There’s been a lot of talk about false positive and false negative rates lately, especially with Covid testing being so widespread. If you receive a negative Covid test with a 90% false negative, does that mean that you only have…
zankJune 1, 2021
Got 15 minutes to watch this thrilling video about the current state and future promises of artificial intelligence? I hope you do, because this week I’m going to give my opinion on a few of these points from a recent…
zankMay 18, 2021
There’s been a lot of talk about non-fungible tokens lately. In a brief departure from all things A.I., this week I’ll go over exactly what NFTs are and how people are using them. What is an NFT? NTF stands for…
zankMay 11, 2021
Recently I started reading a book called Nonviolent Communication. The book really got me thinking about the intricacies of text and communication; in particular, the ways text can be interpreted and even charged. This week I want to talk about…
zankMay 4, 2021
Data labeling is a really big deal. In this week’s Tech Tuesday, I’ll discuss what data labeling is, why it’s so important to A.I., what the biggest players in the data labeling space do, and share my thoughts on the…
zankApril 27, 2021
This week, I’m happy to review a couple of areas where I feel data science is making important moral advances. First of all, the idea of paying users for using their data; and secondly how social networks are testing ways…
zankApril 20, 2021
Data science has the potential to inform critical decisions, allowing companies to automate or scale processes and improve their business. This week, I’ll cover five ways we’ve recently used data science to help our clients improve their bottom line. Some…
zankApril 13, 2021
Sometimes several small solutions perform better than one big one. This week I want to show you why it’s worth considering replacing one big predictive model with multiple smaller ones. This is something we’ve been doing for our clients lately…
zankApril 6, 2021
A.I. is becoming more and more ubiquitous, from recommending the (sometimes only) news we read to assessing our risk and policy specifics for insurance to deciding whether or not we qualify for a mortgage. With such power implicated in A.I.…
zankMarch 2, 2021