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.
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 …
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 …
Technical and scientific knowledge is growing at a fast speed. This allows for a lot of experimentation and innovation but in order to do it, you need first to acquire very specific knowledge, to educate yourself in many technical disciplines. This is not at everybody’s reach. In particular, it is hardly at reach of non-technical Read More …
It (or he/she?) doesn’t need to, there is now a platform to connect to others. I wouldn’t call it the Facebook for Robots, it’s more like a giant Academia 🙂 but RoboEarth enable robots to share their experiences, their learnings. It is a Cloud environment that allows them also to use external storage and computation Read More …
This 2011 Wired post from Thomas Goetz about Feedback Loops is about how we can change (or improve) our behaviour just by measuring it. I would add another factor that I think is as important to make us change, that is when we put our behavior on display. As example, if you have been on a Read More …
Last week I presented this topic to professional women at PWI here in Brussels. It’s called ‘small talk’ because it is not a technical presentation but one for a broader audience, to create awareness on this Big Data trend. The main concept I wanted them to take away is the change in the business arena Read More …
I loved this article from Vivak Wadhwa, from Stanford University about (the lack of) women in technology. He was saying that Sillicon Valley seemed to him a meritocracy, as a lot of nationalities where represented, but then his wife make him see the missing element…women! You can argue that for a real diversity, we should Read More …
I was at the conference Powered by Inspire here in Brussels. It was all about geo-spatial European Standardization. Erika Nissi, from the International Union of Railways, spoke about their particular situation regarding this European Directive. They want to move on that direction, and they will comply eventually, but railways have a lot of other Directives and Read More …