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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
Verse by and for Brainstorming
I mentioned IBM's new EMail idea Verse. Now an article in the NYT about how they developed it and how they use it. The general brainstorming approach described...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is No Best Programming Language
Three items from different places on the same topic requires a blog post. Well for me it does. This week’s topic was picking the best programming language. NowMy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovating in Caine's Arcade
Late to this, but was impressed ... You can innovate. Having the pieces to innovate helps. But if you don't have them, you can invent them.Three Lessons FromIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Haptic Holograms
In New Scientist: Because we were dealing with products that improved sensory interactions like touch, we were always interested in how to connect digital and"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Astronomical Data
Astronomy is a science where understanding large amounts of data has been historically important. So it is natural that visualization has been important there....
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Cognitive Resources for Work
Jim Spohrer writes, adding to the thread of linking jobs to Cognitive solutions: .... Check out this fascinating TED talk which describes the need for more Cognitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Search Trends for Ad Buys
In Adage: Google mines search trends. " .... Two years ago, WPP's Mindshare created a tool for its client Kleenex that used Google search data to see whereSee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Work
In McKinsey:" ... A group of economists, tech entrepreneurs, and academics discuss whether technological advances will automate tasks more quickly than the United...
From The Eponymous Pickle
History and Future of the Smartphone
In Computing Now: Good view of the history of the smart phone. Where is this now so common device going? How will it fit into the needs of the future? " ...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Algorithms Via Linear Algebra
Announcing publication of our textbook with MIT Press By permission of Nataly Meerson, artist : source Richard Feynman had a knack for new ways of seeing. His Feynman...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Poaching off the Coast of Japan
There has been an increase in squid poaching by North Korea out of Japanese territorial waters. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hershey Wants to Share Big Data
In Fortune: " ... Hershey turns Kisses and Hugs into hard data ... Hershey and its peers see data analysis from Palantir as an industrywide golden ticket......
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Academia as an ‘anxiety machine’
We learned recently of the suicide of Stefan Grimm, a successful professor at the prestigious Imperial College in London. Professors Grimm regularly published highly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyperspecialization
The recently mentioned concept of microservices led to a conversation with Jim Spohrer of the Cognitive Systems Institute. He pointed me to a related idea of hyperspecialization...
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Big Data Must Go Causal
Correspondent Stefan Conrady of Bayesialab writes about the need for big data to go causal. I have been reading much about the topic recently See theCausation...
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Amazon Private Label Diapers
In Retailwire: Amazon competing with major CPG. Amazon has the consumer data to compete with Pampers. Amazon has sold P&G products directly for years. This"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Sector Productivity
Productivity and competitiveness. In McKinsey. " ... Service-sector productivity largely determines a nation’s ability to compete in today’s global economy....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Medical Wearable Updates
On wearable biosensors. A continuation of additional data gathering sensors and the implications for the need for new analytics and the skills to apply them. ...
From Schneier on Security