[FRIAM] SavantX in SFe

Steve Smith sasmyth at swcp.com
Sun Sep 13 10:52:41 EDT 2020


Their IP seems to be in full-text indexing/search/patterning along the
lines of Abe Lederman's Deep Web

    https://www.deepwebtech.com/

On 9/13/20 8:44 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> 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
> //
>
> On 9/13/20 8:14 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>> HONE.  What are the words that make up the acronym?  
>>
>> ---
>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>
>> 505 670-9918
>> Santa Fe, NM
>>
>> 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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