Jun 25, 2019Recommendations and User-Profiling from Implicit FeedbacksRecommendations and Feedbacks The vast majority of B2C services are quickly discovering the strategic importance of solid recommendation engines to improve the conversion rates and establish a stronger fidelity with the customers. The most common strategies are based [3] on the segmentation of users according to their personal features (age range, gender, interests…Machine Learning11 min readMachine Learning11 min read
Jun 16, 2019Member-onlyCybernetic Existentialism: can a machine imagine its end?This article is the result of a long dialogue with a psychologist friend of mine, who — always with great acumen and critical spirit — highlighted some fundamental aspects of modern artificial intelligence (AI) comparing them with the hinges on which the substratum of life itself rests and that AI…Artificial Intelligence13 min readArtificial Intelligence13 min read
Sep 13, 2018Are recommendations really helpful for B2C services?Many times I had the opportunity to answer the question: “Are recommendations so important for my B2C service?”. Every time, my answer was the same: “It depends”. Clearly, I don’t want to be vague just to avoid the question, but the reality is much more complex than any mathematical model…Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
Jul 8, 2016Eight reasons to study Machine LearningThese considerations may be accepted or not, however I hope to show some good starting points before beginning to study Machine Learning. Old fashioned computing techniques are getting more and more useless. Industrial revolution is over and so all kind of merely-automatic machines. It doesn’t mean that an email client…Machine Learning3 min readMachine Learning3 min read
Apr 25, 2015Elogio del dubbioOgni giorno barro una casella del calendario. Non per segnare un giorno trascorso o per lasciarmi cullare dalla malinconia del passato. Barro una casella per ogni certezza che man mano è venuta meno o, se si vuole porre la questione in positivo, per un nuovo dubbio che ha fatto ingresso…2 min read2 min read
