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In the early 2000’s, IBM Deep Blue was on the lookout for its next Grand Challenge. It had achieved an exhilarating win over chess grand… Read More »Digital Transformation Horizon 1 to Horizon 3: When Is Innovation Really Innovation?
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As Kevin Lynch, CTO of The Information Lab in Dublin, was describing how his organization uses the Hypothesis Development Canvas, it occurred to me that… Read More »Does Your Hypothesis Development Canvas Tell a Story?
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They say that the best ideas sometimes come to you while you are in the shower, and this idea of how to explain two important… Read More »Using a Bathroom Faucet to Teach Neural Network Basic Concepts
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In many of my presentations and lectures, I have made the following declaration: In Big Data, it isn’t the volume of data that’s interesting, it’s… Read More »In Big Data, It’s Not the Volume that’s Important, It’s the Granularity
