Better AI for your Business

Today’s newsletter is a reaction to an article, How to Recognize A.I. snake oil. The author writes about the large and growing number of fake A.I. claims companies are making. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be quite difficult to tell real…

When you’re driving down the street in your car (or it’s driven by A.I., if you’re reading this in the near future) and you want to know if you’re speeding, you look at the speedometer. Pretty simple. That’s a measurement…

Tomorrow we embark on the 20’s! Finally, a decade that’s fun to say. Did anyone ever refer to the last decade as the tens? That’s to say nothing of the “naughts”. This week, I’d like to look at the direction…

Know what I usually think about around the holidays? Models that suddenly don’t work at all. I should explain. A lot of what we do day in and day out revolves around repeatable patterns of user or customer behavior. If…

Companies are moving away from machine learning, quickly. We see it every day; companies are leveraging the power of deep learning - that subset of A.I. based on neural networks that were designed to mimic how our brains learn and…

Want to know what holds projects back? Access to good, clean and reliable data. Sure, it makes sense - we’ve got to get that new product or feature out, and like yesterday. But this isn’t endlessly sciencing away in the…

Do you ever think about how you might be uniquely identified in a huge database of other people/customers? For example, in the United States, we have social security numbers. Each person gets a uniquely identifiable number. Personal email addresses are…

A.I. has come a long way in supporting fashion, a trillion-dollar industry that is still on the rise. In this Tech Tuesday, I’ll discuss some of the big advances we’ve seen and developed for our clients especially where computer vision…

Data science enhances product. It’s part of product. But far too often I see data science teams reporting to the CTO or a technical leader and I think that’s wrong, and part of the reason data science isn’t always as…

Over the months I’ve written Tech Tuesdays I’ve received a lot of positive feedback and praise. Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback and comments! This week, I’m reflecting back on some readers’ comments. If you want to reach me…