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In the future, barriers between businesses will blur - we think of it as community capitalism.
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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.
Alex Carruthers
Sep 8, 202114 min read
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Data science is not really a science anymore
Jan Matousek is a practical data scientist who is more focused on working solutions that shiny toys, sharing his approach to ML in e-comm.
Alex Carruthers
Jul 5, 20218 min read
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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.
Alex Carruthers
May 19, 202110 min read
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Garbage Detection, from Space
Sergey uses satellites to detect garbage and monitor borders. He discusses his approach to business and he casts his mind into the future.
Alex Carruthers
Apr 13, 20218 min read
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Forecasting, a problem every company faces
From crop prediction to predictive resource rostering, every business can benefit from better forecasting.
Alex Carruthers
Mar 10, 20215 min read
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Our algorithms have sex
The father of channel attribution and ex-Googler Gabriel Hughes explains his journey to genetic algorithms and dynamic user interfaces.
Alex Carruthers
Jan 27, 20217 min read
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Adaptability and Survival
After landing a large airline deal, Covid grounded the industry. Survival comes from adaptability, as shown by Taybull's business model.
Alex Carruthers
Dec 1, 20206 min read
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Innovation and Bureaucracy
Steven Boylan paints a picture of the EU public-sector funding landscape and talks about a few of his innovation projects.
Alex Carruthers
Oct 18, 20205 min read
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Performance, not understanding
Markus Schmitt explains how people misunderstand the role of data - it’s about performance, not understanding.
Alex Carruthers
Sep 16, 20204 min read
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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.
Alex Carruthers
Mar 10, 20204 min read
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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.
Alex Carruthers
Oct 15, 20196 min read
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Amazon: business, or machine?
An Amazon employee talked about the firm’s trajectory to automate *everything* - even the generation of ‘business rules’.
Alex Carruthers
Aug 27, 20195 min read
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Trust versus understanding - preventing draconian overrule in ML
Patrick Hall is an expert in the crucial Machine Learning field of 'understanding'; he warns of draconian overrule if the industry fails.
Alex Carruthers
Jul 22, 20198 min read
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Oh F***. I'm the AI expert.
If no one knows what they're talking about, someone needs to start talking...
Alex Carruthers
Jul 11, 20191 min read
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Consumer Feedback as a Sense
How one team built a global central nervous system for feedback.
Alex Carruthers
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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Tensorflow 2.0: Google Got More Pythonic
Tensorflow has updated to integrate with Keras. This is yet another stroke of market dominance from Google.
Alex Carruthers
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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Data Science: IQ Versus Attitude
This is the attitude you need to be successful in data science.
Alex Carruthers
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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Start-up Horsepower
David now has the might of Goliath.
Alex Carruthers
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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You Just Learn to Spot Things
Intelligent people have been shown to have bad memories.
Alex Carruthers
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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Collated Consultant Interviews: End-to-end Frustration!
A collection of my favourite quotes from consultants on the end-to-end frustration in market.
Alex Carruthers
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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