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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
Subtle Patterns in Complex Events
I have now seen a number of live demonstrations of Recorded Future and am increasingly intrigued by the subtle complexity that is revealed when we can do something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SASCom Centers of Excellence Webinar
Upcoming Wednesday, a very useful topic:"Centers of Excellence 101: How to maximize knowledge from BI and analytical resourcesIt's webinar time again! This hour...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Franz Edelman Award Submissions
While at the Procter & Gamble company I was involved in finalist and winning submissions for the Franz Edelman Award. I am a big proponent. Its purpose " ..More...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Pushes Private Label Beauty
Big brand manufacturers continue to be nervous about how retailers are increasingly promoting private label (aka store brands). Beauty care products have been less...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Working long hours is stupid
We do too much. We carry too many projects. This overproduction creates problems which we try to fix by working even more. We value most what we create (see
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infographic Overuse
This infographic about new and declining social media was recently much touted. It would attract attention if hung on the wall, but it is no more than a list of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Analysis Tools from HBS
These are inexpensive PDFs used in courses that include Excel templates. Have not examined in detail, but might be useful to get started in the basic analyticsHBS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Arithmetic Need to Be Saved?
Arithmetic broken? Provocative little piece via Richard James. In New Scientist: "...Mathematicians are facing a stark choice
From Computational Complexity
But This One Is Different...
This summer I took a two part vacation: Touring Ireland July 26-August 5, with my wife to celebrate twenty years of marriage and a short trip to Santa Fe, Augut...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-16
Oracle/Google: the strategy behind Sun, Oracle and the OSS implications This whole Oracle-copies-SCO mess has many degrees of complexity – historical, legal, technical...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking into a Garage
In seconds. Garage doors with automatic openers have always seemed like a lot of security theater to me.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 August 2010
I was on vacation last week. I could not seem to stay away from the Internet and from blogging though. So there were blog posts and I was on Twitter a good bit....
From The Eponymous Pickle
FourSquare Style Case Studies
Walter Riker, author of the excellent introductory Ease of Blogging space, points me to an good set of examples of using FourSquare type methods. Thanks Walter....
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-15
Oracle v Google: Why? Excellent discussion by Stephen O'Grady together with pointers to other commentary that's worth considering. No conclusions, of course, since...
From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Nuggetize
I’ve been exchanging emails with Dhiti co-founder Bharath Mohan about Nuggetize, an intriguing interface that surfaces “nuggets” from a site to reduce the user’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brave New Google and Intelligence
Nick Carr satirically views the interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the WSJ yesterday. Schmidt positions the future of search as an artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physics Wins in Net Neutrality
Colleague Mark Montgomery in the KYield blog, On Net Neutrality: " ... The net neutrality issue is finally being debated, thanks not to populist politics, but rather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
24 Hour Customer
Newly acquired: The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott. Just started, nicely focused to the time...
From The Eponymous Pickle