intelligent Sensing Abilities for Robots to Carry Out Complex TasksNational University of Singapore...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Closing An Open Problem

Crawl, then walk, then run. Bogdan Grechuk is a lecturer in the math department at the University of Leicester. His office is in the Michael Atiyah Building. Pretty...

Science and Technology links (September 5th 2020)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (September 5th 2020)

Single cells are able to navigate complex mazes. E.g., it works with mouse pancreatic cancer cells. Body builders and athletes sometimes take a supplement called...

VR As the Future for Meetups:  Burning Man Example
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR As the Future for Meetups: Burning Man Example

I am skeptical too, but the observer says it worked very well.  Will our future be one of VR experiences to let us observe and interact?   I was skeptical about...
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