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Lies, damned lies, and rankings: the problem with Bloomberg’s COVID resilience ranking

November 8, 2021

Every ranking creates winners and losers. In the case of Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking, the Philippines is a loser: dead …

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Introducing the AI Workplace

November 4, 2018

My startup, Pez.AI, is launching a publication on Medium called the AI Workplace. We’re exploring a radically different way of …

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How to call bullshit on AI companies (aka a short lesson on recall)

April 10, 2018

Now that software ate the world, what’s for dessert? Those in the know know that it’s AI. It seems everyone …

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Lead your own data science projects with the 3 Ps

September 9, 2016

There’s a lot of literature on learning the technical aspect of data science: statistics, machine learning, data munging, big data. …

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Rosie the Robot vs Roomba: Two Views on AI

March 31, 2016

This site generously supported by Datacamp. Datacamp offers a free interactive introduction to R coding tutorial as an additional resource. …

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Making AI More Human: How To Give A Sales Pitch As A Technical Talk

February 19, 2016

I had the pleasure of seeing Gary Marcus give his talk “Making AI More Human” at the NYC Machine Learning …

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Why Facebook’s news algorithm is doomed to failure

June 30, 2015

Another day and another update to Facebook’s news algorithm. Facebook claims they use around 100,000 factors to identify the most “relevant” …

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The northern section of the High Line

November 11, 2014

Back in September, the northern section of the High Line opened to the public. While not fully completed, you can …

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What your twitter friends say about you and your interests

August 10, 2014

This post is first in a series that looks at the inferences you can make using social media data. The …

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What digital photography taught me about product development and running a business

July 25, 2014

The confluence of inexpensive, professional-grade equipment and high capacity storage has radically changed the way I take pictures. Although I …

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