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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Shopping at SF Lab
Always interested in innovation center ideas. Here a look at at the Westfield Malls experimental startups labs. See also my extensive writing on innovation centers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Let the Patients Search
This was brought up in a conversation with a doctor. Of course it requires caution, but it does by itself create more engagement. It is also inevitable. If...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ask the Right Questions for Data Value
Often the key thing to do. Its the kernel of many kinds of expertise. Know the questions, in rough order of importance. Know where to invest your time in answering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploratory Analysis with Excel
As the piece says, still common in even very sophisticated organizations. Data and metadata is often stored and, edited, monitored and analyzed in Excel.
From insideHPC
Pleiades Supercomputer Moves Up the Ranks with Haswell
NASA reports that it's newly upgraded Pleiades supercomputer ranks number 11 on the July 2015 TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers. And while the LINPACK...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Developer for Deep Learning Startup
A leading Artificial Intelligence Technology Startup is seeking an HPC Systems Developer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Developer...
From Putting People First
Why does Tinder work? A biological anthropologist explains…
Users of the dating app assess potential partners in much the same way as neanderthals did, according to anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist...
From Putting People First
LSE anthropologist: microcredit only adds to poverty
Far from being a panacea, small loans add to poverty and undermine people by saddling them with unsustainable debt, argues anthropologist Dr. Jason Hickel of the...
From Putting People First
An anthropologist on the Photoshop team
Almost two years ago, the Photoshop team pivoted to focus its energies and resources on design features and workflows. To be successful, the team needed to understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Grand Challenge in IOT
CISCO INNOVATION GRAND CHALLENGE Calling all IoT Trailblazers!$250,000 in awards to jumpstart your venture!The ChallengeAre you building an industry-disruptingWith...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Annual Conference 2015–Looking Back
The 2015 Annual CSTA Conference is in the books now. Over 350 people attended in Grapevine TX for 14 three-hour workshops and 24 concurrent sessions. There wascode...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Tone Analyzer
In CW: Helping you write. Or at least helping with the tone of the writing. Not the syntax or semantics. Tone is one kind of meta semantic. Nice idea, some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Thinking with Computers
All use of computing is collaborative. With the computer. It is advisory, learning, question and answer, rule following, cognitive, predictive and prescriptive...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Giving Birth
I may have posted this short video before, but if I did, I can't find it. It's four years old, but still pretty to watch. As usual, you can also use this squid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Amazon Prime Day
A look at the success of Amazon Prime Day. Good statistics and thoughts. Amazon says it was very successful. Evan Schuman points to the usual scuttlebut on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Your Cognitive Technology
Tom Davenport on building cognitive technologies." ... Most organizations that are exploring cognitive technologies—smart machines that automate aspects of decision...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Often Should Prices be Changed Online?
HBR article on the frequency of price changes. " ... Today’s technologies allow digital businesses (as well as a growing roster of traditional companies) to change...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Going beyond our limitations
The nerds online are (slightly) panicking: it looks like Moore’s law is coming to an end. Moore’s law is the observation that microprocessors roughly double in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spam Decreasing
At a twelve year low as we learn to detect it better, but Malware continues to rise and is harder to detect.
From The Eponymous Pickle