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Asia Letter, Q3 2020: A New Indo-Pacific Starts to Take Shape

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Scott Foster has again captured the early winds of change in Asia, this time as its neighbors shift partially away from China. The free-trade pacts between European countries and free Asian countries is exciting, and new, and worth taking note of.

The free-trade pacts between European countries and free Asian countries is exciting, and new, and worth taking note of. Almost overnight (as in, since COVID-19 began), we are seeing a new chill in relations between ASEAN countries and China, even as business begins to pick up.

Pattern Computing: From Prediction to Understanding

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​Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the ai.Hamburg fAIstival, with longtime members Ragnar Kruse and Petra Vorsteher at the controls. I've decided, with permission from Petra and Ragnar, to share this interview with all of our members this week.

Future in Review Conference 2011

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Normally, adults learn in frames, creating shortcuts for our brains that affect not only what we see, but also our brain structure itself. In order to see the world as it really is, he explained, we must drop all of our frames, regardless of mood, age, religion or political affiliation, and...

FiRe 2015 in Review

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It seems that FiRe has become perhaps the most dynamic "conference" in the technology world. At a time when the rest of the world continues to play the Rolodex game, we are launched on a path of discovery and creation that makes FiRe an Idea Incubator, a Company Creator, an intellectual partner...

Special Letter: Three Drivers of the Digital Classroom

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Technology and Education: two ideas that cannot be separated, and that have yet to be properly merged. In the firmament of veterans in this sector who have the combination of history and technical chops to properly assess our current situation, there are few as capable as our member, Frank Catalano.

Inside FiRe

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Whether your interest is in chips, software, massive data, analytics, data visualization, cloud computing, security, IP theft and protection, technology markets, international trade, or global economics, FiRe has consistently focused on problems (and solutions) that, usually years later, became...

Whether your interest is in chips, software, massive data, analytics, data visualization, cloud computing, security, IP theft and protection, technology markets, international trade, or global economics, FiRe has consistently focused on problems (and solutions) that, usually years later, became mainstream..

FiRe 2019 in Review, Part II: “Anticipating the Unexpected”

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We hope you enjoy entering or re-entering the deep world of FiRe and that you learn something you hadn't previously known you were curious about, with topics including China's economic strategy, human-AI interaction, autonomous vehicles, microbiomes, and IIOT.

We hope you enjoy entering or re-entering the deep world of FiRe and that you learn something you hadn't previously known you were curious about, with topics including China's economic strategy, human-AI interaction, autonomous vehicles, microbiomes, and IIOT. .

Special Letter: Flow and the Big Shift in Business Models

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This year's FiRe conference promises to open new areas of study in both theory and practice. And "first among firsts" is the proposition behind our theme for the year, "The Power of Flows."

The Cost (and Benefits) of GPT

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It's time to stop fawning over GPT’s ability to mirror human text and start considering the cost of the folly of shipping broken product.

Here's the definition on Wikipedia: "A transformer is a deep learning architecture that relies on the parallel multi-head attention mechanism." Now is the time to insert graphics of the architecture to make everything clear again, since I sense many of you may still not be following.

FiRe 2019 in Review, Part I: “Anticipating the Unexpected”

Note: Trends and Predictions

We hope you enjoy entering or re-entering the deep world of FiRe and that you learn something you hadn't previously known you were curious about, with topics including genetic and epigenetic disasters, autonomous vehicles, security, and genetics.

With pre-diabetes, which affects one-third of the US population, she found that asking patients to eat within 10 hours per day, not changing the nature of their diet or their level of exercise, lowered their blood pressure, reduced their weight, and removed non-alcohol-related fat from their liver.

Special Letter: Gaps in Our Near-Future Agenda

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The future is a vast, unruly work-space, so let's focus on the near-term realm of immediate opportunity.

Psychologically, those who self-identify with the "right" tend to be suspicious of frenzied calls to improve the world, to improve society or ourselves. Even the very notion of improvability - through planned and coordinated effort - rouses visceral rejection.

Digital Wellness and the Transformation of Healthcare

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In this transcript of the conversation between Leroy Hood and Larry Smarr at this year's FiRe Conference, members will have a chance to fully grasp what a real revolution in modern medicine will look like.

What is interesting is the convergence of systems medicine with big data and its analytics - and interestingly enough, with patient-activated social networks - all converging to create this thing we call P4 Medicine. P4 Medicine, from the earliest days, had two essences.