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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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Overcoming Information Asymmetry
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Information Asymmetry in the Workplace” that discussed compensation in the Alliance… Continue reading on »
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Introduction
Search engines are so core to our digital experience that we take them for granted. Most of us cannot remember the web without Google to… Continue reading on Query...
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IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.
But that’s still useful, e.g., for determining that New York Pizza (http://www.nypizza.info/) Continue reading on »
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Data Recycling
One technique I’ve seen succeed again and again is data recycling. You may be doing it already. If not, you should add it to your toolbox. Continue reading on ...
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Great post!
http://thenoisychannel.com/2012/03/18/facing-prosopagnosia Continue reading on »
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The End of Intellectual Property?
Some people fear the singularity. I have a more mundane concern: are we approaching the end of intellectual property? Continue reading on »
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I’m not saying that all CTO roles wouldn’t have played to my strengths and passions, just that this…
I’m something of a hybrid between a chief scientist, engineering leader, and product leader. But I’m not particularly an IT and operations… Continue reading on...
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Thrilled to see Melinda Gates prioritizing her investments to focus on women in tech!
My suggestion isn’t particularly original, but I believe it bears repeating: we need to develop a more data-driven, rubric-based approach… Continue reading on ...
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Professional Networking
I’m a strong believer in professional networking, as you may have guessed from my long-term obsession with LinkedIn. Continue reading on »
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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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