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How deep is your learn?

How deep is your learn?

Hype, hope, and modern science fiction cinema have captured our imaginations and created significant expectations around the deployment of machine learning and AI in commercially available products in our near future (e.g. self driving cars). However, don’t expect to be transported to Machine City in Matrix Revolutions (very cool, in its own way) any time soon. The rise of the Continue reading

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The empire strikes …

The empire strikes …

Just a quick follow up to the post “Retail Drives Smart Home Innovation”…

One area of search where Google is being robustly challenged is product search. More consumers now initiate their search for products on Amazon than they do with Google. Think about that a minute. In fact, the CEO of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company Continue reading

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Retail drives smart home innovation

Retail drives smart home innovation

A visit to CES 2018 showed the future of the smart home really is a battle between Google and Amazon.  And made me revisit a blog post from December 2016 …


 

The popular focus on smart home technology is on home automation, such as smart lighting, environmental control, smart appliances and home security. These technologies make up a Continue reading

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The wall

The wall

Thinking back to a blog post from November 7, 2016

With the U.S. Presidential election less than a day away and talk of the “blue wall” being breached, it is worthwhile to revisit the original wall. As the topic will rear up post-election.

My daughter was in 2nd grade in the last academic year. The grade culminated with Continue reading

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0 to 60 hundred million in eight years …. The genius (AAARGH!!!) of uber

0 to 60 hundred million in eight years …. The genius (AAARGH!!!) of uber

When Uber released its financials, the reasons were political. But the results breathtaking, nonetheless. Uber was founded in March 2009 and in a mere eight years had revenues of $6.5B (gross bookings were $20B).

For context, this is comparable to where Google was eight years after inception, and significantly higher than Amazon and Facebook. Without arguing about Continue reading

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Graham-Cassidy health care bill was a big, bold … punt

Graham-Cassidy health care bill was a big, bold … punt

One basic philosophy of the Graham-Cassidy bill was to provide decision making authority closer to where the impacts are felt, i.e., the states. Devolution of power is nice, but beware unintended consequences.

There are lots of decisions that states can make that create entirely different markets separated just by state borders. These differences could lead to migration of Continue reading

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