Data science is not really a science anymore
Jan Matousek is a practical data scientist who is more focused on working solutions that shiny toys, sharing his approach to ML in e-comm.
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Inspired by cross-pollination
In the future, barriers between businesses will blur - we think of it as community capitalism.
Communities succeed because insight cross pollinates and our role is to extract that insight then serve it to you below.
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Alex Carruthers
- May 19, 2021
- 10 min
Without open-source, we wouldn't be here.
Oleguer discusses how remote business hasn't changed much, recalls some fascinating use cases and leaves predictions for the future of AI.
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Alex Carruthers
- Apr 13, 2021
- 8 min
Garbage Detection, from Space
Sergey uses satellites to detect garbage and monitor borders. He discusses his approach to business and he casts his mind into the future.
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Alex Carruthers
- Mar 21, 2021
- 7 min
The Game of ML Models
Manish at Jiva.AI is building a 'game of life' inspired, multi-modal platform to improve the predictive power of healthcare diagnostics.
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Alex Carruthers
- Mar 10, 2021
- 5 min
Forecasting, a problem every company faces
From crop prediction to predictive resource rostering, every business can benefit from better forecasting.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jan 27, 2021
- 7 min
Our algorithms have sex
The father of channel attribution and ex-Googler Gabriel Hughes explains his journey to genetic algorithms and dynamic user interfaces.
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Alex Carruthers
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
Performance, not understanding
Markus Schmitt explains how people misunderstand the role of data - it’s about performance, not understanding.
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Alex Carruthers
- Mar 10, 2020
- 4 min
Community capitalism: launching the Machine Commons
There‘s only one existential truth: we are not alone. We don’t live our personal lives solo. Businesses shouldn’t be isolated, either.
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Alex Carruthers
- Nov 22, 2019
- 6 min
Incentivising social enterprise through technology
Rudradeb is the founder of Omdena, an online ecosystem that self-organises volunteers to tackle social issues with machine learning.
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Alex Carruthers
- Oct 15, 2019
- 6 min
Kaggle: people, we’ve gamified progress
I talk to Kaggle Competition Master Andrey Lukyanenko about how competitions work, and how they’re actually contributing to science.
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Alex Carruthers
- Sep 4, 2019
- 8 min
Data security risks in the modern age
Tom Dalglish is concerned about, erm, a few things.
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Alex Carruthers
- Aug 28, 2019
- 6 min
Core competences
Hot dog, not hot dog. Companies which don’t have data as a core competitive advantage have zero incentive to pioneer ML technology.
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Alex Carruthers
- Aug 27, 2019
- 5 min
Amazon: business, or machine?
An Amazon employee talked about the firm’s trajectory to automate *everything* - even the generation of ‘business rules’.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jul 22, 2019
- 8 min
Trust versus understanding - preventing draconian overrule in ML
Patrick Hall is an expert in the crucial Machine Learning field of 'understanding'; he warns of draconian overrule if the industry fails.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
ML, meet quantum mechanics
When these two technologies collide - and they will, the world will transcend in capability.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
Oh F***. I'm the AI expert.
If no one knows what they're talking about, someone needs to start talking...
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Alex Carruthers
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
Mapping the mind
Mapping the brain could be within reach if deep learning continues the way it is going.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Future of education
No two newsfeeds are the same. Maybe education will follow suit.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
A bridge between data and marketing
Nick Rood works for a company chipping away at the goliath media company budgets - and they don't need many people.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Consumer Feedback as a Sense
How one team built a global central nervous system for feedback.
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