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Why and How

Seth Godin asks more questions. He shares my passion for moving beyond the industrial organization of education into something more useful for the students—and also more inclusive of some who are ignored by the system that rewards memorizing and sitting quietly. My...

Context-Driven MRO Optimization for Enterprises

AI Agents (aka AgenticAI) continue to find their way into the news. At least we are finding some reality amongst all the AI hype. This news concerns improving MRO operations. [All hyperbole from the press release.] Verusen launched its groundbreaking Explainability AI...

Off-The-Shelf Palletizing Solution

Perhaps the final news coming my way from Automate 2025 and again robotic-oriented, this news concerns release of an off-the-shelf palletizing solution, said to be the first in North America. Doig Corp. Developed Pallet EZ with OnRobot and its D:PLOY platform. Unlike...

Universal Robots Increases Cobot Speed

More news from Automate. Most of the news has been robotics. This piece reports on Universal Robots introduction of its fastest Cobot, the UR15. Looks like there is still room for improvement in this technology area. They say shipping is to begin in June 2025. The...

Stochastic Parrot

Moira Gunn hosted a linguistics professor called Dr. Emily Bender on her podcast Tech Nation. Bender had released a book with Dr. Alex Hannah, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want.  My interest was piqued when they mentioned a 2021...

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