“Predictive models are, increasingly, the tools we will be relying on to run our institutions, deploy our resources, and manage our lives. But … these models are constructed not just from data but from the choices we make about which…
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Book Report: Weapons of Math Destruction
Tagged with: bias, big data, Cathy O'Neil, Competitive and Market Intelligence, Deloitte, Duncan Stewart, exploitation, Facebook, false positives, inequality, machine learning, model interpretability, models, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, redlining, Smart People Should Build Things, Success and Luck, The Black Swan, Weapons of Math Destruction
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Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
A Morning with Deloitte: TMT Predictions 2018
On the recommendation of my former colleague Dan Deeth, I spent this morning down at the Tannery listening to Deloitte’s Duncan Stewart (@dunstewart) prognosticate on Technology, Media, and Telecommunications. Dan was unable to attend, as he was in Barcelona this…
Tagged with: 5G, AlphaGo, artificial intelligence, ASIC, augmented reality, automation, Dan Deeth, data reduction, DeepMind, Deloitte, Duncan Stewart, electric vehicles, Elon Musk, FPGA, Gartner, Global Internet Phenomena, Google, Hype Cycle, hyperloop, machine learning, media, Mobile World Congress, model interpretability, Pokemon Go, prediction, prognostication, self-driving cars, smart cities, smartphones, technology, technophobia, telecom, WaveNet, Weapons of Math Destruction
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Posted in Everything, Math and Science
Book Report: Deep Thinking
“Our attitude matters, and not because we can stop the march of technological prowess even if we wanted to, but because our perspective on disruption affects how well prepared for it we will be. There is plenty of room between…
Tagged with: AlphaGo, Amos Tversky, artificial intelligence, automation, Bill Gates, Bounce, chess, competition, Dan Ariely, Daniel Kahneman, Data and Goliath, Deep Thinking, Der Speigel, disruption, expertise, Garry Kasparov, innovation, Larry Smith, Larry Tesler, machine learning, Mikhail Botvinnik, Moravec's Paradox, performance, philosophy, pragmatism, privacy, problem solving, Success and Luck, technology, The Pentagon's Brain, Vasily Smyslov, Weapons of Math Destruction, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
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