AshTech #5 Deepmind & Go

Sun, 08 May 2016 23:40:30 -0400

Go - Deepmind, Skinterface, Email Habits, Doodling, HoverBike

AI - Thoughts on Deepmind and Go

#AI #go #deepmind #singularity

The machines are winning. The recent win of Google’s Deepmind AI at laying Go is a major step in Machine Learning. Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game has long been the holy grail of the AI geeks to find. Recently Google’s DeepMind AI defeated Go Grandmaster Lee Se Dol 4-1. This is clearly a triumph of the advances in artificial Intelligence and deep learning. In Game 3 Deepmind played a move that no human has ever made. Here in lies the hope that AI will bring to humanity. It will enable us to see things that we have not yet dreamt of and help us look beyond our imagination. So heres looking to the beginning of a beautiful friendship humanity+ai

Skinterface

#interface #applewatch #smartwatch #androidwear

This new idea for using the human skin as input for our smartwatch may just be the thing that will make them more usable.

Video Demo

Email habits

#email

Some great tips from the C-suite on dealing with your daily email deluge. http://goo.gl/Om3Zt8

Doodling

#art #doodle As a parent of a doodler I was fascinated to learn how doodling enhances memory, recall and understanding of the subject matter. Maybe that is why when whiteboard my meetings I enjoy them better . http://goo.gl/tpVvIb

HoverBike

#drone #hoverbike You have to watch to see this crazy fun bike now where can I chase those stormtroopers. https://youtu.be/1ToBgypNwL4 http://goo.gl/qnsfE1

AshTech #4 - Driverless Trucks

Sun, 01 May 2016 22:34:52 -0400

Driverless Trucks, $79 Laptop, Negotiaiting Salary, Fotokite, Win95 on Applewatch

The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs

http://goo.gl/nygHZy

Before we get driverless cars, driverless trucks have the potential to revolutionize the goods distribution system on land. It will reduce cost and reduce the time for delivery of goods. It will pose a considerable impact to the large amount of drivers that the industry currently employs.

A $79 Remix OS laptop may be on the way

RemixOs brings android to your laptop as an OS. It was being sold as an OS to install in your slow running old PCs and laptops. A Chinese manufacturer wants to sell you a new laptop with the RemixOS and sell it for under a hundred bucks.

How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120,000 to $250,000 in just a few weeks

Some good insights that will help you on your next job hunt.

Fotokite for your dronies aka drone selfies

http://goo.gl/K3QMRH

I have always worried about a drone getting away while flying it. The fotokite is a great drone for all of us who are afraid to loose a drone.

Developer hacks Apple Watch to boot and run Windows 95

http://goo.gl/VOFCVc

All I can say is wow … a tip of the hat to some ingenious skills.

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