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.
People encouraging people’s initiatives for the common good: here’s a great use of crowdsourcing for the benefit of the Indian population, and it’s done through crowdfunding! Here’s how the system works: Utility employees call NextDrop’s interactive voice response system when they manually open neighborhood water valves. The system generates text message updates for local residents Read More …
Walter De Brouwer presented yesterday TEDxKids@Brussels, and to add to our excitement, it was held in our neighbourhood! I think my oldest kid learned english more by listening to the TED talks podcasts than with the many lessons her mother made him take :-). Which is not a surprise, if you hear the speakers we Read More …
I am sure you heard already, even if you don’t have a PSP. We can read in The Economist that: Sony revealed that names, addresses, passwords and possibly credit-card details of 77m accounts were stolen when hackers gained access to the network it runs in 60 countries for its PlayStation online-gaming system, as well as Read More …
Look at this Kurzweil news: The brain’s three layers of working memory allow you to multitask They don’t mention it, I’ll have to check in the Cognitive Psychology journal… does this mean not only women but also men can multitask?? :-)) Researchers from Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology have found support for the Read More …
Check the video from Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the “mesh” She shows how this business model works, sharing physical goods peer-to-peer.
I had found in Will Fitzgerald’s post a very clear overview of how search engines work. He’s not going in detail into the machine learning algorithms, but he gives an idea of what kind of problems they have to tackle 🙂 Enjoy the reading! When a search engine, like Bing’s or Google’s says the results Read More …
In 2010 there was much talk of content farms – search-keyword-driven collections of copy written by low-paid writers and edited by low-paid copy editors. And it became commonplace to see Twitter feeds aggregated and displayed on news media web sites and broadcast media. Still, the boundaries between what must done by humans and what can Read More …
Here comes the new Data Loss Prevention (DLP) programs based on machine learning. DLP programs are tools to identify sensitive information so that you can through specific policies control where data should and shouldn’t go. A New Way to Find and Protect Data: Vector Machine Learning A new category of DLP detection technology has emerged Read More …
Have you seen this? Italy opens investigation into Google data gathering It says: Examination of the data revealed that “while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords,” Eustace wrote. This may be unintended, but are you aware of all the deductions they can Read More …
Here I am, creating this blog to synthetise some thoughts about IT-Intelligence. I’ve been in AI, particularly Machine Learning since my studies, and it’s incredible how its applications have grown. I’ll use it to put some order in all the new facts and information I managed to gather on the subject. Hope this will help you too Read More …