[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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