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Tag Archives: SHOT

A SHOT FROM MARS

October 29, 2020   Humor

Cliffs in ancient ice:

Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice. We study this ice to learn about Mars’ ancient climate and astronauts’ future water supplies.

Sometimes we see the buried ice because cliffs form like the one in this image. On the brownish, dusty cliff wall, the faint light-blue-colored ice shows through. Some of these cliffs change before our eyes and boulders of ice can tumble downhill. We take repeat images of these scenes to check for changes like this.

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Comedian Mark Jones Shot And Killed By The Police In Los Angeles

May 18, 2020   Humor
 Comedian Mark Jones Shot And Killed By The Police In Los Angeles

According to reports, comedian Mark Jones was shot and killed Monday night when a California Highway Patrol officer opened fire during a traffic stop on a freeway east of downtown Los Angeles.

The shooting happened at about 8:30 p.m. on the 60 Freeway near Markland Drive in Monterey Park. Lanes were closed for the shooting investigation.

The officers were providing security for a Caltrans road work crew when they conducted the traffic stop. Details about why Jones was stopped were not immediately available.

Reports are rather mixed, but according to the CHP, Jones did not comply with officers’ commands, and an officer opened.

Jones died at the scene.

Jones was a frequent visitor of several comedy clubs around LA, especially The Comedy Union, where he often hit the stage.

“They initiated an enforcement stop,” CHP Capt. Salvador Suarez told reporters at the scene. “At some point during the enforcement stop, an officer-involved shooting occurred with one individual.”

Both sides of the freeway were closed for the investigation.

This story is developing.

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November 21, 2019   Humor

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This AI learns from past matches to predict tennis shot placement

January 18, 2019   Big Data
 This AI learns from past matches to predict tennis shot placement

You might have heard about AI that teaches four-legged robots to walk and autonomous systems that generate photorealistic images of butterflies, but what about models that forecast the shot location of tennis balls? In a newly published preprint paper on Arxiv.org (“Memory Augmented Deep Generative models for Forecasting the Next Shot Location in Tennis“), researchers from Queensland University of Technology describe an AI system that’s not only capable of anticipating a tennis opponent’s actions, but doing so with “player-level” behavioral patterns.

“Inspired by recent neuroscience discoveries we incorporate neural memory modules to model the episodic and semantic memory components of a tennis player,” the researchers wrote.

Tracking a tennis ball is no easy feat at the professional level, given that they whiz by at speeds exceeding 130 miles per hour. Some studies suggest that expert players are more adept generally at detecting events in advance, in fact, and have better knowledge of situational probabilities.

The researchers used those biological insights to design what they dubbed Memory-augmented Semi Supervised Generative Adversarial Network (MSS-GAN), based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) — a two-part neural network consisting of generators that produce samples and discriminators that attempt to distinguish between the generated samples and real-world samples — whose memory networks loosely mimic those in the brain. A novel structure stored episodic memories (long-term memories that involve conscious recollection of previous experiences), and a framework that propagated knowledge from the episodic memories to another structure responsible for storing semantic memory (long-term memory involving the capacity to recall words, concepts, or numbers).

Here’s how it worked in practice: A perception component processed input data to obtain embeddings, or mathematical representation, that represented shots taken by tennis players. Combined with other embeddings from the episodic memory and semantic memory, they were used to generate next shot predictions, which a GAN framework validated for accuracy.

To train the AI system, the researchers fed it ball behavior — including trajectory, speed, angle, and player foot movements — from 8,780 shots taken by the top three players (Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, and Novak Djokovic) at the 2012 Australian Open Men’s singles. In tests, it managed to predict shots from Nadal, Federer, and Djokovic to within 0.87 meters, 0.79 meters, and 1.14 meters, respectively. But perhaps more impressively, the researchers observed that, even with reduced training data, the AI system’s performance wasn’t significantly impacted, indicating its ability to infer different player styles.

“We demonstrate that the proposed framework can be utilized not only for high-performance coaching, and designing intelligent camera systems for automatic broadcasting, where the system anticipate the next shot and shot type to better capture the player behavior; but also for better understanding of player strategies, strengths, and weaknesses,” the researchers wrote. “The proposed model learns these attributes automatically via modeling the player knowledge and experiences through neural memory networks and outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines. [E]xamples [observed during tests] demonstrate that the proposed … model is capable of capturing match context and the player tactical elements which are essential when anticipating player behavior.”

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Microsoft Gives NetSuite Partners a Shot at 300,000 Customers

November 6, 2018   NetSuite
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Posted by John Goode, Senior Director of Channel Marketing

Now is a great time to be a NetSuite partner. And for those who are not NetSuite partners, now is a good time to add NetSuite to the portfolio. Why? There is a huge opportunity waiting, courtesy of Microsoft.

Microsoft, through changes in its application product strategy and roadmap, is sending a signal that customers should migrate from Dynamics GP, SL, NAV, AX or Business Edition to Dynamics 365 within the next several years. This means that up to 300,000 Dynamics customers are at a cross-roads and need to evaluate whether to upgrade to Dynamics 365 or possibly switch to a new platform.

Why are 300,000 customers up for grabs? Although Microsoft pitches migration between Dynamics versions as a simple upgrade, it is actually a 12-step process (according to Microsoft) requiring significant IT resources to execute. In fact, it is more difficult to migrate to Dynamics 365 in many cases, taking up to 24 weeks, than it is to implement NetSuite (typically 100 days or less).

What makes upgrading Dynamics complicated is inherent in its architecture. First, Dynamics SL, GP, AX and NAV, were all developed independently by different companies – Solomon Software, Great Plains, IBM/Damgaard Data and Navision, respectively. Microsoft acquired these companies and put their products into the Dynamics portfolio, but they continued to be developed in their own silos, as independent solutions.

Now Microsoft is attempting to simplify from four separate platforms down to two with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and 365 Business Central. With both of these incompatible platforms, the underlying complexity hasn’t been addressed, only masked. Dynamics 365 continues as a combination of different applications, written on different code bases, with different upgrade cycles, all using different databases stitched together through a common datastore and middleware layer. Moving from a legacy Dynamics solution to either of the Dynamics 365 platforms is complicated because every application, the integrations between every application and every customization built on the applications needs to addressed in some manner through either data conversion, rewriting code, rebuilding reporting, etc.

As a partner, now is the time to get in front of Dynamics customers. Contrast Dynamics’ overly complex collection of individual applications with NetSuite, a born-in-the-cloud, truly modern ERP platform. Unlike Dynamics, NetSuite is designed from the ground up to address an entire business, integrating ERP, CRM, supply chain management, manufacturing, ecommerce and more into a single platform with a unified data source. With NetSuite, not only is complexity significantly reduced but functionality is increased, allowing customers to manage and analyze their entire business from end to end in real-time. Plus, the more than 40,000 organizations using NetSuite are on the same version, receiving twice-per-year simple, automatic upgrades — keeping them in sync with the latest government regulations and functionality.

Partners see direct benefit from selling NetSuite. As a partner, by implementing NetSuite in place Dynamics or other similar solutions, you reduce IT complexity and evolve from IT problem solver to trusted business advisor to your customers.

What if you’re a partner selling Microsoft today? You may be wondering what happens to all your service revenue. You get paid to tie all those applications together and keep them working. With NetSuite, your customers shift their budget and look to you to implement projects that add more value to their business. Your engagement with customers will shift from break/fix to projects that increase revenue and reduce costs for their organization. This makes you more valuable to them and more profitable as a business, while also making your customers more profitable.

Want to learn more?

Current NetSuite partners can watch this recent webinar to find out more about positioning NetSuite vs. Microsoft Dynamics and prospective NetSuite partners can learn about the benefits of joining NetSuite.

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Sugar's New Shot Clock

August 17, 2018   CRM News and Info

SugarCRM has agreed to acquisition by Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm. Although Wednesday’s announcement calls the deal “a significant investment,” what typically happens when private equity moves in is that venture capital moves out.

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Private equity likes to own everything and thus have greater control. Although venture capital is still the prevalent investment form, private equity, with a different time horizon and goals, has been becoming increasingly important.

In basketball terms, Sugar just got a big rebound and a new shot clock, 24 seconds to run another play with the ball already in scoring position.

The company has been preparing itself for this moment for a few years by bringing in more seasoned executives in key spots, cleaning up its balance sheet, and innovating within its product line to make itself more attractive to customers. All the results have been positive, and executives have told me the company will make its numbers and then some.

Something New

So what do you do with a new shot clock? Obviously, you want to score, but in the CRM business there are lots of ways to do that. Moreover, there are a few plays that your competition already has run that you’d best avoid, because the defense will be expecting you.

In the CRM story, bigger vendors like Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and some others have taken the obvious niches like integration with the back office, AI, platforms and developer communities. All these things and more will be essential to Sugar’s success.

The company has a good story to tell in most areas, but these areas are table stakes at this point. Sugar’s job now is to come up with a unique synthesis that will make buyers take another look at the company with fresh eyes.

Scoring Points

SugarCRM for several years has been working to develop unique positioning by de-emphasizing its open source roots in favor of a model that has a more direct path to profits, something that has worked very well.

The other CRM vendors have become big by emphasizing an end-to-end solution set. In the process, they’ve become bloated, challenging to install and use, and somewhat expensive, so there’s a niche at that nexus. Is it profitable? Only time will tell.

Certainly, other vendors have done well starting out with a model that emphasized simplicity and low cost. It’s a grassroots strategy that works best when a category is relatively new, and it could work again.

Over the next year, you can expect to see Sugar leverage the deep pockets of Accel-KKR to expand its portfolio in ways that will highlight its new focus. Hopefully, that focus will reveal a new angle on CRM that Sugar can sustain.

One or two strategic acquisitions that materially add to revenue could catapult the business into new domains, so there’s a lot riding on the selection or fine-tuning of a new model.

The combination of new capital and a company with a mature management structure should be fun to watch. The next six months roughly equate to 24 seconds, and they will be critical. They may not show a final result, but they ought to put points on the board.
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The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ECT News Network.


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Denis Pombriant is a well-known CRM industry analyst, strategist, writer and speaker. His new book, You Can’t Buy Customer Loyalty, But You Can Earn It, is now available on Amazon. His 2015 book, Solve for the Customer, is also available there.
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“I Think I’ve Got A Shot At Living A Multi-Hundred-Year Lifespan”

September 14, 2016   Humor

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Peter Diamandis, who dreams of the world’s first trillionaire, believes we’ll become a “world of haves and super-haves.” On some levels, that would be great: a chance for no more poverty, disease greatly reduced, more opportunity and education for even those of us who have the least.

But there are some problems with that thinking. One is that even if there was some level of prosperity for everyone, great wealth inequality would still allow some to rig the system for themselves. Also if you look at America, a rich country in which everyone could certainly have food, shelter, a decent standard of living and good education and health care, that isn’t the case, and our infant mortality rate is shockingly high. I mean, we already have abundance. Distribution is really the challenge.

Post-scarcity would be wonderful, but it must be managed well. Diamandis seems a good-hearted person who would likely agree with that sentiment, but his macro vision for the future seems as flawed as his belief that he has a good shot at a mutli-century life. Much of his dreams for tomorrow seem driven by Silicon Valley insularity and irrational exuberance.

An excerpt from Leia Parker’s excellent Business Journals Q&A with the Singularitarian:

Question:

How old are you today?

Peter Diamandis:

55.

Question:

With longevity, are we at a point now with medicine that people alive today could live far longer than the average current life expectancy?

Peter Diamandis:

I think I’ve got a shot at living a multi-hundred-year lifespan. For me, it’s living long enough to live forever. We have incredible discoveries going on. There are incredible breakthroughs going on right now in stem cell science, so there’s no reason to believe that we will not see a longevity revolution coming our way.

Question:

You have written that we will enter an age of abundance because of exponential technological progress. If many people’s jobs are replaced by automation in this era of abundance, you have suggested people could receive a basic income so everyone could then work on their passions. Do you anticipate that happening in our lifetime? Oh yeah, I mean, you’ve got multiple countries working on that or testing it right now. Canada’s passed that.

Peter Diamandis:

Two things are going on in that regard. One is, we don’t realize it, but we’re very rapidly demonetizing the cost of living. The cost of things are dropping rapidly as we digitize, demonetize and democratize. So autonomous Ubers will be five to 10 times cheaper than owning and driving a car. Solar energy — we just set a record low of solar energy at 2.91 cents per kilowatt hour out of South America, and so we are going to see solar dropping in cost precipitously.

Imagine a world where our basic needs — energy and water, healthcare and education — are effectively free.

So the cost of living is dropping. Not that you wouldn’t be able to spend money on all kinds of things if you had it, but the fundamental Maslow’s needs are going to be met through what you can call a sort of technological socialism, where technology is taking care of those things for you.

And, it’s going to be interesting to see where humanity spends its time. Is it going to be in the virtual world, the gaming world?

Question:

Who would pay the basic income? Would it be governments or wealthy individuals?

Peter Diamandis:

I think it’s going to be governments through wealthy individuals. I think we’re going to see–

Question:

Like a taxing and redistribution?

Peter Diamandis:

Ultimately, I think that is likely to be what happens.•

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IMAGINE CAPTURING THIS SHOT?

December 1, 2015   Humor

Once in a lifetime:

 IMAGINE CAPTURING THIS SHOT?
A bird spotter hoping to get a picture of a rare eagle-owl was taken by surprise when the avian predator landed on his head.

Wildlife photographers had flocked to the town of Hilversum in the Netherlands after hearing that a large Eurasian eagle-owl, usually only spotted in remote forests, had been seen on the roof of a house near some playing fields.

Chris Meewis caught on camera the hilarious moment when the bird lover found himself the centre of attention as one of the largest species of owl chose his head as a perch.

Father-of-two Chris, 59, said: ‘We were all there waiting to see if we could spot this owl and photographers had come from all over to see it as it is a really magnificent bird.

‘It was supposed to be living on the roof of this house near some playing fields and everyone had set up their cameras but were yet to spot it. Suddenly out of nowhere this huge shape appeared and landed on one of the photographer’s heads.

‘It was so funny as all of the cameras suddenly turned on him. There he was thinking he was the one taking the picture and suddenly he finds himself the centre of one! Everyone was laughing but he was in complete shock and just stood there very still.’

The owl stayed on the unnamed photographer’s head for around 10-15 seconds, flapped its wings a few times and repositioned its talons, before flying off towards the trees.

Mr Meewis, who works at a garden centre, said: ‘The eagle-owl really was huge and had huge talons so it must have hurt the man’s head quite a lot and been very heavy to have standing up there like that.

‘Once the owl flew off the man was checking his head to see if it was bleeding and he looked surprised when he found it wasn’t – he just had a few light scratches. He was very lucky as the owl had some very big claws indeed.’

Mr Meewis had not taken his usual camera that he uses for photographing wildlife and only had his Fuji Compact with him so was pleased with the results.

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