All science is becoming data science
Steve co-founded Curvenote with a mission nothing short of making science better. Dev tricks can be applied to all scientific methodologies.
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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
- 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
- Dec 1, 2020
- 6 min
Adaptability and Survival
After landing a large airline deal, Covid grounded the industry. Survival comes from adaptability, as shown by Taybull's business model.
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Alex Carruthers
- Oct 18, 2020
- 5 min
Innovation and Bureaucracy
Steven Boylan paints a picture of the EU public-sector funding landscape and talks about a few of his innovation projects.
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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
- 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
Consumer Feedback as a Sense
How one team built a global central nervous system for feedback.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Can Knowledge Prevent Understanding?
A quantum scientist turned to data science when he realised machine learning was the thing of the century.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Combined Sciences for Tech Innovation
A single technology that harnesses breakthroughs from quantum mechanics, machine learning (CNN), engineering and blockchain.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Unswayed by Hype
"If there’s no block, and there’s no chain… it’s bullshit!"
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
This Time Feels Different - Machine Learning
Blockchain was a bubble that burst - despite slowly clawing it's way back now, but machine learning feels different. Why? Use cases.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Algorithms and Nature
Was it something we did? - with Luca Baldassarre.
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Alex Carruthers
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
Serendipity and Cross-Pollination
A crucial aspect of progress: harnessing chaos to manufacture luck.
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