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Short examples of the Value of Emergent Analytic Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Short examples of the Value of Emergent Analytic Tech

O'Reilly puts together four interesting examples of the use of emergent tech.  Worth a look.O'Reilly Radar by Nat TorkingtonFour short links: 8 July 2020   AI Weirdness...

Tool Turns Math into Pictures
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tool Turns Math into Pictures

Lovely thought, you can browse the images, and edit or choose the best.  To produce a best explanation.   A means to communicate math concepts with management,Carnegie...

Half a Million IoT Passwords Leaked
From Schneier on Security

Half a Million IoT Passwords Leaked

It is amazing that this sort of thing can still happen: ...the list was compiled by scanning the entire internet for devices that were exposing their Telnet port...

Wal-Mart Vs Amazon  with Premium Subscription Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Vs Amazon with Premium Subscription Services

Not too surprising, but closely follow the effectiveness of the execution used.  I like the emergence of competition here.Walmart Spent Years on a Secret Plan to...

Marc Pritchard Says Consumer Expectations Are Greater Than Ever
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marc Pritchard Says Consumer Expectations Are Greater Than Ever

in AdWeek   A former colleague of mine discusses consumer expectations of business,Marc Pritchard Says Consumer Expectations Are Greater Than EverIn his first keynote...

Conifer: Revisiting Web Pages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conifer: Revisiting Web Pages

Brought to my attention again, how effective is this to use?    Will be testing.Conifer:  Collect and revisit web pages.Conifer is a web archiving service thatFree...

Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs
From insideHPC

Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs

Google today introduced the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google Compute Engine based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU, launched inGoogle...

Drones of all Types in the Smart City
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones of all Types in the Smart City

Good general piece on the topic.  Inevitable.  Their form, security, management and capabilities are still to be worked out in sufficient detail.   Also the further...

AWS CodeGuru Available
From The Eponymous Pickle

AWS CodeGuru Available

Had not seen this yet, worth a close look.    When we coded we had experts review its quality along a number of metrics.  Automating this process should ensureAWS...

CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell to Receive the Herbert A. Simon Award
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell to Receive the Herbert A. Simon Award

The Herbert A. Simon Award is presented to researchers who have made important lifetime contributions to the field of complex systems science. It is named in memory...

Get Started with the Alexa Skills Kit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Get Started with the Alexa Skills Kit

Another introduction to how skills work in Alexa.Get Started with the Alexa Skills KitLearn how Alexa skills work and how you can build one using the Alexa Skills...

Overview of Federated Learning for Privacy Critical Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Overview of Federated Learning for Privacy Critical Learning

A look at federated learning  (Via O'Reilly).  Intro useful for anyone, then technical.Federated learning enables machine learning in privacy-critical applications...

IoT Security Principles
From Schneier on Security

IoT Security Principles

The BSA -- also known as the Software Alliance, formerly the Business Software Alliance -- is an industry lobbying group. They just published "Policy Principles...

Reports: TSMC May Commercialize Production of Cerebras-style AI Supercomputing Chips
From insideHPC

Reports: TSMC May Commercialize Production of Cerebras-style AI Supercomputing Chips

Published reports state that TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) may begin commercial production within two years of specialized supercomputer AIReports...

Challenge and Workshop for Open Domain Question Answering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Challenge and Workshop for Open Domain Question Answering

Answer questions based on open domain Knowledge.  Good general statement of the most important part of useful AI.   Details at the link.Presenting a Challenge and...

VR System to Turn Smells into Temperatures
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR System to Turn Smells into Temperatures

Here is quite an interesting play,  hacking your nose to get a temperature experience?  Skiing VR  experiences?  Thinking about the reality of this.    Temperature...

Microphone Signature Tracking of Covid Exposure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microphone Signature Tracking of Covid Exposure

Interesting approach,  with approval of the phone owner I assume, they could the release of such 'random tokens', and another phone within some radius, would pick...

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 26 – Science and Technology for National Intelligence with John Beieler (Live from AAAS 2020)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 26 – Science and Technology for National Intelligence with John Beieler (Live from AAAS 2020)

A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast was recorded live at the...

Cognixion: Unlocking Speech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognixion: Unlocking Speech

Was reminded today of Cognixion,  formerly Smartstones,  and founder Andreas Forsland, which I have a connection with.  Their site features a system called: Speakprose...

McDonald's Adapts Menus to Consumers
From The Eponymous Pickle

McDonald's Adapts Menus to Consumers

Been observing McDonald's operational marketing for some years, after making a short analysis of their data and how it interacted with how they did in-store, real...
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