A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
Using games for brainstorming is really great. Instead of doing a standard meeting, the idea is to set a series of rules, and then play that game. There is a clear beginning, once the rules have been explained and everybody agrees to play by the rules. Then when the game is being played, the participants Read More …
Last week I presented MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at the Professional Women International association in Brussels, Belgium. I had the pleasure of talking to the participants afterwards. They told me they were so pleased to learn they had such an easy way of taking good quality courses that they were going to check that Read More …
In this article of The New York Times David Sreitfeld is discussing a new service ScribD is beginning to offer. Scribd is a subscription-based library, where you can read books through their interface. They are now collecting information from their readers, like how long they stay on a page, the pace on specific chapters, do Read More …
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are very recent, but are quickly gaining popularity. Coursera is one of the big platforms that offer those free courses, along with edX and Khanacademy just to mention a few. Last year I took a fantastic course offered by Coursera called ‘Model Thinking’ given by Prof. Scott E. Page, who’s Read More …
A television screen shows former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden during a news bulletin at a cafe at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport June 26, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin As we already discussed on my Big Data presentations, being able to analyse the amount of data that traces all our actions and movements is a Read More …
Technical and scientific knowledge is growing at a fast speed. This allows for a lot of experimentation and innovation but in order to do it, you need first to acquire very specific knowledge, to educate yourself in many technical disciplines. This is not at everybody’s reach. In particular, it is hardly at reach of non-technical Read More …
It (or he/she?) doesn’t need to, there is now a platform to connect to others. I wouldn’t call it the Facebook for Robots, it’s more like a giant Academia 🙂 but RoboEarth enable robots to share their experiences, their learnings. It is a Cloud environment that allows them also to use external storage and computation Read More …
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is a vast amount of data available on the Internet, a lot of potential information. It is fantastic all the insights we can get from it not only for our businesses, but also for us as consumers, as users of Internet. Lately, when you look for something Read More …
Every day more than 2.5 quintillion (2.5 x 1018 ) bytes of data are created, coming from business and bank transactions, posts on social media sites, digital photos, videos, and other sensors as GPS signal and more. Big Data is the name of the mass of unstructured data available nowadays on Internet. All this large Read More …
“Survival of the fittest” is the leitmotif of Natural Selection. How does “Cooperation” fit into the picture? Martin Nowak, professor at Harvard University, gives us a list on July’s Scientific American of 5 mechanisms he has identified, that overcome natural selection’s predilection for selfish behaviour: Direct reciprocity: This mechanism exists in cultures where people live Read More …