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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Not expecting sympathy I made a mistake, and I own it.
But, in case it wasn’t clear in the post, I had invested a fair amount of time into the company before that last contact, and my… Continue reading on
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What does it take to Lead Data Scientists?
You think it’s hard to hire data scientists? Try hiring a data science leader! Continue reading on
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Seniority Considered Harmful
Technical hiring in Silicon Valley aspires to be a meritocracy, but anyone who has looked at the data knows that there is rampant… Continue reading on
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Agreed. Perhaps my biggest take-away from this experience is to have a much stronger reaction to
any behavior that gives me a bad feeling — and especially to make sure all such reactions are cumulative. Continue reading on
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Fair point, Ive managed incredible interns myself that I have put on important prohlems.
But in this case I felt the intern’s lack of domain experience was an issue. Continue reading on
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The Uncanny Valley of Chatbots
In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the phrase “uncanny valley” (不気味の谷 in the original Japanese) to denote the phenomenon that when a… Continue reading on...
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I didn’t put that there – it must have been added as part of publishing the post on Startup Grind.
Regardless, I just removed it. Continue reading on »
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Summarization and Refinement Tags in Folksonomies
This paper, which I co-authored with Joyce Wang and Vladimir Zelevinsky when we were all at Endeca, originally appeared in the proceedings… Continue reading on...
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Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.
Perhaps it was added by the Startup Grind publication. Continue reading on »
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It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…
So I agree that it’s a flag, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a red flag. Continue reading on »
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No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.
And I spent a bunch of time with their team. It was only later that they started dropping my name to VCs — in fact, after May when I’d… Continue reading on »
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I may have been burned, but I’m not willing to let this experience make me that cynical.
I still basically trust people, and I’d like to keep it that way. But now I understand more than before why other people are less trusting. Continue reading on...
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Melinda, you’re right: it should not have taken an experience like this to teach me to be more…
careful. That said, I met the company through someone I trust, and I did spend some time with the team before becoming an advisor.Continue reading on »
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Lesson Learned
This morning, I woke up to find out that a job-matching company I’d been advising, WrkRiot (formerly known as 1for.one and apparently also…Continue reading on...
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Searching for Goldilocks
Many search queries don’t have a single right answer or even an objective best answer. For example, if you’re looking for mailboxes or…Continue reading on »
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Enterprise Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together
Today I had the honor to keynote the Workshop on Enterprise Intelligence, held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on…Continue reading on Medium...
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FizzBuzz Recipe
For a while I’ve been determined to make a cocktail called a FizzBuzz. Beyond being tasty, it needed to have enough fizz and buzz to merit…Continue reading on Medium...
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