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A Lateral Puzzle that Will Have You Stumped

Destination Innovation

You are shown into a darkened room and seated in front of a table. You are told that there are 32 coins on the table, 12 are heads up and 20 are tails up. You cannot see anything in the dark. You can touch the coins but you cannot tell which show heads and which show tails. How can you divide the coins into two piles each of which will have an equal number of heads up?

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Leading Through Uncertainty

Digital Tonto

It is through managing complexity, not avoiding it, that we can most effectively impact the world. The truth is that uncertainty is only a problem if you try to control it. The framers of the US. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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THE EXQUISITE CORPSE

Michael Michalko

It is not possible to think unpredictably by looking harder and longer in the same direction. When your attention is focused on a subject, only a few patterns dominate your thinking. These patterns produce predictable ideas no matter how hard you try. In fact, the harder you try, the stronger the same patterns become. If, however, you change your focus and combine your subject with something that is not related, different, unusual patterns are activated.

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Should You Have a Department of Artificial Intelligence?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers Several hospitals, academic medical centers and medical schools are creating artificial intelligence organizational centers, institutes and programs. Examples are Stanford, the University of Colorado , Children’s Hospital of Orange County and Duke.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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HOW TO SEE AND FORCE RELATIONSHIPS INTO NEW IDEAS BETWEEN UNRELATED SUBJECTS

Michael Michalko

If one particular thinking strategy stands out about creative genius, it is the ability to make juxtapositions that elude mere mortals. Call it a facility to connect the unconnected that enables them to see relationships to which others are blind. They set their imagination in motion by using unrelated stimuli and forcing connections with their subject.

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How CX Chatbots are Changing the Way Businesses Interact with The Customer In conversation with Abhishek Shanbhag

Acuvate

With over 15 years of experience working in different parts of the world, Abhishek Shanbhag has gathered a vast repertoire of expertise spanning from marketing to technology. Currently heading the AI and Automation practice area at Acuvate, he is creating new age solution offerings that focus on providing enhanced customer experience and engagement using emerging technologies like AI, Automation, Chatbots, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Machine Learning (ML).

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Episode 086: Creativity Lessons From a Parking Garage

Innovation in Practice

There is an old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. Well, is that really true? Does necessity cause us to want to be more creative? You will find it out on our episode today! What if your parking ticket isn’t working because it’s defective and you get stuck in the parking lot? What would you do in this situation? That actually happened to me when I was traveling recently and the QR code on my parking ticket got smudged. .

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THE EXQUISITE CORPSE

Michael Michalko

It is not possible to think unpredictably by looking harder and longer in the same direction. When your attention is focused on a subject, only a few patterns dominate your thinking. These patterns produce predictable ideas no matter how hard you try. In fact, the harder you try, the stronger the same patterns become. If, however, you change your focus and combine your subject with something that is not related, different, unusual patterns are activated.

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Why Digital Transformation in the Mining Industry is a Necessity

Cascade Strategy

The mining sector is at a pivotal moment in its history due to changes in technology that could transform the industry. While technology adoption has been slow over the past few decades, recent pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain challenges, and falling commodity rates have accelerated the need to rethink how mining operations are performed.

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How To Free Your Mind

helloFUTURE

We all have lots of great ideas. As human beings, I believe that we are all creative – in different ways, of course, but we all have the extraordinary capacity for reason. Nature bestowed human begins with an incredible ability to mimic and learn and grow. As children, we have no filter. So, as part… The post How To Free Your Mind appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.