Nov 10–13, participate from anywhere, $12k+ in prizes — TL;DR Proffer is teaming up with the IBM, Microsoft, Accel Partners, Coinbase, and Government of India to bring you a first-of-its kind blockchain summit and hackathon from Nov 10–13, dedicated to envisioning and building use-cases of blockchain for social good — beyond bitcoin, beyond currency. $12K+ in prizes for your Dapps…

Nov 10–13, $17K+ in prizes, participate from anywhere — TL;DR Proffer is teaming up with the Government of India, IBM, Microsoft, Accel Partners, and Coinbase to bring you a first-of-its kind blockchain summit and hackathon from Nov 10–13, dedicated to envisioning and building use-cases of blockchain for social good — beyond bitcoin, beyond currency. $17K+ in prizes for your Dapps…

Determining ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ for subjective crowd input using a global expertise bank and expertise-weighted reviews — In my last article, I wrote about the need for Social Search — using human intelligence and experience to answer questions that Google and AI cannot answer. For a social search platform like Proffer (or any system that relies on crowd intelligence) to work and to offer high quality responses…

App #2 of Proffer’s 5 apps in 5 days series — Proffer Edu is a peer-to-peer question/answer based education app on the blockchain — one of 5 apps my teammate Sinchan and I built for Coinbase’s Toshi/Token Hackathon in June ’17 to explore use cases of social search on the blockchain. …

Determining ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ for subjective crowd input using a global expertise bank and expertise-weighted reviews — In my last article, I wrote about the need for Social Search — using human intelligence and experience to answer questions that Google and AI cannot answer. For a social search platform like Proffer (or any system that relies on crowd intelligence) to work and to offer high quality responses…

5 winners from 3 continents taking home $19K in prizes + lots of honorable mentions — Thank you to the 1,400 students and professionals from around the world that signed up to participate, to the 350 of you that attended OpenEd.ai’s …

TL;DR: OpenEd.ai is awarding up to $17K in prizes and over $1.5K per participant in cloud credits for open-source AI projects solving problems in Education during the global AI for Education HackWeek (July 28 — Aug 4). Judges include Computer Science faculty from Harvard University and NLP experts from around…

TL;DR: OpenEd.ai is awarding up to $19K in cash prizes and computing resources for open-source AI projects solving problems in Education during the global AI for Education HackWeek (July 28 — Aug 11). Judges include Computer Science faculty from Harvard University and NLP experts from around the world, and the…

Finding dates, doctors, and difficult answers through collective intelligence — “Who’s a good dentist in San Francisco?” “Who’s the right guy/girl for me?” “Where’s the bug in my code?” “What job should I do next?” Google is great and will keep getting better with time, but try asking these questions and you might find the answers less than satisfactory. Sure…