We’ve all been frustrated when talking to a computer. Maybe it can’t understand what you’re saying. Maybe it hears you, but doesn’t understand what you mean. Or maybe it’s just a tedious chat with a cloying personality with whom you’d never choose to associate in real life. Such are the problems of…

At the end of the 20 th century nobody would have ever called a truck driver a “cognitive worker”. At the beginning of the 21 st century, the development of self-driving vehicles based on AI imposes a

Pairing artificial intelligence and the blockchain might be what you would expect from a scammer looking to make a quick buck in 2018. The two concepts, after all, are two of the most buzzed about and least understood ideas in the tech universe. And the blockchain, the database design introduced by…

Noctiluxx/Getty Images When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically

AIMS AND SCOPE In the future autonomous robotic systems are expected to be common, not only in factories and on our roads, but in domestic and health-care situations. This new generation of intelligent machines will be required to act autonomously, yet function as part of our society. Societally…

What a difference a few years makes. In 2015, a LinkedIn snapshot of what it calls the skills gap—a mismatch between the skills workers have and the skills employers seek—showed a national surplus in

A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions. We have a store, check it out! Delivery to Europe and the US! Follow us on Twitter to be notified when we add more countries and designs! Any wis

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! After a lovely summer break, I’m back with new episodes focusing on data, data visualization, and presentation skills. I’m slowing things down a bit this year an

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Imagine an archipelago where each island hosts a single tortoise species and all the islands are connected — say by rafts of flotsam. As the tortoises interact by dipping into one another’s food suppl

We are well aware of the tremendous ability of Chinese people to attract, adopt and copy products and services that mainly come from the United States and Europe. For them, “Internet” is more of an “I

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Download a PDF of this image. I

2 min read · Aug 30, 2018 -- Here’s a totally biased product management tip: Be a team member. Be a participant. Less herding. More doing. Here’s why. The more you get into the business of corralling,

Observing Waves Present Trends and Possibilities < Back to Main Blog List Featured 3D Shared Drawing in Magic Leap & Across devices with Spatiate! Avatar Chat with Savannah Niles Leading Social & Avatars at Magic Leap + More! Magic Leap Play, LEAPcon friends, and the future of XR as Language &…

The Crude way Let us build a crude decision tree which predicts the outcome in probabilities (In Scikit learn, predict method returns the predicted classes while the predict_proba method returns the p

Published in AI Frontiers · 5 min read · Aug 8, 2018 -- Get tickets now at AI Frontiers Conference to hear from this speaker. Slim, quiet, and wearing a pair of thick glasses, Quoc Le does not strike

This is a long article answering the question “How Does Blockchain Work?” to a non-technical reader. You can download a PDF version of this post below. The first blockchain was conceptualized by an in

Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them 3 min read · Jul 5, 2016 -- Whether it is a signup flow, a multi-view stepper, or a monotonous data entry interface, forms are one of the most import

HOT SPOT by James Yu EPISODE 1: DEBUG M y hands shook as bright colors fringed my vision. My synesthesia was becoming stronger, and I wasn't sure why. Maybe my body sensed that we were on the brink of

Daniel Susskind , co-author of The Future of Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts , described a common feature of the many interviews with professionals — lawyers, acco

The spice must flow 9 min read · Jan 12, 2018 -- Naval battle of June 1666 in the Second Anglo-Dutch war. Photo by Culture Club/Getty There’s an old song by They Might Be Giants (originally by Canada’

Published in HackerNoon.com · 5 min read · Jul 22, 2018 -- Well into the 20th century, coal miners brought canaries into coal mines as an early-warning signal for toxic gases, primarily carbon monoxid

Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments The atmosphere of a given space — the light, sounds, and sensorial qualities that make it distinct from other

You can’t swing a bag of cats these days without hitting a company that’s working on AI. The latest, HyperScience, is today coming out of stealth for the first time. Based in New York city, HyperScience is bringing relatively general-purpose AI to market to solve the problem of data processing for…

Remember all that crowing about how design—interactive, user-centered, design-thinky design at scale —would change the world? After the world took a turn, that bombast died down a bit and it’s been mo

The writer’s ultimate guide to Notion 18 min read · Jul 11, 2018 -- It’s might be easier than ever to write everything down, but I swear it’s harder than ever to find anything. I’ve been writing for a

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” — W. Edward Demming Every system serves at least one purpose. That’s what a system is: a set of elements that work in interrelated ways

At the Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, Kathryn Hume pointed me to Ellen Ullman’s excellent book, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology . There’s a lot worth reading here, part

Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers

Credit: Mayur Kakade Getty Images “More is better.” From the number of gigs in a cellular data plan to the horsepower in a pickup truck, this mantra is ubiquitous in American culture. When it comes to

Is Slack making your life unruly? Is nonstop collaboration, conversation and over-communication keeping you from actually getting anything done? Us too. Thanks to Arturo Arrarte, head of growth at Sla

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I remember the moment when code began to interest me. It was the tail end of 2013 and a cult was forming around a mysterious “crypto-currency” called bitcoin in the excitable tech quarters of London,

Everyone needs to feel relevant, to have a stage where they hear applause. For me it’s been work and school. The last several years, L2 has been my identity, as it required my full attention, and I was the man in charge. I grew as a manager, gaining reward from watching others lead and later manage…

Cross-posted from my blog . Also, a keynote at AIDC and SDC Stockholm. Artificial intelligence is the hype we’re knee-deep in at the moment. Everybody says they use it. Some says it will make the worl

Apr 24, 2017 Applications Of Machine Learning For Designers About The Author Lassi A Liikkanen is a digital tinkerer and advocate of user-centricity for almost twenty years. Lassi currently works as D

Image Credit: Montri Nipitvittaya / Shutterstock Ford drove the first automobile down the streets of Detroit in 1890 . It would take another 30 years before the company streamlined production and made