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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
Space Exploration with CMaps
Been a while since I mentioned concept maps, but I use them often. In a Linkedin conversation I saw mention of their use in an example to provide motivation for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Your Work Done on a Tablet
I have had an iPad for years. I helped survey its practical use for the enterprise. I use it every day, but mostly for scanning information and planning, and...
From Putting People First
Applying insights from behavioral economics to policy design
Applying insights from behavioral economics to policy design Brigitte C. Madrian NBER Working paper July 2014 The premise of this article is that an understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Chatbots for Screening
An area where we worked extensively, communication bots. Also involved in clearance and interviewing processes. I know there is currently a huge backlog in clearance...
From Putting People First
Qualitative self-tracking and the Qualified Self
Mark Carrigan, sociologist, academic technologist and research assistant at the Centre for Social Ontology, is intellectually drawn to the Quantified Self because...
From Putting People First
Social wearables, as seen by the NYT R&D Group
Noah Feehan of the New York Times Research & Development group explores the concept of social wearables: objects that explicitly leverage their visibility or invisibility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Talent
Thoughts on what innovation talent looks like. It is an unusual talent. In particular to take it beyond speculation and on to useful implementation. In Innovation...
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Analytics Disciplines Compared
Once again, a very nice piece by Vincent Granville I am just exploring. Which seeks to answer a common question: What is the difference between all these analytic...
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Infrared Digital's Contextual Fusion
Heard a description of Infrared Digital's method called Fusion: " ..... FUSION provides an analytic architecture where you can create a single analysis that includes...
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IBM Big Data Hub
IBM on their view of big data, useful resources and pointers. " ... A strategic approach to big data is built on a data-driven culture, scalability and value,...
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The Need for Objectivity
Former boss Bob Herbold on the elusive but necessary concept of of objectivity. He always provides some excellent business examples from the management perspective...
From Putting People First
The touch-screen generation
Young children — even toddlers — are spending more and more time with digital technology. Hanna Rosin wonders what will it mean for their development? “As technology...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Build a Squid
An interactive animation from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vision Correcting Displays
In Mashable:" ... Those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyewear thanks to a display technology that corrects visionThe...
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Cognitive Computing Webinar and Resources
New World of Cognitive Computing. Yesterday attended a webinar on Cognitive Computing. Which was a fairly good introduction, non technical and suitable for an Recorded...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Old Galactic Result
A cautionary tale Karl Sundman was a Finnish mathematician who solved a major open problem in 1906. His solution would have been regarded as paradigm-“shifty” had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPhone as Future Wallet
More indications that Apple will be pushing the idea of a convenient phone-wallet in future mobile. An idea that has been around for years. Talked to credit card...
From Schneier on Security
Building a Legal Botnet in the Cloud
Two researchers have built a botnet using free anonymous accounts. They only collected 1,000 accounts, but there's no reason this can't scale to much larger numbers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinds of Regressions
Vincent Granville maps alternate regression types and their applications. Nicely done. It's very useful to know alternative tools and what they are good for....
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