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AI Concepts for Business Applications
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AI Concepts for Business Applications

by Nelson E. Brestoff
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 44m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 10

First Dots

Remember Connect the Dots, a game for children? How about BMEWS, the acronym for the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, a billion-dollar Cold War strategy? Do you recall the criticism leveled at the CIA and the FBI after the September 11 attack in 2001? Did you know that the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has had a program since 2014 to prevent various forms of violence? In the first training session I watched, I finally learned the point of its program: it’s the First Dot that matters.

Let me explain.

In the game that many have played, and which we still present to ­children, a cluster of dots forms some pattern that isn’t recognizable until the dots are connected. The dots may be numbered or lettered, ...

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