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Ted Talks on IBM Watson & Bayes’ rule in evolution
Some of our most read articles have been on IBM Watson, including suggestions & possible alternatives. We’ve pushed IBM several times to come up with better demos for Watson in a business context. This author went to a demonstration by IBM of Watson in August 2014, an witnessed an overglorified AltaVista demonstrated by an engineer. (AltaVista was the dominant Internet search engine prior to Google. Both Google and AltaVista can handle natural language question-like syntax in search queries, although users tend not to use since it just adds boilerplate text. Similar to AltaVista two decades ago, this Watson demonstration would some respond to questions by coming up with partially-related excerpts from various web pages from a small medical database on the web. It had difficultly understanding many simple questions, and the clips selected weren’t always the most appropriate responses. It didn’t look like this thing was a Jeopardy! champion. As the engineer was told, this is bleeding-edge technology; if you want to sell it to businesses, you need to make the case.… Read the restOur Twitter account is a top 1% global social media influencer
According to social media rating firm Kred, our associated Twitter account is a top 1% of social media influencer globally. (Our Kred score, 751 at the original time of this writing, has since gone higher.) Thought we’d share the Kred badge as our Picture of the Day on our Instagram account. Multiple, third-party social media ratings firms, have consistently put us in the top 1 to 5% of social media influencers globally. We also a high Klout rating, and earlier social media rating firm Magnific ranked us among the most influential locally in Los Angeles. These social media rankings are, of course, an example of analytics (and, potentially, big data). Different rating firms (and techniques) have advantages and disadvantages. Kred’s claim to fame is that they are using a completely open ranking methodology. This is unlike most of their competitors, which feel a need to keep their algorithms secret to prevent gaming, among other issues.… Read the restMars One lander: candidate selection milestone
Shown here is an artist’s drawing for the Nasa Phoenix robot lander probe. Mars One is financing a scout probe based on this design to make an initial robotic survey trip, scheduled for 2018. Mars One was in the news today. Mars One achieved a major candidate selection milestone, narrowing down the candidates for their privately-funded one-way trip to Red Planet to 50 men and 50 women. We’re continuing our recent theme of photo posts on Martian colonization. THis theme is coincidentally just in time for this news. A one-way trip to a permanent space colony, with no possibility of return if something goes wrong, will greatly reduce the weight and complexity of the spacecraft. Mars One hopes it will shaves decades off the preparation time, albeit not without criticism for greatly increasing the risks to the explorers by eliminating the safety-net of a round trip. (Mars is still risky business, as becomes clear from the number of probes that have been lost over the years.)… Read the restBI Inspiration: Lexus supercar automotive dashboard
This is an automotive dashboard on a high-end Lexus supercar. Continuing our look at visuals of (non-business) dashboards (and scoreboards), this is an LCD Tachometer automotive dashboard on the Lexus LFA supercar. (“One of the most expensive Japanese cars ever.” A European TV show suggested status-conscious owners would loudly announce “I’m getting into the expensive Lexus”, making the studied insult this would normally be an oxymoron. Don’t know what the show’s editors drive, but the last we checked your “regular” Lexus was still heavily associated with the 1%. Car & Driver reportedly effused over the supercar, claiming it was a bargain compared to cars like the more expensive Ferrari that it outperformed. Before we get too excited about its state-of-the-art internal combustion engine, as data scientists we’ll state clearly our belief that the future is with alternative propulsion systems like the Tesla’s electric motor. Electric motors have incredible torque and acceleration once the energy storage problems are addressed.)… Read the restRecent Posts
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