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The year 2017 will probably go down as the year home automation finally went mainstream. Each time I walk into our local Best Buy, numerous people are standing around the home automation section, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. The first thing you will learn about home automation is there is a lot to learn, but, you can still have much fun upgrading your home. This past year I spent much time researching and updating our house to make our life easier. I started small, and every month I added something. If you are looking to get started in home automation, or maybe just a gift for that geeky family member this holiday season, this article will help you get started and give you some&nbsp;ideas.

Getting Started with Home Automation

It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of ‘<a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/voice-assistants" target="_blank">Voice-Assistants</a>’ is growing rapidly. Amazon Alexa <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/amazon-alexa-hits-10000-skills-plenty-room-grow/" target="_blank">recently hit 10,000 skills</a> and there is talk around <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/25/heres-what-will-drive-adoption-for-another-10000-amazon-alexa-skills/" target="_blank">what will drive adoption</a> for the next 10,000. I won’t be diving into specifics and discussing issues like <a href="http://www.recode.net/2017/1/23/14340966/voicelabs-report-alexa-google-assistant-echo-apps-discovery-problem" target="_blank">retention</a>. That is not what this post is about.

Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants

The macrosystems around us (energy, health, food, water) are grand in their scale and interrelated at levels that we are still trying to grasp. Despite our little but growing understanding of complex systems, we know that two things happen when they change:

Convergence of Systems: Utilities, The Built Space and Transportation.

I love <a href="http://amzn.to/2fMCebI" target="_blank">Alexa</a>. Of all the various tech things I’ve bought in 2016, Amazon’s <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/alexa" target="_blank">Alexa</a> has become the most consistently used new thing in my world. I’ve even had a breakthrough on the home front as Amy now regularly says “Alexa, play&nbsp;…” We’ve got them everywhere and the <a href="http://amzn.to/2fRJf5V" target="_blank">Echo Dot</a> that showed up in October is centrally located on my office desk at Foundry Group.

Alexa, What’s Your Favorite Accelerator?

Hacker Noon's annual Noonie awards, hosted on NOONIES.TECH, seeks to find the best minds in the Tech industry today. One such impressive mind is Yassine Rachid from Canada. 

"Despite this Connected World, we Keep Isolating Ourselves" - Yassine Rachid, 2020 Noonie Nominee 

These listings are a critical step in enhancing liquidity, visibility, and accessibility for the UXLINK community.

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Ksenia Mayorova sits down with HackerNoon in a Women in Tech interview.

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This paper presents a theoretical analysis of linear interpolation as a principled method for stabilizing (large-scale) neural network training.

Stable Nonconvex-Nonconcave Training via Linear Interpolation: Acknowledgements & References

Iro is a smart irrigation controller that is powered by Rachio’s intelligent cloud-based software and is controlled via an intuitive, lightning-fast iPhone and Android app or web-dashboard

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