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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">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.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news/savantx-partnering-with-d-wave-to-help-trucking-companies-optimizing-loads-and-driver-retention/">https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news/savantx-partnering-with-d-wave-to-help-trucking-companies-optimizing-loads-and-driver-retention/</a></span></p>
<p>we read:<br>
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float: none;">"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."</span></i></p>
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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">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.<br>
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">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?</span></p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/13/20 8:14 AM, Frank Wimberly
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">HONE. What are the words that make up the
acronym? <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 8:10 AM
Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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the extra references. I can't penetrate the brochure-speak<br>
either... even HONE which sounds like yet another gussied up
machine<br>
learning platform. Of course, a great deal of the success in
that<br>
domain is it's application. I'm assuming they are stirring
in some<br>
Quantum just to create the appearance of an "edge". <br>
<br>
Do you have any more insight into what HONE is beyond the
words that<br>
make the acronym?<br>
<br>
Heinbockel's other company of record: Visual Purple<br>
<a href="https://visualpurple.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://visualpurple.com</a>
reminds me way too much of the two major<br>
clients that I suffered in the last 12 years... WorldScape and
Micoy,<br>
each of whom were aspiring to fill a strong niche in virtual
training<br>
and hollywood FX, but they started with modest IP in the
multi-camera<br>
capture domain (flat and spherical arrays)... the websites
are slick<br>
enough and have enough implied content for many customers I
suspect. I<br>
think their demo reel would be what makes or breaks them. And
whomever<br>
his "co-founder" might be...<br>
<br>
On 9/13/20 5:40 AM, ⛧ glen wrote:<br>
> It seems they're not trying to be a hardware company.<br>
> <a
href="https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news/savantx-partnering-with-d-wave-to-help-trucking-companies-optimizing-loads-and-driver-retention/"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news/savantx-partnering-with-d-wave-to-help-trucking-companies-optimizing-loads-and-driver-retention/</a><br>
><br>
> I found no listings in the gov funded contracts
databases. But CNN lists them as a PPP recipient:<br>
> <a
href="https://www.cnn.com/projects/ppp-business-loans/businesses/savantx-inc"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.cnn.com/projects/ppp-business-loans/businesses/savantx-inc</a><br>
><br>
> 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.<br>
><br>
> I'm worried that HONE might be an interesting thing that
gets occluded by 'entrepreneurship'. <br>
><br>
> On September 13, 2020 3:10:25 AM PDT, "⛧ glen" <<a
href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">gepropella@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
>> Thanks for the link to that book!<br>
>><br>
>> I'm unable to pierce the wall of hype around savantx.
Ostby's patents<br>
>> are about search and training sims. My guess is
they're riding a string<br>
>> of SBIR type funding and have convinced some brass
that they can do<br>
>> something cool. I hope it's true and not just hype.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On September 12, 2020 6:08:52 PM PDT, Steve Smith
<<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> I'm also interested in the possibility that
perspectives such as are<br>
>>> presented in books like Blackfoot Physics<br>
>>> <<a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110248.Blackfoot_Physics"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110248.Blackfoot_Physics</a>>
might<br>
>>> have some traction, and the long-shot chance that
one of my young Tewa<br>
>>> neighbors, for example, might grow up and
revolutionize this domain<br>
>>> through hybridization of their own cosmological
perspectives and those<br>
>>> that lead to our current quantum technology. <br>
>>><br>
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