Domino’s set out to improve their pizza tracker after realising that some problems could only be solved with AI, like scanning thousands of pizzas and calculating how long until they’re cooked. To do this, they implemented a novel idea: a loyalty program that rewarded customers for eating any pizza, even if it wasn’t from Domino’s. Its purpose was two-fold. Customers had a better experience, while their pizza tracker AI had a new wealth of cooked pizza images to analyse that shot their pizza tracker’s accuracy up by 100%. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
