<div dir="auto">HONE. What are the words that make up the acronym? <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 8:10 AM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thinks for 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">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">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">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">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">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">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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