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.
Hear of this crowdsourcing success story at EyeWire: Crowd-sourced science isn’t just fun and games anymore; it has produced a scientific discovery new and important enough to be published in the journal Nature. The social gaming venture EyeWire lured citizen scientists to follow retinal neurons across multiple two-dimensional photos with the chance to level Read More …
Open Education Europa, the EU portal on open education resources just published the scoreboard of the European MOOCs. Check here for the full information on all the listed MOOCs, Learn and enjoy!
For all of you who have an idea but are not sure it will work, or for the ones that are juggling with many ideas and never concretize any 🙂 here is a tool that could help you decide if to go further or not: the Pimento Map [..] the Pimento Map methodology is 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 …
Last week I had the pleasure to hear Nicole Dewandre talk about Hyperconnectivity at the Rotary club of Waterloo. Nicole works as advisor for societal issues for the Director General of the DG CONNECT at the European Commission. Her presentation was about the impact hyperconnectivity has on our human condition from a philosophical point of 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 …
Are you familiar with the concept of the Global Brain ? The concept is that we humans (and also computers) can be considered as neurons, connecting to each other through Internet, creating a super entity that acts as a global brain. I discovered this idea, some years ago on the First Global Brain Workshop here Read More …
A few days ago I went to Italy, and look what caught my eyes in the airport coming back: So I cannot but get into the ‘new deal on data’ for personal data protection of Alex Pentland that I mentioned on the previous post 🙂 His idea is to treat personal data as an asset, Read More …
I recently got the new issue from Scientific American (October 2013), and in the front page was announced the article ‘The Data-Driven Society’ by Alex Pentland. I just had to read it 🙂 He co-leads the World Economic Forum on Big Data and Personal Data initiatives. He was talking about all the digital bread crumbs Read More …
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 …