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Amazon Rekognition Announces New Features
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Rekognition Announces New Features

For a prototype project have been examining applications of face and image analysis.  I see that Amazon has added a number of new features to their RekognitionAmazon...

Empathy and Product Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Empathy and Product Design

Have followed this site for some time, follow along. Empathy and the Art of Product DesignBy Vignesh Ramesh in UXMatters.Solving extraordinary problems and creating...

Chatbots Driving Future of Content Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatbots Driving Future of Content Marketing

Based on our own experience, I concur.  Probably driven most by people starting to experience more conversations with chatbots.   Authenticity helps, but the authenticity...

Software can Identify People from DNA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Software can Identify People from DNA

This software can Identify People from their DNA in minutes  via the Hindu Times“We’re especially excited about the potential to improve cell authentication inResearchers...

Smalt: A Smart Salt Shaker
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smalt: A Smart Salt Shaker

A Smart Salt Shaker?  Uses in commercial cooking applications?  More generally in any blending design and testing application?   In CBInsights.com by Anand Sanwal...

Capital One Rethinking Banking: Multimodal Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Capital One Rethinking Banking: Multimodal Skills

A useful example of multimodal assistance development. Voice plus visual.   Following with another example of skill in this space.Session recording now available...

RCE Podcast Looks at PMIx Process Management Interface for Exascale
From insideHPC

RCE Podcast Looks at PMIx Process Management Interface for Exascale

In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss PMIx with Ralph Castain from Intel. "The Process Management Interface (PMI) has been used for quite some...

Self Destructing Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Destructing Drones

In these cases you have to think about the liability risk from the infrastructure  of your supply chain.Amazon Working on Self-Dismantling Drone by Ethan BaronCIO...

Video: Australian Bureau of Meteorology moves to a new Data Production Service
From insideHPC

Video: Australian Bureau of Meteorology moves to a new Data Production Service

Tim Pugh from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology gave this talk at the DDN User Group in Denver. "The Bureau of Meteorology, Australia’s national weather, climate...

Kuri Update and Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kuri Update and Future

The updated newsletter for the Kuri home robot includes extensive new information.  Very nicely presented. The system is now scheduled for shipment this month. ...

What’s It Like To Serve On A Board?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

What’s It Like To Serve On A Board?

Throughout my professional career—academia, industry, government, I’ve been involved with many boards. Most of my experiences have be positive; most of them were...

Video: Introducing the Nitro Hypervisor – the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization
From insideHPC

Video: Introducing the Nitro Hypervisor – the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization

In this video from AWS Reinvent, Anthony Liguori from Amazon presents: Nitro Hypervisor - the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization. "The new Nitro hypervisorVideo...

Fixing Statistics in Algorithms, Process
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fixing Statistics in Algorithms, Process

Thoughtful piece.  And increasingly important as we decide to algorithmically, and sometimes non transparently  implement methods deeper in the process.   WillFive...

Apply now for Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing 2018
From insideHPC

Apply now for Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing 2018

Computational scientists now have the opportunity to apply for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC). The event takes placeApply...

Google and Knowledge Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and Knowledge Graphs

A hint at where Google, AI and knowledge delivery is going.   Here the foundation is maps.  From location, to stores, to brands, to ?     Where does this lead to...

Google Do it Yourself AI and Voice Kit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Do it Yourself AI and Voice Kit

For the do it yourself hobbyist, or the clever and inquisitive child, get started with voice and vision AI,   assistants.   $35 and less.  Add AI to your Raspberry...

Thoughts on the Network Effect of Voice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thoughts on the Network Effect of Voice

Fascinating point regarding how voice is really different.    What are the implications for this as voice interaction grows?    Is it expected in the network? In...

AI Generating Games, and Gamification?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Generating Games, and Gamification?

And can this be taken beyond to generate the gamification of business skills and tasks?AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games in Technology ReviewBy Simon Parkin...

Five ways to fix statistics
From Putting People First

Five ways to fix statistics

As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians – Jeff Leek, Blakeley B...

Five ways to fix statistics
From Putting People First

Five ways to fix statistics

As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians – Jeff Leek, Blakeley B...
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