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.
Big data began as a term used when you have extremely large data sets, These big data sets cannot be managed nor analyzed with conventional database programs not only because of the size exceeding the capacities of standard data management , but also because of the variety and unstructured nature of the data (it comes Read More …
Mid-February, Francesca Bria from Nesta presented the final study report on Digital Social Innovation (#DigitalSI) As NESTA puts it: This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe The study began 18 months ago with Read More …
David Auerbach has written this article pointing out that some classification algorithms may be racists : Can a computer program be racist? Imagine this scenario: A program that screens rental applicants is primed with examples of personal history, debt, and the like. The program makes its decision based on lots of signals: rental history, credit record, Read More …
I just read Stephen M. Fleming‘s article “The Power of Reflection” in the Scientific American Mind. It talks about the importance of metacognition, that is the ability of knowing our own thoughts and capacities. This skill that allows us to evaluate our level of competence on a particular domain is totally independent of our effective Read More …
The European Parliament is asking to “unbundling search engines from other commercial services”, issuing a message as in the ‘Free Willy’ movie, or any other cause you may be for 🙂 The Economist has done its first page article around it: ‘Should governments break up digital monopolies?’, Nov. 29th. 2014. Is this issue so important? Read More …
Could you imagine a world where children will ask you to bring them to school? Well, that world doesn’t seem so far away… at least I know my son would be happy to go to the school Ian Livingstone is planning to open in 2016 in Hammersmith, London. Read what technology reporter Dave Lee wrote Read More …
Innovation is creating new materials, new sensors each time smaller, cheaper, more flexible, more powerful and at the same time less power-consuming. It allows to put them everywhere: we are surrounded with devices crowded with those sensors as our phones with cameras, gyroscopes and gps. And all those measurements captured by the sensors are being Read More …
I just came back from holidays, and I want to share with you my last reading: “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by David Kahneman. He describes our mind as having 2 different ways of functioning: a fast one, based on our ‘intuition’ and a slower one, where we have to do the effort of reasoning. The Read More …
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 month was the annual off-site meeting from PWN Global (Professional Women International where I’m a Board member is the Brussels chapter of this federation of networks). Almost all the citi-networks were represented plus the Board of the federation and we had even the presence of corporate sponsors. The main objective was to shape the Read More …