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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
Ahold Virtual Markets
We experimented with virtual markets for years ...Ahold uses virtual supermarket to test conceptsAhold USA is testing marketing and merchandising concepts with...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
November 13 WATCH Talk- The burden of authentication: What friction points reveal
On November 13, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will host it’s next Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH) talk. The talk will be “The burden...
From Schneier on Security
Verizon Tracking Mobile Internet Use
Verizon is tracking the Internet use of their phones by surreptitiously modifying URLs. This is a good description of how it works....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Trial Use Received
Just received a note indicating that I can now finally start my trial use of Watson Analytics. It is positioned as a 'trial use', you cannot retain any data after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimization Direct for Operations Research
In the early days of my career, most of my work was done with optimization analytics, primarily in R&D, Supply Chain and Manufacturing. We utilized methods that...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention recently: Netflix says the value of its recommendations algorithms is $500M/year ([1]) Details on the internals of LinkedIn's recommender...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals Group Product Intelligence
Just brought to my attention: Signals Group" ... Powerful product intelligence driven by data, geared towards action. We saw a need to reduce the risk and increase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing in the 21st Century
Nathan Heller writes in the New Yorker: " ... In a prologue to “The Sense of Style,” subtitled “A Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century,” the brain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Work Styles
We all know that there are very widely varied work styles. But can we accurately use a classification of these to plan and deliver better results? To work better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does P&G Need Retailers Anymore?
In Retailwire: Yes, despite all the changes, it very much does .... The experience endures." ... Procter & Gamble's $89 million distribution center near Dayton...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Forcefully boring young people is necessary…
In many schools, a fifth of all boys are prescribed Amphetamine-related drugs because they have been diagnosed with an attention deficit. But these pills are not...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keyless Entry and Checkin
In GigaOm: Smartphone as keyless entry. Nice idea, but with the usual privacy issues. It was not too long ago I saw an article about hacking hotel doors. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Data
Attended an online conference call about the sharing and use of medical data for analytics. Quite interesting. My own last couple of years of medical experiences...
From Computational Complexity
A few more notes about Sipser and Sipser-60th
While Lance was AT Mikefest (Sipser's 60th Bday conference), helping to organize it, emceeing the personal statements, I was... also there. A few notes Aside...
From Schneier on Security
Adam Shostack's Threat Modeling
Probably the best IT security book of the year is Adam Shostack's Threat Modeling. The book is an honorable mention finalist for "The Best Books" of the past 12...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 November 2014
Interesting week last week. We finished the first quarter in school. For me a bit of catch up on grading. Not my favorite thing that. I didn’t blog a lot but one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science is Real!
See Carla Gentry's Data Science is Real site. Met and interacted at a recent conference. " ... I’m not an Entrepreneur, I’m not a CEO, I’m a Data Nerd ... ". ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Swash Cleaning Shirts
In Bloomberg: A look at big company collaborative innovation at P&G " ... a venture with Whirlpool Cleans Dirty Clothes fast ... ". Mildly involved during itsabout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Marketing Science Article Press Releases
I was reminded that the Informs Analytics organization has a marketing science section that periodically publishes press releases. They are listed here. Starting...
From The Eponymous Pickle