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.
Critical thinking is the ability to gather and assess evidence and information, and use clear reasoning methods to reach justified conclusions. It also implies to evaluate our thoughts, and learn to refine our thinking process. It is a key skill in the information age, valuable in all disciplines, professions and domains. Now that accessibility to 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 …
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 …
Everything is (almost) ready for the 18th of October, for the 21st. anniversary of PWI (Professional Women International) in Brussels. I’m in the Board of this networking association since May, and I’m enjoying participating on this event organization, though it’s more work than I though! It takes time to put us (professional women) together, just Read More …
Watch out of the dark side of the moon, the Nazis are hiding there and want to invade the Earth! This weekend I had the opportunity to see the projection of Iron Sky, a dark science fiction comedy from the creators of Star Wreck. The film is a Finnish-German-Australian co-production, with a budget of about Read More …
CrowdFlower Reports Revenue of 300% Year Over Year and More Than 300 Million Enterprise Level Crowdsourced Microtasks Completed, Earning #1 Rank in Industry CrowdFlower is a microtasking crowdsourcing enterprise. The company solves information-based problems like product categorization, SEO content creation, web verifications, etc… by splitting the task into small pieces (micro-tasks), and giving them to Read More …
I saw the announcement of a webinar at Standford University on Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, and was curious about it. With such an attractive title, what could it be about? You can check the whole presentation on YouTube, he is announcib his new book, but the idea behind Positive Intelligence is to move yourself Read More …
I just read this article Gosling sails away from Google and Android, where they write about the last move of James Gosling (the father of Java) leaving Google for Liquid Robotics. Check the great autonomous and unmanned maritime vehicle they did: as Gosling says, the whole concept is really cool! Can you imagine the quantity Read More …
G’Day, mate! That’s the morning salute of the Aussies 🙂 We are just back from Australia, where we have been travelling for a month. What a nice country, and what a bunch of friendly people we met down under! With the idea of going so far away, we had prepared ourselves, finding a software to Read More …