Monthly Archives: January 2020

Management Decision Market Report

MarketsAndMarkets expects the global Management Decision Market to grow from USD 2.89 Billion in 2016 to USD 6.18 Billion by 2022. It names the major vendors in the management decision market: FICO, SAS, TIBCO, Oracle, IBM, Sapiens, Experian, ACTICO, Pegasystems, … Continue reading

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Can analytics predict epidemics?

Angrew Ng published an interesting article “Stopping Coronavirus” in his Jan 29 issue of The Batch. It talks about a Canadian company that analyzes online information to predict epidemics spotted the upsurge in coronavirus at least a week ahead of … Continue reading

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Apply to speak at BBC 2020 in Las Vegas

Building Business Capability-2020 will be held on Oct. 19-23 at Las Vegas. This conference is targeted toward professionals involved in Business Analysis, Digital Innovation, Business Strategy & Transformation, Business Architecture, Business Process, and Business Rules & Decisions. It again will … Continue reading

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AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud

Modern cloud platforms quickly become the most popular destinations for operational business decision services. What’s the best cloud platform for their deployment? Computerworld takes a look at the merits of the big three vendors: AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google … Continue reading

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Deep Learning State of the Art (2020)

Lex Fridman gave a lecture on recent developments in deep learning and AI, and hopes for 2020 as a part of the MIT Deep Learning Lecture Series. Watch

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Challenge Jan-2020 “NIM Rules”  

Nim Game has been played since ancient times. “There is 15, 16 or 17 balls in the row. Two players take turns removing balls from the row, but only 1, 2 or 3 balls at a time. The player who … Continue reading

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Helping the Mortgage Industry Go Digital

At DecisionCAMP-2019 Brian Stucky presented “Beyond Decision Models – Using Technical and Business Standards to Transform Financial Services” describing the use of DMN by MISMO – the mortgage industry’s standards organization. The new article by Bruce Silver provides a very … Continue reading

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“Do you love me?”​ How can a computer deal with real sentences?

Prof. Roger Shank just published an article with this title. He writes: “My career was in Natural Language Processing which is only one part of AI. I spent my life trying to figure out ways that computers could understand sentences … Continue reading

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Declarative AI 2020

The International Conference Declarative AI 2020 brings together RuleML+RR, DecisionCAMP, and Reasoning Web Summer School. It will take place in Oslo, Norway, on 23 June – 1 July, 2020. The event aims at presenting the latest advancements in AI and … Continue reading

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Evaluating Machine Learning Models

KDnuggets’s post “Idiot’s Guide to Precision, Recall, and Confusion Matrix” provides an intuitive explanation of how to evaluate Classification models. “Building Machine Learning models is fun, but making sure we build the best ones is what makes a difference. Follow … Continue reading

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