[FRIAM] SavantX in SFe

Sun Sep 13 10:44:42 EDT 2020

Frank -

Sorry... in my attempt to become "more brief" in my rattling on here, I
left a few things out I could have included/referenced.   Also, I've
only penetrated the first layer myself.

From
https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news/savantx-partnering-with-d-wave-to-help-trucking-companies-optimizing-loads-and-driver-retention/

we read:
//

    /"With D-Wave’s quantum services, SavantX has begun offering its
    Hyper Optimization Nodal Efficiency (HONE) technology to solve
    optimization problems to customers such as the Pier 300 container
    terminal project at the Port of Los Angeles."/

I don't find any HONE references in their website... which feels a
little odd...   but not unsurprising for a company just standing up or
in transition.

The most directly relevant to my work is their HyperNav which appears to
be ("nothing more than") a workflow or methodology around projecting 6
dimensions into 3 which might be "nothing more than" a grand tour or
projection-pursuit technique (which is where I was hinting Dave to start
his own pursuit of hyper-platonic solids).  It is a hard problem to
guide naive practitioners to begin to "see" their higher dimensional
data/models in an intuitive way that fits their needs.   Visual Purple
appears to be somewhat "boutique" depending on the talent/genius of
individual 3D animators to customize a data/model treatment that fits
their client's proclivities.   I honor and value that skill but am more
interested, myself in novel methodologies that *support* that kind of
insight/genius.   I'm not sure if HyperNav is that... and I suppose HONE
feels the same way in ??? domain?

- Steve
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On 9/13/20 8:14 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> HONE.  What are the words that make up the acronym?  
>
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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 8:10 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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