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There’s a lot of talk about ethical and bias free AI. And it’s only logical, if you compare a machine to a human, learning goes through the same cycles.
Take a child as an example. If you teach a child that a fork is called a spoon, the child will call the fork a spoon. It’s a reality it’s been taught. Once other humans start correcting the child, the spoon will become the fork (and even that can be hard to achieve, depending on who it was that taught the child that the fork is the spoon in the first…
“If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.”
“Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.”
“A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.”
Hopi Prophecies
When Koyaanisqatsi was just released, my parents brought my brother and me to Amsterdam to see a live screening in the Stopera, the Amsterdam City Hall and Opera house. It was the 80’s of the previous century and I was in my early teens. …
When I boarded my plane back to Amsterdam from Toronto on 17 April to see my children, I had high hopes to be able to return 1.5 months later. I was very well aware of regulations in place but assumed that given that my partner is a Canadian citizen and I’ve been in Canada for about 2.5 years, it would be no issue to return to the polite and welcoming land of maple syrup. Somehow that sounds better than the land of Poutine.
Things have changed since then. Every day news is beyond shocking and I can’t help to continuously…
Introduction
During the course of a calm Sunday, two things happened because of which I’m writing this article:
- My kids and I just spend 2 weeks vacation in Spain, this was our last day
- Coincidentally I found several old snapshots of my brother and I; on a vacation in the south of France
Before you continue reading, let me instill a warning: In this article I may sound like someone who thinks the past is always better and the future is something to be cautious about. (in other words, I may sound like an old fart). This is not my intention…
Marketing influences our daily lives, so much so, that many people don’t even realize that a lot of their actions stem from marketing activities that have happened before an actual purchase is made. Some of these marketing activities may have taken place years and years before, and continue to influence our buying behavior.
To see how I’m personally affected by Marketing Activities, mainly in the FMCG space (or more generic; retail), I decided to test myself and try to figure out why I bought the food, drinks, salads, sauces, wines, cheeses and so forth that are in my fridge. And…
