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- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … Buying from Amazon is kind of a crapshoot even if you can see what it is you’re buying . ↩︎ What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? | IBM ( archive.is …
- The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs. … I bet IBM has done this Because IBM has done this; someone made one during an IBM hackathon [8] that required using Watsonx [9] and whatever it is …
- A Grab Bag … they're doing private exascale computing, they hired a bunch of people from IBM, ARM and so on and threw out a bunch of junk that x86/ARM …
- It's getting hot in here, so … Weather is big business [1] , I remember things like IBM buying The Weather Channel but only the data/website biz, not The Weather Channel, The Amazing Poster Child …
- "Gestures futilely at late-stage capitalism dystopia" … the ridiculously privileged laptop I used to use at college was an IBM ThinkPad with an mWave DSP -- a digital signal processor. Those DSPs now are the kinds …
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … IBM Global Services acquired the Monday arm (now not an arm, and an appendage of IBM, I suppose), in July 2002. ↩︎ Verizon completes Yahoo acquisition, creating a diverse …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … More recently, see IBM and This Is Not A Place Of Honor . ↩︎ Object Linking and Embedding ↩︎
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … naming things is always interesting, especially when it involves neologisms, so the press release includes IBM’s justification/explanation of what Kyndryl means [ IBM press release ] which includes …
- Blockchain buzz buzz buzz … So IBM makes a bunch of ads saying stuff like (I paraphrase/make-up) IBM Blockchain Delivers An Enterprise Supply Chain And Logistics Management System You And Your …
- Why Not Put An RFID On Everything, and Griefing … by racial bias in health-care algorithms IBM’s Watson Health potentially underdelivering against its promises [ Computerworld ], see also IBM’s Watson supercomputer recommended ‘unsafe and incorrect’ cancer …
- This Is Your Regular Reminder … This is your regular reminder that speech recognition used by Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft on average misidentified words around 35% of the time for African Americans …
- Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020 … Look: “Sounds great,” you say, and IBM is all ready to sell you a bunch of upgraded paper. And then you think about it for a little bit …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … But it is true! And anyway, you should really look at the tweet because it’s got a photo of Deighton with his “91kg leased IBM MT72 [which …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … I have yet to be persuaded about distributed ledgers (but if someone from IBM *really* wants to persuade me why their food thing *needs* a distributed ledger that …
- Firebreak Protocol … and to be fair, what they’re actually doing is have IBM do it, and IBM have figured out a way to use the blockchain to do it …
- Sherlock Holmes and the Slack Channel Names … instead the Northeast US utility company) settled with IT vendor WiPro and that IBM and Bridgestone had a bit of a tiff over a botched SAP-based ERP …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … etc. * Someone took a look at how commerical face detection (not identification!) services (Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft) perform (with an admittedly small sample size of 33 images) and …
- The City Was Connected … Everything had gone to shit when they'd come in as the 'social fabric platform' when IBM connected the city. It's not like the streetlights worked, anyway …
- You Want To Classify Prime Numbers Now? … I mean, I should do, right? Is it really the case that you can't really go to IBM or Accenture or Deloitte or whoever to get good …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … You've got Google's cloud machine learning products[3], IBM's Watson Services[4] and, as ever, absolutely nothing that you can plug Apple or Siri services …
- Broadcast Resumed … 1.0 Broadcast resumed - United States military procurement is so complicated and so broken that it's easier to throw one of our better artificial intelligences (IBM's …
- The Watsons; 2015 (2) … 1.0 The Watsons IBM has a thing called Watson Developer Cloud[0] that "uses cognitive computing to solve complex problems". I tried giving it yesterday's episode …
- Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s … interesting. - Lucy[4] is funny if only because Lucy ends up looking like some kind of IBM z-series mainframe but also downloads herself onto a USB stick …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … well, IBM probably wouldn't have done that so a good fifteen years ago you still would have been safe buying a ThinkPad, but I guess another way …
- Clarity; The Customer … Microsoft's customers were Dell, HP, IBM, Gateway - the OEMs who bought Microsoft software en-masse and pre-installed it on the computers that we bought. We did …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … the oft-quoted saying about Microsoft was that they never really sold to end users - they sold to OEMs like Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM and, back in the …