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From The Eponymous Pickle

Changing Customer Loyalty

Thoughts on changes in customer loyalty.Customer Loyalty Isn’t What It Used to BeInstead of relying on points programs and clever marketing, companies have to listen... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2016 at 07:32 AM

From Apophenia

Columbus Day!?!? What the f* are we celebrating?

Today is Columbus Day, a celebration of colonialism wrapped up under the guise of exploration. Children around the US are taught that European settlers came in... zephoria
From Apophenia | October 10, 2016 at 07:22 AM

From Writing

Terraform tips & tricks: loops, if-statements, and gotchas

In the previous parts of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series, we explained why we picked Terraform, introduced the basic syntax and features of Terraform...
From Writing | October 10, 2016 at 03:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

On a Third Age of Data

In Datanami by Jeff CobbThe Third Age of Data has arrived. Today, an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2016 at 12:30 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Smart City Marketing

Via MIT:Intelligent Marketing in Smart Cities Crowdsourced Data for Geo-ConquestingBo-Wei Chen, Monash UniversityWen Ji, Chinese Academy of SciencesThe authors’... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2016 at 12:16 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

G Suite from Google

Virtual assistant style interaction for business, linking together a number of Google Apps and services. Formerly called Google Apps. It is unclear how much 'intelligence'... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2016 at 11:59 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Neural Nets and the Universe

Or perhaps they can just model some small part of the cosmos, given enough data. Is this just the classic case of over-fitting? ? Be worried if your model suddenly... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2016 at 11:55 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Blink Security and Amazon Echo

Have thought about how you could compare snippets of a video to infer security status. Digital Video Analysis. Blink appears to be doing this. Though Google... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2016 at 02:22 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Automating Data Science

Thoughts on automated data science. In KDNuggets. Interview with SKLearn team. Some good thoughts here. I would note that this was thought of decades ago,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2016 at 01:32 PM

From insideHPC

Sandia’s Bill Camp to Receive Seymour Cray Award

This week, IEEE announced that Dr. William Camp, Director Emeritus at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Computer Society... staff
From insideHPC | October 9, 2016 at 01:11 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Which Jobs will Robots Take First?

From the BBC, non technical view: Intelligent Machines: The jobs robots will steal first - BBC News : Largely agree but we also need to consider how AI techniques... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2016 at 12:53 PM

From insideHPC

First Look: BeeGFS File System at CSCS

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Hussein Harake provides an overview of the CSCS and then introduces the audience to the BeeGFS parallel... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | October 9, 2016 at 12:45 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving the Value of Data Science

Five Practices to Improve the Value of Data ScienceOptimizing the Effectiveness of Data Science TeamsData science efforts are only as good as the results they deliver... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2016 at 07:43 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Global Technology Policy Update – October 2016

ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Computer Science Education and Research in Europe – ACM Europe Policy Committee members will be attending the European Computer Science... Renee Dopplick, ACM Director of Public Policy
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | October 9, 2016 at 04:46 AM

From insideHPC

Is Free Lunch Back? Douglas Eadline Looks at the Epiphany-V Processor

Over at Cluster Monkey, Douglas Eadline writes that the "free lunch" performance boost of Moore's Law may indeed be back with the 1024-core Epiphany-V chip that... staff
From insideHPC | October 8, 2016 at 11:56 AM

From insideHPC

Brookhaven Lab to Develop ECP Exascale Software

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory will play major roles in two of the 15 fully funded application development proposals recently selected by the DOE's... staff
From insideHPC | October 8, 2016 at 11:22 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Social Promotion Effectiveness

Measurement is always a key topic. Via Revtrax:The Unique Power and Value of Social PromotionsSocial Promotions have a special ability to drive trial and loyalty... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 8, 2016 at 09:55 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Oracle and Data Science

Oracle’s Big Data & Analytics Platform for Data ScientistsI work for Oracle, helping businesses realize the potential of data science, big data and machine learning... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 8, 2016 at 02:55 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Salesforce Chatbots

Another example of cognitive AI delivered for service in chatbot tools.Salesforce debuts chatbot building toolsThe new LiveMessage service helps with automated... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 7, 2016 at 07:07 PM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Global Tech Policy Update – September 2016

ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Cybersecurity in the United States – The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted comments to the Presidential Commission on Enhancing... Renee Dopplick
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | October 7, 2016 at 05:53 PM