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From The Eponymous Pickle

Strategies for Digital Groceries

Some thoughtful views on the topic.A Strategist’s Guide to the Digital GroceryAs Amazon and Walmart disrupt the grocery industry, smart retailers can compete by... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 10, 2017 at 08:46 AM

From Schneier on Security

The Future of Forgeries

This article argues that AI technologies will make image, audio, and video forgeries much easier in the future. Combined, the trajectory of cheap, high-quality... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 10, 2017 at 07:04 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Humans in 3D with Off-the-shelf Webcams

Tracking Humans in 3D With Off-the-Shelf Webcams Saarland UniversityResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Germany have developed VNect... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 10, 2017 at 01:07 AM

From Computational Complexity

Two hat problems you may or may not have seen but I have a point to make about one of them

Hat problems are fun and often require clever solutions. I have posted about one type of hat problem here. In this post I ask three. For two of them I have a point... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | July 9, 2017 at 05:32 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Exploration of Business Apps for VR

Virtual Reality: Exploring The Business ApplicationsCharles Deering in VRFocus gives an overview on the story of VR so far - and the story yet to come. ... Interesting... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 9, 2017 at 04:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Polinode and NodeXL

Via Andrew Pitts and Marc Smith (SMRF, NodeXL) Podcast:Polinode and the Social Media Research Foundation recently announced an integration between NodeXL Pro... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 9, 2017 at 11:45 AM

From insideHPC

Deep Learning in the Spotlight at ISC

This year the ISC conference dedicated an entire day to deep learning, Wednesday, June 21, to discuss the recent advances in artificial intelligence based on deep... staff
From insideHPC | July 9, 2017 at 11:13 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers

Katrin Heitmann from the University of Chicago presented this talk at PASC17. "In this talk I will introduce HACC, the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 9, 2017 at 10:56 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Sideways Elevators

Recall this being discussed for use in the design of large hotels and in aggregated cityscapes. More than a quantum escalator. Does it have a real future? At... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 9, 2017 at 09:55 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Lens as Augmented Reality

We are soon to see a number of applications that will use our advanced smartphones as a form of 'augmented reality'. I saw the 'Google Lens' demonstrated this... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 9, 2017 at 08:58 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Randomizing Routine

I can imagine a number of managers I have known who would have reacted to this as a person admitting they did not enough to do. But OK, might be worth a try,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 9, 2017 at 12:19 AM

From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Stanford

This position will specifically focus on management and support of an HPC cluster and multipetabyte storage platform that provides essential infrastructure for... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM

From insideHPC

Deep Learning Comes to the Student Cluster Competition

"We decided to use a slightly more interesting use case of solving for Captcha because it not only highlights the power of deep learning to be a useful tool create... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 8, 2017 at 10:57 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Can In-Store Experiences Save Retail?

I notice this article mentions my favorite experience store, Jungle Jims. Have covered from time to time here. Even they have been doing less of that, it seems... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 8, 2017 at 10:30 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Adobe Voice Analytics

Intriguing play, not where I would expect Adobe. We do need better understanding of voice interaction, especially in noisy environments. And understanding who... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 8, 2017 at 09:40 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Discusses Their Mixed Reality Focus

Interesting to watch, because Microsoft crafts or influences much of the worlds personal computer user experience. So will user experience become VR or mixedMicrosoft... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 8, 2017 at 08:47 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Visions of the Future of Work

Reviewing:The Commission on Work, Workers, and TechnologyWe’re imagining scenarios for the future of workFindings of Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers, and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 8, 2017 at 12:55 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Untangling Decision Making

Untangling your organization’s decision makingAny organization can improve the speed and quality of its decisions by paying more attention to what it’s deciding... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 8, 2017 at 12:54 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Ad Effects Offline

Snap Seeking offline ad success measures: In Adage: " ... Snap Inc. has acquired Placed, a startup that measures the offline success of digital advertising campaigns... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 7, 2017 at 04:55 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Charting Change

Last year taught a course at Columbia on change management. To my students who are still following, here is a nice piece out of Innovation Excellence on charting... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 7, 2017 at 03:51 PM