As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change. What's the state of the smartphone, machine learning and 'GAFA', and wha
@Semil Fireside Chat w/ @Chamath StrictlyVC Insider Series September 16, 2015 AutoDesk Gallery SF ( This is the transcript from last night’s chat at Connie’s StrictlyVC Insider Series with Chamath from Social+Capital. I wasn’t on Twitter today but checked in the afternoon and saw that tons of people…
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In recent years, there has been a staggering surge in interest in intelligent systems as applied to everything from customer support to curing cancer. Simply sprinkling the term “AI” into startup pitc
Transmission #2 Published in Transmission · 4 min read · Nov 14, 2016 -- Sign up for updates This week’s newsletter includes using deep learning to: make first impressions, judge a book by its cover,
One of the big trends we’ve seen over the last five years is automation. At the same time, we’re also seeing more intelligence built into tools we already have, like phones and computers. Where do you
Published in Pandemonio · 6 min read · Nov 16, 2016 -- Algorithms are already a part of our everyday lives. They set our credit scores, our insurance premiums, and our welfare payments. They influence
My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was ofte
A critical analysis of what caused confusion on Spokeo’s Person Profiles, and the changes we made to improve our most data-dense product page. Published in UX Collective · 6 min read · Oct 21, 2016 --
Allow Harry Brignull to explain. It happens to the best of us. After looking closely at a bank statement or cable bill, suddenly a small, unrecognizable charge appears. Fine print sleuthing soon provi
Harry Brignull is a London, UK-based independent user experience designer with a PhD in cognitive science. He is also the founder of Dark Patterns , which is dedicated to, in his words, "naming and sh
11 min read · Sep 3, 2016 -- Taking that first step to understanding Functional Programming concepts is the most important and sometimes the most difficult step. But it doesn’t have to be. Not with th
11 min read · Oct 14, 2016 -- Friday, October 14th, 2016 at 6:09 pm TL;DR: JavaScript is too great an opportunity to build accessible, easy-to-use and flexible solutions for the web to not use it. It
8 min read · Oct 10, 2016 -- I love games. It’s proven that games help our psychological state, encourage social connectivity, and generally relieve stress. Much has been written about the effect of g
It’s Zuora’s, and it’s brilliant. Here’s why. Published in Mission.org · 8 min read · Sep 15, 2016 -- A few months ago, my friend Tim took a new sales job at a Series C tech company that had raised ov
GraphQL is a product-developer-friendly and efficient method for fetching structured data from a server, designed to be an alternative to REST. It was developed in 2012 at Facebook, has powered the main iOS and Android apps for over four years, and is now used by dozens of Facebook apps on both…
Tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Google’s DeepMind, Facebook have joined forces to create a non-profit alliance called Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society that will
First intro: Hacker News and Udacity My interest in ml stems back to 2014 when I started reading articles about it on Hacker News. I simply found the idea of teaching machines stuff by looking at data
Always copy pasting the same kind of information in your comps? 4 min read · Jul 30, 2016 -- Let me show you how to improve drastically your workflow by creating your own API that can be used with Cra
Every once in a while, a product comes along that changes everyone's expectations of what's possible in user interfaces. The Mac. The World Wide Web. The iPhone. Alexa belongs in that elite group of g
In the previous instalments of the series, I talked about how early-stage startups can leverage messaging bot to find their product-market fit. I also covered the dilemma of whether bots are here to s
Stephanie Hay Contributor Stephanie Hay is the head of content strategy at Capital One and led the design team that created Capital One’s Amazon Alexa skill earlier this year. Two words: “all set.” People say them every day — after the waiter delivers food, when finishing a customer service call or…
O ver the course of a week in March, Lee Sedol, the world’s best player of Go, played a series of five games against a computer program. The series, which the program AlphaGo won 4-1, took place in
A major battle is brewing between four behemoths of the technology industry. You may not be aware of the fight, but the winner will have a major impact on your future. Apple kicked off this battle off
With only three more years of savings, you can finally afford that two-bedroom condo 11 min read · Aug 15, 2016 -- Photo: yhelfman via iStock/Getty Images Plus Y ou wake up at 6:30 a.m. after an Ambie
Researchers are scrambling to repair and expand data pipes worldwide — and to keep the information revolution from grinding to a halt. Credit: Illustration by Richard Wilkinson On 19 June, several hun
Published in the code economy · 7 min read · Jul 20, 2016 -- Consider the following three maps at the county level in the United States that show: Change in the intensity of Republican and Democrat vo
Published in Social Capital · 15 min read · Jul 31, 2016 -- Hello! If you’re coming here for the first time, thanks for checking out my writing on Medium. I don’t publish much here anymore — I’ve swit
In 1850, a decade before the Civil War, the United States’ economy was small—it wasn’t much bigger than Italy’s. Forty years later, it was the largest economy in the world. What happened in-between wa
We recently asked our Members to recommend a single summer read, and why , and thought we might share some of their recommendations with you. Here are their choices and their reasoning: *** Different:
The way we interact with technology is changing dramatically again. As wearables, homes, and cars become smarter and more connected, we’re beginning to create new interaction modes that no longer rely
It’s not about what it can do, but the effects of its prioritization Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news · 12 min read · Jun 23, 2016 -- As buzzwords become ubiquitous they become easier
What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the Republican National Convention. Published in Welcome to the Scream
Published in Praxis · 16 min read · Jul 18, 2016 -- Nearly every science-fiction novel seems to agree on one thing: in the future, work will be indistinguishable from art. Such wide agreement suggests
It’s not about what it can do, but the effects of its prioritization Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news · 12 min read · Jun 23, 2016 -- As buzzwords become ubiquitous they become easier
36 min read · Jul 6, 2016 -- 2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models . Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995
By Sophie Curtis ,Marketing Director- RE•WORK July 15, 2016 Supervised learning is the machine learning task of inferring a function from labeled training data. The training data consist of a set of training examples. Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning algorithm used to draw…
24 June 2016 Tolga Bolukbasi and colleagues recently posted an article about bias in what is learned with word2vec , on the standard Google News crawl (h/t Jack Clark ). Essentially what they found is
Power to the People: How One Unknown Group of Researchers Holds the Key to Using AI to Solve Real Human Problems 13 min read · Jun 30, 2016 -- In the last few years, a series of spectacular research r
Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel
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