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Amazon.com: Customer Discussions: Digital Mind Math: author's chapter summaries

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Digital Mind Math is a complete mathematical model of the mind and cognition-a model for the sciences of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, and also of interest to anyone who thinks and anyone who enjoys having a mind. The two critical components of the Digital Mind Math model are p-adic mathematics and reconfigured spacetime, both of which are central to the theory of physics Topological Geometrodynamics (TGD) that Digital Mind Math is based on. New Physics and the Mind In Digital Mind Math, details are grouped to form concepts, as the mind identifies the boundaries of thoughts, which are intricately linked in real spacetime. The contents, sequences, and interconnections among thoughts are efficiently labeled using p-adic mathematics. P-adic mathematics-the mathematics of enclosure and sequencing-is our first mathematics, how we organize our world from infancy onward, the natural mathematics of cognition.


Robot runs over toddler in shopping centre - BBC News

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Security robots at a shopping centre in Silicon Valley have been taken off duty after one of them ran over a toddler. His mother told ABC News the robot had hit her son's head, "he fell down on the floor, and the robot did not stop". The 16-month-old, Harwin Cheng, was left with swelling to his right foot. The robot's developer, Californian start-up Knightscope, apologised for the "freakish accident" and invited the family to visit its Mountain View headquarters. It said: "A child... began running towards the machine. "The machine veered to the left to avoid the child, but the child ran backwards directly into the front quarter of the machine, at which point the machine stopped and the child fell on the ground.


300-Pound Security Robot Runs Over Toddler At California Shopping Center

Huffington Post - Tech news and opinion

The security robots are made by a company called Knightscope, located in Mountain View. The K5 version uses lasers, thermal imaging sensors, 360 video, air quality sensors, a microphone and various other technologies to deter and detect criminal activities. In the event of suspicious activity, the robot alerts local human authorities. Stacy Dean Stephens, Knightscope vice president of marketing and sales, told NBC Bay Area that the company does not think the robots are dangerous. "This is a horrific accident, but we believe the technology and the machines are incredibly safe and we will continue to do our best to make sure that they are," Stephens said.


Google buys sneaker-scanning machine learning company Moodstocks

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Someone at Google really likes sneakers: The company has just bought a French machine learning startup that taught a computer how to recognize 15,000 different types of them. Paris-based Moodstocks builds image and object recognition software using deep learning techniques, and offered an Android app and visual search API that could recognize certain kinds of object. By analyzing video from a smartphone camera, and correlating it with accelerometer readings to determine how the camera is moving around, the software is able to infer information about the three-dimensional shape of objects in the video, facilitating their recognition. In February 2015 the company demonstrated its ability to identify sneakers through its app. Three months later, after training the software using 15,000 photos of shoes from an online retailer's website, Moodstocks claimed to be able to shop online for all the sneakers on sale in a Macy's store. Google has been introducing elements of machine learning into its existing online services, including Google Translate and Inbox, a next-generation interface for Gmail.


'The world's most secretive company': 5 Amazon takeaways from IRCE 2016

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No brand in retail generates more questions, opinions and fascination than Amazon. So each year the Internet Retailer Conference Exposition hosts Amazon & Me, a day-long pre-conference workshop designed for retailers and branded manufacturers alike. Described by moderator/organizer Scot Wingo as "a curated mix of Amazon strategies and tactics that both beginners and advanced as well as retailers and brands can utilize," Amazon & Me 2016, held earlier this week, drilled deep into the Amazon mystique in an effort to better understand the company's business model, its core philosophies and its ultimate goals. Here are five major takeaways from this year's event. According to Wingo, the co-founder and executive chairman of e-commerce solutions provider ChannelAdvisor, Amazon's revenues are growing 26% year over year, and it now serves 310 million active buyers, a customer segment increasing 13% annually.


Stanford Shopping Center security robot runs over toddler Harwin Cheng

Daily Mail - Science & tech

A one-year-old boy has been injured after he was run over by a 300lb mall security robot. Toddler Harwin Cheng was'crying like crazy' after the 5ft-tall robot plowed into him at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, on Thursday. Harwin was left with a sore head and swollen right foot, as well as bruises on his right leg. Toddler Harwin Cheng (right) was'crying like crazy' after the 5ft-tall robot (left) plowed into him at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, on Thursday The Knightscope K5 robot is used to recognize known shoplifters and also reports unusual noises to the mall's security team. It is meant to use sensors to negotiate its way around its patrol path, but these apparently malfunctioned when it knocked down and ran over the 16-month-old boy.


Prime Day Shows Amazon Is So Powerful It Can Make Up Its Own Holiday

WIRED

Today is Amazon's second annual Prime Day, the made-up shopping holiday where Amazon makes hundreds of thousands of discounted deals available to Prime members. And chances are it will go even better for Amazon this year than it did the last. Amazon launched Prime Day a year ago to commemorate its 20th anniversary, and in spite of what many subscribers viewed as a rather lame product lineup, the company said it sold more on Prime Day than on Black Friday in 2014--34.4 million items sold, or 398 per second. Beyond the sheer number of deals, Prime Day reveals much about Amazon's deeper strategy for selling more. Amazon keeps oiling its logistics machine to make delivery faster: this year customers in more than 25 US metro areas will be able to get their Prime Day hauls in an hour or less via Prime Now, Amazon's superfast same-day delivery service.


Machine Learning Scientist, New Social Initiative/siliconarmada.com

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DESCRIPTION Do you want to be part of a startup team at Amazon that is going to make history? Are you interested in building engaging community experiences on Amazon.com and on mobile devices? Do you want to build things that millions of people will use? We are looking for a great Scientist to lead an effort out of Berlin (while partnering with a US team) centered around customer interactions. The opportunity is big - millions of Amazon customers contribute their opinions, answer questions, and share their experiences.


Amazon lets consumers speak up for Prime Day

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Amazon.com has unveiled another new feature for its second iteration of Prime Day, and customer voices will be heard. The e-tail giant is offering exclusive Prime Day deals for Amazon Prime members who use its Alexa voice-activated artificial intelligence platform through July 12. These offers will be good for eligible shoppers who order products using their voice on Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap devices. Also through July 12, Prime members will receive 10 off their first purchase on any eligible order of more than 20 when they shop using Alexa. To find more exclusive deals on the actual date of Prime Day, July 12, Prime members can ask, "Alexa, what are your Prime Day deals?" or visit the special Alexa Deals page.


Jim Cramer: We Believe in GE's Predix

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The'machine learning' involved in General Electric's (GE) Predix platform is a game-changer and Microsoft (MSFT) is coming along for the ride, said TheStreet's Jim Cramer. Shares of General Electric are up almost on percent on Monday morning after the company said its Predix industrial operating system will be available on Microsoft's Azure cloud. Microsoft hopes that GE's Predix will convince its loyal industrial customers to adopt Azure. Microsoft said it will will integrate Predix with its business applications including Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Power BI.