Did IBM publish papers describing the algorithms used in IBM Watson? Supposedly IBM Watson has 41 different subsystems (which I find analogous to Apple Siri’s 35+ APIs). I have not seen a…
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Would you pay—real money, not credits—for a good answer?
Would you pay—real money, not credits—for a good answer? Disintermediation… the real question is whether or not Quora is disintermediating consulting. Solutions… solutions solve problems. Gamification… could Quora credits be a version…
What are the benefits of social bots indexing social chatter?
What are the benefits of social bots indexing social chatter? Social media monitoring [1] is most often used for opinion mining [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_CRM [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
How do I create RSS feed out of images?
How do I create RSS feed out of images? If these images can be viewed in a browser then they have a URL. RSS requires elements or fields [1]. Yahoo! Pipes is…
What are the key challenges in designing/developing an effective question answering system?
What are the key challenges in designing/developing an effective question answering system? You first have to define what kind of question answering system you are on about. Many people refer to the…
How would one establish a home automation business in Venezuela?
How would one establish a home automation business in Venezuela? Approach major home automation suppliers in the US about becoming their exclusive distributor for Venezuela. See my Meta Guide webpage, “Dialog Systems…
Where do you see robotics in 5, 10 and 20 years?
Where do you see robotics in 5, 10 and 20 years? Talking about the “Lego-ization” of cloud robotics … see my recent videos on “Open Chatbot Standards for a Modular Chatbot Framework”…
How much web traffic does Linkedin send your site?
How much web traffic does Linkedin send your site? I noticed recently that I was getting more website traffic from LinkedIn by sending my tweets into LinkedIn than from Twitter itself, with…
Communicating with the new Social Customer, how should the ultimate Enterprise software look like?
Communicating with the new Social Customer, how should the ultimate Enterprise software look like? See my recent answers to: 1) Marcus L Endicott’s answer to Natural Language Processing: What are the state-of-the-art…
Where can you visualize ideas as physical arrangements of neural networks?
Where can you visualize ideas as physical arrangements of neural networks? Where? Why, just over the horizon…. You are on the right track with Connectomics though. There is an inexorable top-down, bottom-up…