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Data ScienceTerms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data ScienceTerms

In DSC,  a good list of common data science terms.  " ... post by Mic Farris. Mic is a Decision Science & Analytics Leader at CenturyLink. Two of the biggest buzzwords...

Swarms of Internal Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarms of Internal Drones

Precisely what we proposed at one time internally, but the tech of the time did not permit it.  Primary issues was battery life, size and sensor capability.  Linking...

Why Andrew Ng Teaches AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Andrew Ng Teaches AI

Why AI Visionary Andrew Ng Teaches Humans to Teach Computers Associated Press  by Ryan NakashimaStanford University professor Andrew Ng's current area of concentration...

Friday Squid Blogging: Prehistoric Dolphins that Ate Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Prehistoric Dolphins that Ate Squid

Paleontologists have discovered a prehistoric toothless dolphin that fed by vacuuming up squid: There actually are modern odontocetes that don't really use their...

Find the Best Way to Deliver These
From The Eponymous Pickle

Find the Best Way to Deliver These

Its an old problem.   It was one of the first problem types I worked on at the enterprise.   It has been declared solved a number of times, but some other little...

APIs for Data Scientists
From The Eponymous Pickle

APIs for Data Scientists

Good piece here,  the architecture is key, and well written APIs can make that happen.How will APIs change the role of data scientists?  By Gregor Herrmann on Hidden...

AI Fashion Designer
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Fashion Designer

Note the use of a classic recommendation approach.  Does this embody creativity as well?  Would like to see this compared direct to human design and measures like...

Tacobots: Brands Telling Stories, Taking Orders
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tacobots: Brands Telling Stories, Taking Orders

How well we know this.   See the tags on our approaches.    Chatbots can make it happen.  But carefully applied. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reinventing the...

Video: Introduction to High Performance Computing
From insideHPC

Video: Introduction to High Performance Computing

Dr. Erwin Laure from the PDC Center for HPC in Sweden presented this talk at the 4th Human Brain Project School in Austria. The 4th HBP School offered a comprehensive...

How is Amazon Changing Whole Foods?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How is Amazon Changing Whole Foods?

Announcements not very remarkable, would like to see more technology in store,  that supports the idea of fresh,  integration of ingredients, cooking and innovation...

Heroes of Deep Learning: Andrew Ng interviews Pieter Abbeel
From insideHPC

Heroes of Deep Learning: Andrew Ng interviews Pieter Abbeel

In this video from the Heroes of Deep Learning series, Andrew Ng interviews Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley. "Work in Artificial Intelligence in the EECS department...

NSF Announces $17.7 Million Funding for Data Science Projects
From insideHPC

NSF Announces $17.7 Million Funding for Data Science Projects

Today the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced $17.7 million in funding for 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) projects...

SC17 Exhibition Setting Records
From insideHPC

SC17 Exhibition Setting Records

Even though SC17 is still more than two months away, this year’s Exhibition is already setting records. We are excited to report that we have already smashed the...

Military Robots as a Nature Analog
From Schneier on Security

Military Robots as a Nature Analog

This very interesting essay looks at the future of military robotics and finds many analogs in nature: Imagine a low-cost drone with the range of a Canada goose...

Design Thinking is bullshit
From Putting People First

Design Thinking is bullshit

Here is Pentagram partner and designer Natasha Jen‘s definition of design thinking: Design thinking packages a designer’s way of working for a non-designer audience...

Design Thinking needs to think bigger
From Putting People First

Design Thinking needs to think bigger

We live in a massively complex, intricately interconnected global system. And it’s increasingly impossible to be designers (or human beings) without taking into...

Should we delight the customer?
From Putting People First

Should we delight the customer?

Growing the service design industry requires more than simply educating the next generation of service designers. Business students can also benefit from learning...

Forecast and Fulfillment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forecast and Fulfillment

Discussion in Retailwire.     This remains a most important question.  The results of forecasts are driven by context, and that is always changing.    Even with...

Microsoft Claims new Level of Speech Reco Accuracy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Claims new Level of Speech Reco Accuracy

Claims to yet better cognitive performance.  Note the claim to improved contextual dialogs, utimately essential to speech interaction.  More open AI please. Microsoft...

Beyond the Turing Test
From The Eponymous Pickle

Beyond the Turing Test

Video overview:  https://vimeo.com/226955559Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science ChallengeCarissa Schoenick discusses "Moving Beyond the Turing...
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