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This paper is under CC 4.0 license. available on arxiv : Authors (1) Linda Pigureddu, University of Turin, Italy, 332079@edu.unito.it; (2) Cristina Gena, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy, cristina.gena@unito.it. Table of Links Introduction The Project Memes Conclusion and References CONCLUSION The analysis of the interactions and dialogues that took place during the therapeutic laboratory for autonomies endorsed with the inclusion of the Pepper robot provided an interesting perspective on the communication dynamics of children in the lab. The results obtained showed the effectiveness of the robot in promoting autonomy and functional acquisition, demonstrating that the therapeutic method based on assistive robotics is a valuable resource to support the rehabilitation needs of communication and social skills of autistic children. The analysis highlights new possibilities for their engagement and active participation as a co-designer, as we already experienced in the past with neuro-typical children [19], representing an innovative opportunity to promote the development and wellness of autistic people and opening to new perspectives for therapeutic intervention more aware of the needs of autistic minds. In conclusion, this paper highlights the need to provide the robot with the ability of adapt to the children’s peculiarity and features and sharing her/his vocabulary, especially by recognizing and using memes during interactions, to inspire greater trust in children and allowing the use of common slang, already in use with classmates, allowing them to consider Pepper a peer and effectively insert it in the role of mediator. In addition, it would allow children to use a simplified type of communication during meetings to compensate for the typical communication deficits associated with autism spectrum disorders. 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The Power of Memes: The Pepper Robot as a Communicative Aid for Autistic Children - Conclusion

The Big Four by Agatha Christie, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . NUMBER FOUR WINS A TRICK XVII. NUMBER FOUR WINS A TRICK From our quiet retreat in the Ardennes we watched the progress of affairs in the great world. We were plentifully supplied with newspapers, and every day Poirot received a bulky envelope, evidently containing some kind of report. He never showed these reports to me, but I could usually tell from his manner whether its contents had been satisfactory or otherwise. He never wavered in his belief that our present plan was the only one likely to be crowned by success. "As a minor point, Hastings," he remarked one day, "I was in continual fear of your death lying at my door. And that rendered me nervous—like a cat upon the jumps, as you say. But now I am well satisfied. Even if they discover that the Captain Hastings who landed in South America is an imposter (and I do not think they will discover it, they are not likely to send an agent out there who knows you personally), they will only believe that you are trying to circumvent them in some clever manner of your own, and will pay no serious attention to discovering your whereabouts. Of the one vital fact, my supposed death, they are thoroughly convinced. They will go ahead and mature their plans." "And then?" I asked eagerly. "And then, mon ami, grand resurrection of Hercule Poirot! At the eleventh hour I reappear, throw all into confusion, and achieve the supreme victory in my own unique manner!" I realised that Poirot's vanity was of the case-hardened variety which could withstand all attacks. I reminded him that once or twice the honours of the game had lain with our adversaries. But I might have known that it was impossible to diminish Hercule Poirot's enthusiasm for his own methods. "See you, Hastings, it is like the little trick that you play with the cards. You have seen it without doubt? You take the four knaves, you divide them, one on top of the pack, one underneath, and so on—you cut and you shuffle, and there they are all together again. That is my object. So far I have been contending, now against one of the Big Four, now against another. But let me get them all together, like the four knaves in the pack of cards, and then, with one coup, I destroy them all!" "And how do you propose to get them all together?" I asked. "By awaiting the supreme moment. By lying perdu until they are ready to strike." "That may mean a long wait," I grumbled. "Always impatient, the good Hastings! But no, it will not be so long. The one man they were afraid of—myself—is out of the way. I give them two or three months at most." His speaking of some one being got out of the way reminded me of Ingles and his tragic death, and I remembered that I had never told Poirot about the dying Chinaman in St. Giles' Hospital. He listened with keen attention to my story. "Ingles's servant, eh? And the few words he uttered were in Italian? Curious." "That's why I suspected it might have been a plant on the part of the Big Four." "Your reasoning is at fault, Hastings. Employ the little gray cells. If your enemies wished to deceive you they would assuredly have seen to it that the Chinaman spoke in intelligible pigeon English. No, the message was genuine. Tell me again all that you heard?" "First of all he made a reference to Handel's Largo, and then he said something that sounded like 'carrozzo'—that's a carriage, isn't it?" "Nothing else?" "Well, just at the end he murmured something like 'Cara' somebody or other—some woman's name. Zia, I think. But I don't suppose that that had any bearing on the rest of it." "You would not suppose so, Hastings. Cara Zia is very important, very important indeed." "I don't see—" "My dear friend, you never see—and anyway the English know no geography." "Geography?" I cried. "What has geography got to do with it?" "I dare say M. Thomas Cook would be more to the point." As usual, Poirot refused to say anything more—a most irritating trick of his. But I noticed that his manner became extremely cheerful, as though he had scored some point or other. The days went on, pleasant if a trifle monotonous. There were plenty of books in the villa, and delightful rambles all around, but I chafed sometimes at the forced inactivity of our life, and marvelled at Poirot's state of placid content. Nothing occurred to ruffle our quiet existence, and it was not until the end of June, well within the limit that Poirot had given them, that we had our news of the Big Four. A car drove up to the villa early one morning, such an unusual event in our peaceful life that I hurried down to satisfy my curiosity. I found Poirot talking to a pleasant-faced young fellow of about my own age. He introduced me. "This is Captain Harvey, Hastings, one of the most famous members of your Intelligence Service." "Not famous at all, I'm afraid," said the young man, laughing pleasantly. "Not famous except to those in the know, I should have said. Most of Captain Harvey's friends and acquaintances consider him an amiable but brainless young man—devoted only to the trot of the fox or whatever the dance is called." We both laughed. "Well, well, to business," said Poirot. "You are of opinion the time has come, then?" "We are sure of it, sir. China was isolated politically yesterday. What is going on out there, nobody knows. No news of any kind, wireless or otherwise, has come through—just a complete break—and silence!" "Li Chang Yen has shown his hand. And the others?" "Abe Ryland arrived in England a week ago, and left for the Continent yesterday." "And Madame Olivier?" "Madame Olivier left Paris last night." "For Italy?" "For Italy, sir. As far as we can judge, they are both making for the resort you indicated—though how you knew that—" "Ah, that is not the cap with the feather for me! That was the work of Hastings here. He conceals his intelligence, you comprehend, but it is profound for all that." Harvey looked at me with due appreciation, and I felt rather uncomfortable. "All is in train, then," said Poirot. He was pale now, and completely serious. "The time has come. The arrangements are all made?" "Everything you ordered has been carried out. The governments of Italy, France and England are behind you, and are all working harmoniously together." "It is, in fact, a new Entente," observed Poirot dryly. "I am glad that Desjardeaux is convinced at last. Eh bien, then, we will start—or rather, I will start. You, Hastings, will remain here—yes, I pray of you. In verity, my friend, I am serious." I believed him, but it was not likely that I should consent to being left behind in that fashion. Our argument was short but decisive. It was not until we were in the train, speeding towards Paris that he admitted that he was secretly glad of my decision. "For you have a part to play, Hastings. An important part! Without you, I might well fail. Nevertheless, I felt that it was my duty to urge you to remain behind." "There is danger, then?" "Mon ami, where there is the Big Four there is always danger." On arrival in Paris, we drove across to the Gare de l'Est, and Poirot at last announced our destination. We were bound for Bolzano and Italian Tyrol. During Harvey's absence from our carriage I took the opportunity of asking Poirot why he had said that the discovery of the rendezvous was my work. "Because it was, my friend. How Ingles managed to get hold of the information I do not know, but he did, and he sent it to us by his servant. We are bound, mon ami for Karersee, the new Italian name for which is Lago di Carezza. You see now where your 'Cara Zia' comes in and also your 'Carrozza' and 'Largo'—the Handel was supplied by your own imagination. Possibly some reference to the information coming from the 'hand' of M. Ingles started the train of association." "Karersee?" I queried. "I never heard of it." "I always tell you that the English know no geography. But as a matter of fact it is a well-known and very beautiful summer resort, four thousand feet up, in the heart of the Dolomites." "And it is in this out of the way spot that the Big Four have their rendezvous?" "Say rather their headquarters. The signal has been given and it is their intention to disappear from the world and issue orders from their mountain fastness. I have made the inquiries—a lot of quarrying of stone and mineral deposits is done there, and the company, apparently a small Italian firm, is in reality controlled by Abe Ryland. I am prepared to swear that a vast subterranean dwelling has been hollowed out in the very heart of the mountain, secret and inaccessible. From there the leaders of the organisation will issue by wireless their orders to their followers who are numbered by thousands in every country. And from that crag in the Dolomites the dictators of the world will emerge. That is to say—they would emerge were it not for Hercule Poirot." "Do you seriously believe all this, Poirot? What about the armies and general machinery of civilisation?" "What about it in Russia, Hastings? This will be Russia on an infinitely larger scale—and with this additional menace—that Madame Olivier's experiments have proceeded further than she has ever given out. I believe that she has, to a certain extent, succeeded in liberating atomic energy and harnessing it to her purpose. Her experiments with the nitrogen of the air have been very remarkable, and she has also experimented in the concentration of wireless energy, so that a beam of great intensity can be focused upon some given spot. Exactly how far she has progressed, nobody knows, but it is certain that it is much farther than has ever been given out. She is a genius, that woman—the Curies were as nothing to her. Add to her genius the powers of Ryland's almost unlimited wealth, and, with the brain of Li Chang Yen, the finest criminal brain ever known, to direct and plan—eh bien, it will not be, as you say, all jam for civilisation." His words made me very thoughtful. Although Poirot was given at times to exaggeration of language, he was not really an alarmist. For the first time I realised what a desperate struggle it was upon which we were engaged. Harvey soon rejoined us and the journey went on. We arrived at Bolzano about midday. From there the journey on was by motor. Several big blue motor-cars were waiting in the central square of the town, and we three got into one of them. Poirot, notwithstanding the heat of the day, was muffled to the eyes in greatcoat and scarf. His eyes and the tips of his ears were all that could be seen of him. I did not know whether this was due to precaution or merely his exaggerated fear of catching a chill. The motor journey took a couple of hours. It was a really wonderful drive. For the first part of the way we wound in and out of huge cliffs, with a trickling waterfall on one hand. Then we emerged into a fertile valley, which continued for some miles, and then, still winding steadily upwards, the bare rocky peaks began to show with dense clustering pine woods at their base. The whole place was wild and lovely. Finally a series of abrupt curves, with the road running through the pine woods on either side, and we came suddenly upon a big hotel and found that we had arrived. Our rooms had been reserved for us, and under Harvey's guidance we went straight up to them. They looked straight out over the rocky peaks and the long slopes of pine woods leading up to them. Poirot made a gesture towards them. "It is there?" he asked in a low voice. "Yes," replied Harvey. "There is a place called the Felsenlabyrynth—all big boulders piled about in a most fantastic way—a path winds through them. The quarrying is to the right of that, but we think that the entrance is probably in the Felsenlabyrynth." Poirot nodded. "Come, mon ami," he said to me. "Let us go down and sit upon the terrace and enjoy the sunlight." "You think that wise?" I asked. He shrugged his shoulders. The sunlight was marvellous—in fact the glare was almost too great for me. We had some creamy coffee instead of tea, then went upstairs and unpacked our few belongings. Poirot was in his most unapproachable mood, lost in a kind of reverie. Once or twice he shook his head and sighed. I had been rather intrigued by a man who had got out of our train at Bolzano, and had been met by a private car. He was a small man, and the thing about him that had attracted my attention was that he was almost as much muffled up as Poirot had been. More so, indeed, for in addition to greatcoat and muffler, he was wearing huge blue spectacles. I was convinced that here we had an emissary of the Big Four. Poirot did not seem very impressed by my idea, but when, leaning out of my bedroom window, I reported that the man in question was strolling about in the vicinity of the hotel, he admitted that there might be something in it. I urged my friend not to go down to dinner, but he insisted on doing so. We entered the dining-room rather late, and were shown to a table by the window. As we sat down, our attention was attracted by an exclamation and a crash of falling china. A dish of haricots verts had been upset over a man who was sitting at the table next to ours. The head waiter came up and was vociferous in apologies. Presently, when the offending waiter was serving us with soup, Poirot spoke to him. "An unfortunate accident, that. But it was not your fault." "Monsieur saw that? No, indeed it was not my fault. The gentleman half sprung up from his chair—I thought he was going to have an attack of some kind. I could not save the catastrophe." I saw Poirot's eyes shining with the green light I knew so well, and as the waiter departed he said to me in a low voice:— "You see, Hastings, the effect of Hercule Poirot—alive and in the flesh?" "You think—" I had not time to continue. I felt Poirot's hand on my knee, as he whispered excitedly: "Look, Hastings, look. His trick with the bread! Number Four!" Sure enough, the man at the next table to ours, his face unusually pale, was dabbing a small piece of bread mechanically about the table. I studied him carefully. His face, clean-shaven and puffily fat, was of a pasty, unhealthy sallowness, with heavy pouches under the eyes and deep lines running from his nose to the corners of his mouth. His age might have been anything from thirty-five to forty-five. In no particular did he resemble any one of the characters which Number Four had previously assumed. Indeed, had it not been for his little trick with the bread, of which he was evidently quite unaware, I would have sworn readily enough that the man sitting there was some one whom I had never seen before. "He has recognised you," I murmured. "You should not have come down." "My excellent Hastings, I have feigned death for three months for this one purpose." "To startle Number Four?" "To startle him at a moment when he must act quickly or not at all. And we have this great advantage—he does not know that we recognise him. He thinks that he is safe in his new disguise. How I bless Flossie Monro for telling us of that little habit of his." "What will happen now?" I asked. "What can happen? He recognises the only man he fears, miraculously resurrected from the dead, at the very minute when the plans of the Big Four are in the balance. Madame Olivier and Abe Ryland lunched here to-day, and it is thought that they went to Cortina. Only we know that they have retired to their hiding place. How much do we know? That is what Number Four is asking himself at this minute. He dare take no risks. I must be suppressed at all costs. Eh bien, let him try to suppress Hercule Poirot! I shall be ready for him." As he finished speaking, the man at the next table got up and went out. "He has gone to make his little arrangements," said Poirot placidly. "Shall we have our coffee on the terrace, my friend? It would be pleasanter, I think. I will just go up and get a coat." I went out on to the terrace, a little disturbed in mind. Poirot's assurance did not quite content me. However, so long as we were on our guard, nothing could happen to us. I resolved to keep thoroughly on the alert. It was quite five minutes before Poirot joined me. With his usual precautions against cold, he was muffled up to the ears. He sat down beside me and sipped his coffee appreciatively. "Only in England is the coffee so atrocious," he remarked. "On the continent they understand how important it is for the digestion that it should be properly made." As he finished speaking, the man from the next table suddenly appeared on the terrace. Without any hesitation, he came over and drew up a third chair to our table. "You do not mind my joining you, I hope," he said in English. "Not at all, monsieur," said Poirot. I felt very uneasy. It is true that we were on the terrace of the hotel, with people all round us, but nevertheless I was not satisfied. I sensed the presence of danger. Meanwhile Number Four chatted away in a perfectly natural manner. It seemed impossible to believe that he was anything but a bona fide tourist. He described excursions and motor trips, and posed as quite an authority on the neighbourhood. He took a pipe from his pocket and began to light it. Poirot drew out his case of tiny cigarettes. As he placed one between his lips, the stranger leant forward with a match. "Let me give you a light." As he spoke, without the least warning, all the lights went out. There was a chink of glass, and something pungent under my nose, suffocating me— About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Agatha Christie (2023). The Big Four. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. 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Cortana, the menial helper incorporated into Windows 10, empowers you to finish a scope of undertakings by composing or talking easy to use orders into your PC’s amplifier. Empowering Cortana in-program settings in the Microsoft Edge internet browser gives much more advantages. Advantages of Using Cortana With Microsoft Edge From setting updates in your schedule to getting the most recent reports on your preferred games group, Cortana goes about as your very own secretary. The advanced partner additionally empowers you to perform different capacities inside the Windows working framework, for example, propelling an application or sending an email. Another advantage Cortana offers is the capacity to communicate with Microsoft Edge, permitting you to submit search inquiries, dispatch website pages, and even send orders or pose inquiries without leaving the momentum site page—all gratitude to the Cortana sidebar, situated inside the program itself. How to Activate Cortana in Windows 10 Before you can utilize Cortana in Microsoft Edge, you should enact it in the working framework. To do that, total the accompanying advances: In the Windows toolbar, select the Windows search symbol.In search, type Cortana. A white hover shows up in the Windows toolbar. Windows takes you through the initiation procedure. Cortana utilizes a great deal of individual information, for example, your area history and schedule subtleties, so you have to pick in before proceeding. On the Windows toolbar, select the Cortana symbol (the white hover) to pose inquiries or run look. How Use Voice Recognition While you can utilize Cortana by composing in the hunt box, its discourse acknowledgment usefulness makes things significantly simpler. There are two different ways that you can submit verbal orders. The principal strategy includes choosing the Cortana symbol in the Windows toolbar. When chosen, the going with content should understand Listening, so, all things considered you can simply talk whatever orders or search questions you need to send to Cortana. The subsequent technique is much less difficult however should be empowered before it gets open. Select the Cortana symbol. In the Cortana window, select Settings In Talk to Cortana, turn on the Hey Cortana alternative. When enacted, you’ll can train Cortana to either react to anybody or just to your individual voice. Since you’ve empowered this component, the voice-enacted application will start tuning in for your orders when you state “Hello Cortana.” Empowering Cortana to Work in Microsoft Edge Since you’ve actuated Cortana in Windows 10, it’s an ideal opportunity to empower it inside Microsoft Edge. To do as such, complete the accompanying advances: Open a Microsoft Edge program window. Select the More activities symbol, spoke to by three specks.Select Settings.In the sidebar, select Advanced Settings. Under Cortana, for Have Cortana help me in Microsoft Edge, select On. How to Manage the Data That Cortana and Microsoft Edge Generate Much the same as the reserve, treats, and other information is put away locally while you surf the web, perusing and search history are likewise saved money on your hard drive, in the Notebook, and now and then on the Bing dashboard (contingent upon your settings) when you use Cortana with Microsoft Edge. To oversee or clear perusing/search history put away on your hard drive, adhere to the directions in our Microsoft Edge private information instructional exercise. To erase search history put away in the cloud, total the accompanying advances: Come back to Cortana Settings interface. In the sidebar, select Permissions. Select Change what Cortana thinks about me in the cloud. In What Cortana thinks about you, select Clear. Previously published at http://kbwebdeveloper.in/instructions-to-use-cortana-in-the-microsoft-edge-browser/

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Cortana is Microsoft’s menial helper that comes incorporated into Windows 10. In case you’re having issues with Cortana, or on the off chance that you don’t need it recording and putting away your own data, there are a couple of approaches to briefly or for all time turn off Cortana in Windows 10. Disable Cortana Temporarily On the off chance that Cortana some of the time enacts when you don’t need it to, yet you despite everything need to have the option to initiate it physically, the initial step is to ensure that Cortana won’t react to your voice: Type Cortana in the Windows search box and select Cortana and Search Settings. Select the Talk to Cortana tab and ensure the Hey Cortana and Keyboard alternate way switches are set to Off. For most clients, debilitating Cortana’s capacity to consequently react to a voice order or a console alternate route is sufficient. This will forestall Cortana from consistently initiating unintentionally, however it won’t influence your inquiry experience, and everything will keep on working as should be expected. Instructions to Prevent Cortana From Recording and Storing Your Search Habits and History A few clients have protection worries about Cortana and Microsoft monitoring their pursuit accounts and propensities in the cloud. Totally handicapping Cortana is one approach to manage this worry, or you can kill each setting that permits Cortana to record and store data about you: Type Cortana in the Windows search box and select Cortana and Search Settings. Select the Permissions and History tab, at that point look down the page and set all choices to Off. Look back to the highest point of the page and select Manage the data Cortana can access from this gadget. Set All Options to Off. Look down the page and select Speech security settings. Set the Online Speech Recognition change to Off. Select the back bolt in the upper left corner of the window twice to come back to the Cortana settings page, at that point select Change what Cortana thinks about me in the Cloud. Your Personal Information page will stack in the Start board. Look to the base of the window and select Clear. Cortana will at present be introduced on your PC, yet it won’t have the option to accumulate data, report data to Microsoft, or connect with you in any capacity. In the event that you wish to utilize Cortana later on, change the entirety of the settings back to the On position. Disable Cortana Permanently in Windows 10 Home Edition, Pro, and Enterprise Cortana is vigorously incorporated into the Windows 10 pursuit usefulness, so completely crippling it might affect your client experience. In any case, clients of Windows 10 Home Edition can incapacitate Cortana with the Registry Editor device. Clients of Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise can utilize either the Registry Editor or the Group Policy Manager. Disable Cortana in the Windows Registry After you have made a framework reestablish point, and you’re certain beyond a shadow of a doubt you need to for all time handicap Cortana, at that point you should open the Registry Editor: Right-click the Windows symbol and select Run to open the order brief. Type regedit and press Enter on the console. Explore to HKEY_Local_Machine > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft > Windows, at that point right-click the Windows registry and select New > Key.Name the new organizer Windows Search Right-click the Windows Search organizer and select New > DWORD (32-piece) Value.Name the new document AllowCortana. Double tap the AllowCortana record to open it, set the incentive to 0, at that point select OK. Close the Registry Editor and restart your PC. Turn Cortana Back on the off chance that You Disabled It through Regedit On the off chance that you alter your perspective on crippling Cortana, or in the event that something turns out badly, at that point the least demanding approach to walk out on is to utilize a framework reestablish point. You can likewise have a go at returning into the Registry Editor and erasing the AllowCortana document you made. Disable Cortana Permanently in Group Policy Editor Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise clients can impair Cortana through the Registry Editor, however they have another choice that is somewhat more secure. To kill Cortana utilizing of the Group Policy Editor: Press Windows + R to open the order brief, type gpedit.msc into the container, and afterward press Enter. Explore to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search, at that point double tap Allow Cortana in the correct sheet. Select Disabled, Then Select Ok. Close the Group Policy Editor and restart your PC. Previously published at http://kbwebdeveloper.in/instructions-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/

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The Issue With Amazon’s Echo Show When I first saw the I had two (negative) gut reactions Amazon Echo Show I hope this bombs because it’s just an IPad with voice control on a black box. If innovation is ‘ , then Amazon missed the memo by releasing Echo Show. But we fawn because it’s Amazon. , as far as we all know, not part of the consideration set in building it. A and I remember a few investors suggesting it was either not necessary or could be copied by any of the big firms. And now we’re all gushing over it… This is not innovation! something different that has impact’ Tech folk will ascribe qualities to the product that were friend pitched this idea in 2014 It’s just another device that adds to clutter in the home. I can already call my family using Facetime!! So why do I need the Echo Show? Conversational UI (‘ ) is great until you need to input instructions or sequences that make up a Skill (night time mode: Switch off the light, enable security etc). Amazon is just trying to get a device in the home to bypass voice input into Alexa (which is currently done) through Apple/Android devices. Does that improve my life? Amazon’s Echo Show Has Nothing To Do With Customer Needs!?!! Alexa play Esperanza Spalding’ As I suggest in my upcoming book ‘ ’ (pre-order), the smart home — a home plastered with all sorts of Internet of Things devices that relay information to a cloud based service provider somewhere out there - is the next platform for capturing context, attention and intent. Like the internet enabled computer and the smartphones before it, the smart home enables the tech companies to harness all the information they can about you and I, to sell to the highest bidder (or in the case of Amazon, to get us to buy more products). And we know that ‘ ’. Amazon, with all it’s smart home products, is trying to capture the home by focusing on convenience. But why? First we have to understand the possible areas of value creation in the smart home. The Antifragile Grid he who owns the customer (home), captures the prize So What Does A Smart Home Actually Do? Adding the words or in front of the word home obscures the fact that the things that truly matter to us, in said homes, are connected smart Safety Comfort Convenience The competition to provide smart safety in our homes is stiff; , , and a slew of other products are duking it out. Comfort, a more nebulous concept, is being provided through devices like (and other smart lightbulbs), etc. Convenience is where Amazon found their niche and snuck in with the (and all it’s variations). As much as we can achieve all these things with IoT technology, the unfortunate situation we find ourselves in is that these devices now seem to be causing more clutter than addressing the needs we have. We now live in a world where 152k results. Ring August Nest Protect Cree’s dimmable smart lightbulbs Sonos speakers Echo a search for ‘Smart home’ on Amazon yields ~ More Smart Home Devices Than We Need!! For Amazon to add another frivolous and non-innovative product to that list smacks of something more than just a push for . Or is it? What is the point here? … thin-margins-on-another-device Amazon is a company that has proven time and time again that it gets the long-term strategic approach to business. So there is something here Smart Home startups, courtesy of CBInsights Or is it Strategy? The best strategies are simple and obvious. But only in hindsight. Amazon’s strategy here might be one of two. Either one, when the story gets told, will probably show cleverness that was obvious and impressive. : Voice controlled assistance, for the home, was Amazon’s thing. When Echo launched, it wasn’t clear that adoption would be as massive as it’s been. Now everyone is building their own device. . And knowing Jeff Bezos’ approach to competition, he doesn’t like that. , on the face of it, seem strategically directed at capturing a new market but are actually intended to increase your competitors costs to compete. Especially if you are the market leader in a space. The Echo Show makes sense as a diversionary tactic to impose costs on Amazon’s competitors (Google, Microsoft and Apple) who are all releasing products that compete directly with the original Echo. Diversionary That 100% market share, it’s now more like 70% A great way of weakening your competitor is by taking actions that : Technology is moving at a pace where products and services now become obsolete much quicker than ever before. The Echo Show would suffer this fate, like most other products, if it weren’t part of a broader platform strategy for Amazon. Successful platforms become the standard. To continue along the same path as everyone else, would be to start a voice activated device price war. No one wins a price war in a market that is still in its very early days.It is too early in the life cycle of voice activated devices for fighting a price war. A price war to own the platform would not be out of the question but would erode margins that are still robust enough for everyone to make solid profits. Platform vs Product I have little insight into what the strategy is here, I’m not in and know no one in Amazon leadership, but what I do know is that this has more to do with a competitive strategy than game-changing technological innovation. Because Amazon’s Echo Show is really just an iPad with voice control. The same can be said about Amazon’s Look and . There must be a strategic reason for releasing these products at the pace Amazon seems to have been doing over the last few months. Dash One other thing I do know is that, despite my protestations above, I’ll probably end up with the in my home. Just like I ended up with the Echo… Echo Show If you liked this you should check out ’10 Startup Lessons from 40 Books I read in 2017 ', ‘ 9 Books To Boost Your Understanding of Technology Systems ’ and my book 40 Semi-Obvious Startup Lessons . Please like, tweet, share and heart the article if you enjoyed reading it. Sign up for my Polymathic Monthly Newsletter here , you’ll love it. Also, check out HarperJacobs for compelling content creation & Asha Labs for innovation/strategy consulting .

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may not deliver the AI revolution you have been led to expect. Is this season of hype simply a repeat of that of the late ’80s, just at a much bigger scale? Perhaps Winter is coming again for the Beatles-era technology, based as it is on the Neuroscience of WWII and the Statistical Mechanics of Victorian times. Fortunately, the renewed energy, enthusiasm, and investment in Deep Learning need not go to waste, if a new approach can fuse recent knowledge from Computational Neuroscience and Applied Mathematics with the power of today’s GPUs. The is both an accurate description of how the brain really works, and a blueprint for Machine Intelligence. Combining recent discoveries in the Applied Maths of coupled, communicating, chaotic Dynamical Systems with those in Neuroscience, we formed a year ago to turn into and build a foundation for a new AI technology. Deep Learning Feynman Machine Ogma theory working software I won’t dwell too much on why I believe the Deep Learning boom of today is not the panacea it has been hyped up to appear. Many of DL’s own long-ignored and newly-lauded leaders are already doing so ( , and most prominent among them), despite their recent high-profile appointments and astronomical financial underwriting. To varying degrees, they are now looking beyond the recent successful applications of DL, and seeking new ideas which might provide the next step forward. Yoshua Bengio Yann LeCun Geoff Hinton The main weaknesses of DL (as I see them) are: reliance on the simplest possible model neurons (“cartoonish” as LeCun calls them); use of ideas from 19th century Statistical Mechanics and Statistics, which are the basis of energy functions and log-likelihood methods; and the combination of these in techniques like backprop and stochastic gradient descent, leading to a very limited regime of application (offline, mostly batched, supervised learning), requiring highly-talented practitioners (aka “ ”), large amounts of expensive labelled training data and computational power. While great for huge companies who can lure or buy the talent and deploy unlimited resources to gather data and crunch it, DL is simply neither accessible nor useful to the majority of us. Stochastic Graduate Descent The Feynman Machine, on the other hand, uses learning from entire fields of study which simply didn’t exist before the 1960s and ’70s. For the first time, they are combined in a model which describes how the neocortex processes high-velocity, streaming sensory data and produces behaviour and cognition, and is also a novel architecture for intelligent machines. I’ll briefly describe these results and how they are used in the natural and artificial Feynman Machines. The first thing to learn about is the branch of Applied Mathematics which examines the properties of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDSs), known popularly as Chaos Theory. Most phenomena in science (both natural and human) can only be modelled accurately as NDSs, but this was not practical until computers became widely available in the early 1960s. The landmark by Edward Lorenz is widely considered to be the first detailed description of an entirely unknown class of behaviour: deterministic chaos. While literally impossible to deal with using traditional mathematical tools, systems involving NDSs have such rich structure, and are so pervasive in nature, that their study has dominated Applied Mathematics for over forty years. 1963 paper In 1978, discovered something unexpected about signals coming out of chaotic systems: they contain all the information needed to reconstruct the entire temporal behaviour of the chaotic system and predict its future, without of the actual mechanism driving the system. In 1981, Floris Takens on this startling fact. The following video from George Sugihara’s lab briefly describes how the Theorem works and how reconstruction can be used to examine and analyse NDSs (here the Lorenz system is used for illustration): Packard et al any knowledge whatsoever proved his famous Theorem The causality criterion described in the video has since become known as Sugihara Causality, and is much more powerful than the Granger Causality traditionally used in Statistics and , due to its use of the temporal structure in the time series signals. is one of the leading figures applying these powerful methods in areas as diverse as fishery sustainability and gene networks. machine learning George Sugihara The central idea of the Feynman Machine is that regions of the brain form a network of NDSs which communicate and cooperate by sending one another time series of nerve signals, and cognition emerges from the causal interactions of the coupled Dynamical Systems. The Applied Mathematics tells us that this is possible, but we now need to look to Neuroscience to explain how exactly this might occur in real brains. In 1986, future Palm founder Jeff Hawkins wrote a in which he describes a model of neocortex which is constantly predicting its own future evolution. Due to a lack of interest in Theoretical Neuroscience at the time, it was not until the early 2000s that Hawkins was able to return to this idea and devote his entire time to leading its development. He wrote with Sandra Blakeslee, formed the (now part of UC Berkeley), and co-founded , where his theory, now known as Hierarchical Temporal Memory, continues to be researched and developed. Hawkins (along with Numenta colleagues Subutai Ahmad and Yuwei Cui) bases all of his theory on hard Neuroscience, with nothing included unless there is strong evidence of it in the brain. In 2013, Numenta open-sourced their NuPIC HTM software, and I became part of the worldwide community which has joined Hawkins in exploring HTM as a cortical model and a promising machine learning technology. My 2015 was the first deep mathematical description of how HTM works. thesis proposal On Intelligence Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Numenta paper That paper was the first of a pair which outlined the discovery I’d made in 2015, that the mechanisms of coupled NDSs were the secret source of computational power in the mammalian brain. The insight was triggered when I saw by Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute and took her courses on the . I was too old to have been taught any of this in University, so this was the first time I had the chance to learn about the vast world of complex systems and the power of methods developed very recently to explore and exploit them. this talk Complexity Explorer MOOC website My second paper — — outlines how the brain might act as a new kind of computing machine, using Takens’ Theorem to process streaming data, emergently self-organise cognition, and behave intelligently. HTM was used to demonstrate the direct connection between neurons in layers of neocortex and the emergent processing of networked NDSs. Since Numenta already had working software which emulates cortical computation in small regions, I proposed that intelligent machines could be feasible simply by building the right kind of network of such modules. Symphony from Synapses: Neocortex as a Universal Dynamical Systems Modeller using Hierarchical Temporal Memory We now know (h/t George Sugihara) that there is of the Feynman Machine process in real primate neocortex. Interestingly, this analysis used Takens’ Theorem and Sugihara’s methods to find the causal network across over a hundred brain regions (Tajima won for the paper). Just weeks ago, the same team between this kind of analysis and Tononi-Koch Information Integration Theory. strong evidence this prize established a link Around the same time in late 2015, Eric Laukien was developing , loosely based on ideas we’d been discussing in the HTM community. In January 2016, Eric, our friend Richard Crowder, and I (with support from Eric’s father Marc) formed to develop a new technology by fusing the theory with Eric’s experience in GPU-powered machine learning. Ogma is named after , or Ogmios, a Gaelic demigod of learning and poetry, and the reputed inventor of Ireland’s first writing system, Ogham. high-performance GPU technology Ogma Ogma mac Elathan Last September, we published on what we now call the , and released the first version of our . our first paper Feynman Machine OgmaNeo software suite As predicted by the theory, a brain region is only one example of a wide variety of adaptively-learning NDSs which, when wired together appropriately, will self-organise and emergently co-operate to form a Feynman Machine. There is no need to mimic all the details of real neurons (as seen in Human Brain Project models), nor even the simpler abstraction of neurons, columns and layers in HTM. Similarly, traditional Deep Learning gave us some ideas for modelling and implementing high-performance, adaptive data transformations in parallel, but we could avoid many of its limitations too, since each module in the Feynman Machine is a semi-independent predictive learner, and learning is online, local and unsupervised. The Feynman Machine is named in honour of our hero, Richard P. Feynman, for a number of reasons. A pioneer in computing, from Los Alamos to his involvement in early massively parallel algorithms in the 1980’s, he was a colleague of John von Neumann, now a synonym for the architecture of modern digital computers, though von Neumann’s designs were inspired by his understanding of cortical neurons. We hope that Feynman would appreciate the simplicity of these ideas, and might even have figured them out himself, had he lived to see recent progress in Neuroscience and Applied Mathematics. We recently discovered that his , herself an eminent physicist, based one of her seminal papers on Takens’ Theorem. We might justifiably have called it the Feynman-Feynman Machine, since Richard may well have had this insight, if Joan had had the chance to explain the power of NDSs. sister Joan In any case, our paper was listed as among the MIT Technology Review for the week of its publication, and we are presenting posters during March at the upcoming workshop and the , organised by MIT’s (if you’re also attending, please drop by our poster). Best of the Physics arXiv Neuro Inspired Computing Elements AAAI Spring Symposium on the Science of Intelligence Center for Brains, Minds and Machines I’ll explain the details of the Feynman Machine in my next post, but in the meantime here is a recent demo of it in action on the “Hello World” of NDSs, the Lorenz System: The “noisy” Lorenz attractor (based on ) is used here because it’s much more challenging to learn than the vanilla NDS. There are a couple of important points about this demo which might not be obvious. First, the step number at top left is the number of data points the FM has seen since it was initialised randomly, so this is online learning, completely from scratch, with no pretraining. Second, the signal the FM is seeing is just the highly noisy observations, and never the smooth Takens trajectory displayed in most of the video, so the resemblance is due to the FM finding the true signal among the noisy data. Third, this represents the entire 8-layer network running at about 60 steps per second on my Macbook Pro, which includes drawing all the 3D graphics. this recent paper Stay tuned for my second post, which will describe the inner workings of the Feynman Machine.

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