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.
With all the generated electronic data, there is a new way of studying sociology. We can measure now what’s happening in real time on a particular event. It means a lot of computation, the new techniques to navigate on extremely large data-sets have to be used, but there is also a challenge on how to Read More …
Just a few days ago, the European authorities on Google’s respect of the European Directive on Privacy published their conclusion. Basically they indicated that Google failed respecting essential principles of the Directive as limiting the usage of the personal data, minimising the requested personal data and the right to object. There is not enough information on the nature and usage of Read More …
Rumors are that European data protection commisssioners will soon act, as it seems they have determined that the new data privacy rules of Google breach our European laws. Viviane Reding, the EU Justice chief, had already mentioned her doubts in March, but there are still no details on what has been found illegal. There is still not clear what they can do to enforce 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 …
“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 …
Andyvision is the name of this ET-looking robot. You can find it at the CMU store near the Carnegie Mellon University, checking the inventory. Andyvision[…] scans the shelves to generate a real-time interactive map of the store, which customers can browse via an in-store screen. At the same time, the robot performs a detailed inventory Read More …
I have been very busy lately, with no time to write. But I attended great seminars meanwhile, like Pierre De Wilde from Tinkerpop talking at the GBI about the Property Graph model. He explained how we can construct and consult information in a graph database (‘traverse a graph’). A Graph database is composed of vertices 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 …
What is Model Thinking? It’s trying to findthe rules behind a particular behavior. Creating a model forces you to name the variables that have a role to play, making it explicit what has to be taken into account in order to predict a particular behavior. It’s great to come up with a model, but how 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 …