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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die. However, other examples are not so harmless.

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

The Grid Edge includes the innovative solutions of hardware, software, and business innovation that are enabling smart infrastructure to be installed at or near the “edge” of the electric power grid. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model. degree mark.

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The Arrival and Potential of Knowledge Graphs into Our World

Paul Hobcraft

If only we can get them prised out of the engineer, data scientists, or software experts hands. The querying of data still has limitations without significant rewriting of new code to go and undertake a search. Knowledge Graphs have a real potential to become highly valuable, topical and relevant. So are you with me so far?

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Well not anymore, GE recently in its 3 rd quarter review revealed its chronic cash position. In reality, its free cash flow can’t pay its obligations.

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8 Innovative Baby Boomer Knowledge Management and Retention Strategies

Idea to Value

Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.”. After all, institutional knowledge loss can also occur when key employees resign or are lost due to illness, tragedy, or being poached by another company.

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A Christmas Carole 2015 – The Ebenezer 1% and Cratchit Middle Class

Adam Hartung

Ever since Ronald Reagan rewrote the tax code, dramatically lowering marginal rates on wealthy people and slashing capital gains taxes, America’s wealthy have been amassing even greater wealth, while the middle class has gone backward and the poor have remained poor. For a great many American’s that is the situation in 2015 USA.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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