Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · Jun 26, 2017 -- Most of you guys out there must be thinking... What’s exactly going on around me! What is AI? What is Machine Learning? Am I too late t
Published in Practical by Design · 8 min read · Jul 18, 2017 -- How do you predict, and then shape, the behavior of a population? Or better, how do you design for something that is the collection of c
Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · Jul 3, 2017 -- Before getting into this post, I want to thank all you guys out there who liked and appreciated my first post! I received a lot of messa
While online shopping has taken great strides in recent years, the brick-and-mortar retail hasn’t managed to keep pace. Artificial intelligence now permeates every aspect of ecommerce platforms, especially where customer interactions are involved. Smart product suggestions, AI-powered search,…
Since our Science paper came out it's been evident that people are surprised that machines can be biased. They assume machines are necessarily neutral and objective, which is in some sense true -- in
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s recent announcement that subway turnstile jumpers will no longer face automatic criminal prosecution represents another step in New York City’s gradual reversal
If you’ve ever wanted to train a machine learning model and integrate it with IFTTT, you now can with a new offering from MateLabs . MateVerse , a platform where novices can spin out machine learning
Being a Good Decision Maker Intuitively, being right a lot matters . At the same time, and in contrast, there are often factors outside of our control that determine outcomes. Maybe you’re building an
8 min read · May 22, 2017 -- Curation Markets is a model that allows groups to more effectively coordinate & earn from value they co-create around shared goals. Each topic/meme/idea/goal has an associ
Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · Jul 1, 2017 -- Or how to shoot yourself in the foot with a bazooka. Many of us frown upon the technical debt but generally, it is not a bad thing. Tech
Published in Google Design · 13 min read · Jul 10, 2017 -- 7 steps to stay focused on the user when designing with ML By Josh Lovejoy and Jess Holbrook Machine learning (ML) is the science of helping
Every once in a while, I come across some creative project that sets my brain absolutely on fire. Jon Bois published 17776 today and it immediately ignited every last cortex I’ve got. I’ve been a fan
Reimagining Word Processing 6 min read · Jun 7, 2017 -- Writing is a ancient art form. From Papyrus to MS-Word, the tools we use to write have defined how and what we write. Today, assisted writing to
7 min read · Jul 2, 2017 -- Update: Please read the book Give and Take . Give and Take is not positive or negative. Givers aren’t always just founders (many VC Givers) and Takers aren’t always investo
Type of user interface Not to be confused with natural language user interface . In computing , a natural user interface ( NUI ) or natural interface is a user interface that is effectively invisible,
Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. More in this series Subscribe Permissions and PDF The threat that automation will eliminate a broad sw
WRITING to his wife in May 1942, Evelyn Waugh recounted a true story of military derring-do. A British commando unit offered to blow up an old tree-stump on Lord Glasgow’s estate, promising him that t
From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is communicated in academia, are a different format to newspaper arti
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to the domain of developers and data scientists, says Josh Clark, founder of Big Medium , author of several design books, and the inventor of the Couch 2 5k program. With an unprecedented amount of data being collected and algorithms driving many of our…
Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and co-author of its recent report, Amazon's Stranglehold . We often talk about Amazon as though it were a retailer. It's an unde
Strategic data analytics can reduce shrinkage for retailers, restaurants and manufacturing companies by helping loss prevention pros use early warning indicators to stop problems before they start. According to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, these early warning indicators can be different…
Google is widely known as an advocate of data -based decision making . So, it came as no surprise when it looked to its statisticians to help decode the secret formula to effective management . After gathering and analyzing 10,000 manager observations including performance reviews , surveys, and…
Michael Yamnitsky Contributor Michael Yamnitsky is venture partner at NYC-based venture fund Work-Bench . More posts by this contributor Why Startups Will Dominate The AI-Powered Apps Landscape AI Is About To Go Mainstream And Reshape The Workplace Cloud computing is driving growth at 3 of the 5…
The Only Metric That Matters — Now With Fancy Slides! 5 min read · Jun 25, 2017 -- One question I get asked a lot by founders and product managers I meet is “Are my metrics good enough?” This might re
23 min read · Jun 26, 2017 -- — July 2018 Update — Not Hotdog has been nominated for a primetime Emmy® . Thanks to all the fans for the amazing reception, and to all the people at HBO & Brown Hill Pro
Published in Netflix TechBlog · 10 min read · Jun 20, 2012 -- by Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico (Personalization Science and Engineering) In part one of this blog post, we detailed the different
Pssstt… prefer listening to reading? You can get this article in podcast form , courtesy of good folks at The Frontier, right here. An overlapping confluence of three different technological waves — t
Amazon announced on Friday morning that it’s buying Whole Foods for just under $14 billion, the retailer’s largest acquisition ever. The purchase holds implications for the future of groceries, the en
The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world. Correlation supersedes causation, and science
Thoughts on Conversational UI 5 min read · Jun 12, 2017 -- The biggest conundrum in technology is that it’s harder to tell a computer to do something than it is for the computer to do it. Complex and
Tattoo of Death , Choose Your Own Adventure #22 All maps courtesy of ChooseCo Reading a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book can feel like being lost in a maze and running through twists and turns only to
Blog AI & ML Expertise Google is Rethinking its Business – What About You? Google is Rethinking its Business – What About You? May 26, 2017 by Damian Mingle · 5 min read Google recently started promot
There’s a story told of the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli that a friend showed him the paper of a young physicist that he suspected was not very good but on which he wanted Pauli's views. Pauli
The performance of general and administrative (G&A) functions varies dramatically among companies, and the differential is poised to widen. As new forms of automation—fueled by advances in areas such
This Is How Big Oil Will Die Published in NewCo Shift · 13 min read · May 25, 2017 -- From WHMP / clipart.com It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction. The stee
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