[FRIAM] SavantX in SFe

[Frank Wimberly]

HONE.  What are the words that make up the acronym?

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 8:10 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>>
>
>
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