5 Reasons Why PLCs Drive Industry 4.0 Topics Generating Billion Dollar Markets
New trends in industrial automation such as virtual commissioning, machine learning algorithms, and smart factory concepts need the PLC.
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- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
Daddy's Car and Tasmanian Devils
How do songs created by AI sound like? Check it out here!
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The Unlikely Techie
- Aug 28, 2020
- 3 min
Everything You Need to Know About Recommendation Systems
Recommendation systems seek to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item.
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The Unlikely Techie
- Aug 18, 2020
- 3 min
Let's Talk Digital Detritus: How Much Data Do I Produce?
How much datat do we produce every day? What is a digital footprint and why is there more and more data generated every single day?
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The Unlikely Techie
- Jul 23, 2020
- 2 min
Conditioning Algorithms: Reinforcement Learning - An Introduction
Reinforcement learning is a machine learning field concerned with how software agents should take actions.
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The Unlikely Techie
- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
What Is Edge Computing?
Bringing computation and data storage closer together to improve response time and save bandwidth is the goal of edge computing.
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The Unlikely Techie
- Jun 19, 2020
- 2 min
White Box vs Black Box Models: How Can They Be Used?
Data scientists building or using machine learning models and, therefore, AI systems use such models to describe a system.
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The Unlikely Techie
- Jun 15, 2020
- 3 min
Autonomous Driving - How Close Are We to a Self-Driving World?
It's autonomous driving! This is quite worrisome from a legal point of view, but there is no stopping this future technology!
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The Unlikely Techie
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
What Is Virtual Commissioning?
Virtual Commissioning facilitates the introduction of a production system.
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The Unlikely Techie
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
Smart Factory: Concept or Reality?
The concept of smart factory is nothing less than the attempt to have a factory running by as little human intervention as possible. Huh?!
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The Unlikely Techie
- May 8, 2020
- 3 min
The World of Friendly Fusion
With the Norman fusion device, engineers and scientists are now one step closer to clean fusion energy. What is that - well, it's the future
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The Unlikely Techie
- Apr 29, 2020
- 2 min
On-the-fly And In-vehicle Testing
In this blog post I will explain "on the fly" testing. Also, we'll look at an innovative LED headlamp projection technology. Enjoy!
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The Unlikely Techie
- Apr 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Forklift, Model-Based Design And Rapid Control Prototyping
The thing I've learned while writing this blog post: if you want to have an optimized forklift, use Rapid Control Prototyping.
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The Unlikely Techie
- Apr 17, 2020
- 2 min
What About Making a Digital Twin of The Unlikely Techie?
What is a digital twin? Why do we need them and are engineers already implementing digital twins?
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The Unlikely Techie
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
What is Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation?
What exactly is Hardware-in-the-Loop? What is plant simulation in this context and what has this tractor to do with it?
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The Unlikely Techie
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
How A Success Story about the Hyperloop Changed Everything
I have always been drawn to new challenges and up to this very day, I am always on the lookout for new stories to tell.
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The Unlikely Techie
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
When the Word Hybrid Stops You in Your Tracks
Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of tall buildings under multiple natural hazards was another fascinating story I wrote about.
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