Communications of the ACM
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October 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cause and Effect or Inevitable?
Embedded intelligent tech vs training. Democratizing what?
Democratization of AI Could Prevent the Great Resignation
Opinion By TDWI, September 20, 2022
It's no secret that the technology industry has been hit hard by the Great…From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Stack Observability
I admit I did not know the term, but OK, lots at the link.
From Cisco
Deliver and optimize digital experiences by connecting application performance to business context.
What is full-stack observability?
…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI System Predicts How to Prevent Wildfires
AI System Predicts How to Prevent Wildfires
Aalto University (Finland)
September 9, 2022
A neural network model developed by researchers at Finland's Aalto University can predict the effectiveness of different land management strategies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Will AI Kill College Writing?
I think still pretty detectable.
By The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 3, 2022
Each time you click GPT-3's “submit” button, the machine learning algorithm pulls from the wisdom of the entire…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI System Makes Models Like DALL-E 2 More Creative
Ultimately gets us closer to AI
AI System Makes Models Like DALL-E 2 More Creative
By MIT News, September 13, 2022
The Composable Diffusion model created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Illinois at Urbana…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Payroll
How Amazon is looking at employment, staffing issues
Will Amazon’s $1 billion payroll investment work to keep front lines staffed? in Retailwire
Source: Amazon recruitment video
AMAZON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION HUMAN RESOURCES ONLINE…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Platforms and Network Effects
Very interesting area of interest.
Data Platforms and Network Effects
By Michael A. Cusumano
Communications of the ACM, October 2022, Vol. 65 No. 10, Pages 22-24 10.1145/3555833
Industry platforms are foundations that bring people…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing, Measuring Smell
Was long time interest of ours for product use.
Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor Google Blog
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Posted by Richard C. Gerkin, Google Research, and Alexander B. Wiltschko, Google
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Watershed Models with Deep Learning
Unusual application of interest.
Deep learning improves stream discharge-based estimates of subsurface permeability, allowing scientists to create more accurate watershed models. Deep Learning Uses Stream Discharge to Estimate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tool Uncovers Cancers
Tool Uncovers Cancer-Driving Structural Variations
Weill Cornell Medicine Newsroom, September 26, 2022
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers created the CSVDriver software to identify cancer-generating structural variants (SVs) from…From The Eponymous Pickle
Terranet: Laser Scanning
Interesting example:
TERRANET – FIRST SAMPLE UNIT OF ITS LASER SCANNING..
September 30, 2022
Terranet ready to produce the first sample unit of its laser scanning module
Terranet has completed its extensive development and simulation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata's Data Lakehouse
Data Infrastructure by TeraData
Last week Teradata offered its long-awaited response to the emergence of the data lakehouse. As VentureBeat’s George Lawton reported, Teradata has always differentiated itself…From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Try to Teach Robot to Laugh at the Right Time
Scientists Try to Teach Robot to Laugh at the Right Time
The Guardian (U.K.)
Hannah Devlin, September 15, 2022
Koji Inoue and colleagues at Japan's Kyoto University have developed an artificial intelligence system that can guide…From The Eponymous Pickle
Asessing AI System Perfomance
Much more at the link, useful consideration.
Microsoft Research Blog
Assessing AI system performance: thinking beyond models to deployment contexts
Published September 26, 2022
By Cecily Morrison , Principal Research Manager Martin…