[FRIAM] SavantX in SFe

[Steve Smith]

Thinks for the extra references.   I can't penetrate the brochure-speak
either... even HONE which sounds like yet another gussied up machine
learning platform.  Of course, a great deal of the success in that
domain is it's application.   I'm assuming they are stirring in some
Quantum just to create the appearance of an "edge". 

Do you have any more insight into what HONE is beyond the words that
make the acronym?

Heinbockel's other company of record:  Visual Purple
https://visualpurple.com reminds me way too much of the two major
clients that I suffered in the last 12 years... WorldScape and Micoy,
each of whom were aspiring to fill a strong niche in virtual training
and hollywood FX, but they started with modest IP in the multi-camera
capture domain (flat and spherical arrays)...  the websites are slick
enough and have enough implied content for many customers I suspect.   I
think their demo reel would be what makes or breaks them.  And whomever
his "co-founder" might be...

On 9/13/20 5:40 AM, ⛧ glen wrote:
> It seems they're not trying to be a hardware company.
> https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news/savantx-partnering-with-d-wave-to-help-trucking-companies-optimizing-loads-and-driver-retention/
>
> I found no listings in the gov funded contracts databases. But CNN lists them as a PPP recipient:
> https://www.cnn.com/projects/ppp-business-loans/businesses/savantx-inc
>
> My new guess is Ed made a pretty penny in an IPO and has been hunting for the next big wave, buzzwords from AI/ML to data science to QC.
>
> I'm worried that HONE might be an interesting thing that gets occluded by 'entrepreneurship'. 
>
> On September 13, 2020 3:10:25 AM PDT, "⛧ glen" <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the link to that book!
>>
>> I'm unable to pierce the wall of hype around savantx. Ostby's patents
>> are about search and training sims. My guess is they're riding a string
>> of SBIR type funding and have convinced some brass that they can do
>> something cool. I hope it's true and not just hype.
>>
>>
>> On September 12, 2020 6:08:52 PM PDT, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm also interested in the possibility that perspectives such as are
>>> presented in books like Blackfoot Physics
>>> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110248.Blackfoot_Physics> might
>>> have some traction, and the long-shot chance that one of my young Tewa
>>> neighbors, for example,  might grow up and revolutionize this domain
>>> through hybridization of their own cosmological perspectives and those
>>> that lead to our current quantum technology.  
>>>