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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
Science of Shopping
Broad article in the Economist on the topic of how retail is increasingly using the store as a laboratory to gather behavioral data about shoppers. Also aboutBrandsense...
From insideHPC
Microsoft
On Christmas Day, Microsoft published the details on a recent patent application geared toward pay-as-you-go computing.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Grabbing attention or building a reputation?
Daniel Tunkelang has been writing on the attention economy (here and here for example): everyone is fighting to have your attention, and you only have so much to...
From Putting People First
Focussing on consumer needs is now more crucial than ever
Tuning up your focus on customer needs is more crucial than ever, writes business and innovation strategist Idris Mootee. Customers always have problems to solve...
From insideHPC
Fractals example in MPI on Windows HPC
Angel Lopez posts an updated example of the fractal HPC Server example code I updated my fractal example to support MPI.NET (Message Passing Interface with .NET)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Thinking Outside the Pyramid
Good detailed local paper article on Procter & Gamble's Clay Street Project. A previous Futurist article on this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Measurement Explored
Kate Niederhoffer on the Future of Measurement a good overview and pointer to the full PDF. Interesting thoughts, worth a look. Personally I think that thereSocial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Risks of Numerical Models
Passed along by a colleague. A short article and podcast that makes a very profound point. No matter how sophisticated and mathematical a model is, if it doesThe...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!
Practical innovation explains how per-capita wealth increased eightfold during the last century. Yet, we are constantly reminded that we never invent anything new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wisdom of Crowds?
Colleague Sammy Haroon critiques the idea of a wisdom of crowds.
From The Eponymous Pickle
UPS Remarks on Supply Chains
Global Supply Chains are not ready for challenging times. Many large companies have models of their supply chains. You would assume that it is just a matter of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asking for Too Much Information
It is not only about privacy, it seems that consumes are making some interesting, even logical choices about risk and economics. In ECommerce Times:" ... According...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining Business Intelligence Terms
In the BeyeNetwork Colin White looks at the various implications of the business intelligence terms: Data, Analysis and Visualization. He covers a number of variant...
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Changing Views of Business Intelligence
Continuing my review of alternative views of Business Intelligence, an article by Dave Wells: The Changing Face of Business Intelligence. " ... industry has strayed...
From insideHPC
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Lab’s latest Cray supercomputer installation was recently completed.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Tree Rings
Junk Charts shows a particularly bizarre misuse of data visualization design by Starbucks. Seems the visual designers would not use something as simple as a bar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Desktop
In Tech Review:People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My (short) activity report for 2008
I heard on radio today that the Christmas break should be used to review the past year, and decide where you want to go. Good idea! What did I do? I published...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog