Category Archives: Ideas
Can Cameras know what they are looking at?
It seems that a world where cameras will know what they are looking at has almost arrived. This is exciting stuff because it’s happened fast and it’s powerful. Some 6 years ago I spoke with Roberto Chipola of Cam Uni … Continue reading
Thought, “Compressed Sensing” and the maths behind Occam’s razor
“Praise be to heros neptune, the titanic sails at dawn, everybody’s shouting.. which side are you on.” BD So I’ve been wowed once again by Wired magazine, which seems to have summed up some recent conversations with quite delicious serendipity. … Continue reading
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Place based Alumni Groups
“.. the only sound that’s left, after the ambulances go, is Cinderella sweeping up on desolation row.” B.D. I have just spent three hours in deepest darkest south London, Tulse Hill no less. The trip there was akin to a … Continue reading
Internet-Scale Bus; how we do apps and data in future?
musings on emerging opportunity for young technology companies to make a splash in the domain of “internet-scale bus”, and mash hash. Continue reading
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Analogy Engines – semantic concept description
Some London folks attended a very cool event hosted by BLN and TaylorWessing on 3rd Dec 2009 to network and discuss tech venture in Europe. There I had a fascinating interchange with David Sinclair of Imense and Camtology about “Concept … Continue reading
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Models or stats, is science really dead
I emerged.. but scathed….. from an ignorance session where Ned Wakeman and I tried to discuss web3-4 “fractal semantic data integration, auto-ontology generation” with too few facts to share between us. it came to this: To reason over what action … Continue reading
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Changes to VC #1
Nice post on why VC must change to support a new type of company… by True Ventures, Oleg – thanks for the tip “….the emergence of extreme capital efficiency from new web infrastructures and evolving software architectures has also been … Continue reading
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Cambridge and the new economy. #1
Cambridge and the new economy. #1 Umair Haque: writes….. “The centuries-old institutions of orthodox capitalism cannot support the transition to a hyperconnected global economy. They are increasingly unable to allocate capital efficiently, much less grow it productively. And so what … Continue reading
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OODA LOOPS and Google #1
It seems appropriate to start this post from my iPhone as the subject is about agility. Chet Richards has written an excellent book called “certain to win” which delves in to military strategy and extracts a compelling argument for wining … Continue reading
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Do VC’s reduce prices in hard times?
Do we as VC’s use these tough times to drive down deal prices? This question came up yesterday at the CUE conference. Well I personally think that there is some re-setting of expectations going on in the market place but … Continue reading
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