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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Jul 6, 2021

Sense and Scalability

In an era of AI adoption in industry, stark contrasts in our thinking begin to show about how we leverage computing, data, and inference. This article considers graph technologies in the context of business: enhancing human thinking and enabling data exploration, especially among teams of domain experts augmented by AI…

Knowledge Graph

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Sense and Scalability
Sense and Scalability
Knowledge Graph

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Jul 4, 2020

Two Hundred and Fifty Years

Their community was still reeling from an incident where local police had murdered an unarmed black man. Protests grew as the public was outraged in the wake of a court decision to acquit the murderers. Then a crowd gathered in a major city as a local protest leader made a…

History

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Two Hundred and Fifty Years
Two Hundred and Fifty Years
History

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Jun 3, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sebastopol, California 2020-06-03 — Derwen, Inc., announces a new AI service for a novel form of risk analysis, addressing business needs during a time of heightened uncertainty to augment due diligence practices, while emphasizing resilience and ethical practices. First and foremost, our hearts go out to those who have been victims of illegal and…

Risk Management

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Risk Management

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Apr 12, 2020

Squonk’s Tears

Strategy notes for technology ventures during a “pseudo-jackpot” period subsequent to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. The following is a collection of personal notes. Most of these points compare personal reflections from previous economic crises w.r.t. the current pandemic. …

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Squonk’s Tears
Squonk’s Tears

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Mar 25, 2020

CV19: Dashboards

A curated list of dashboards for tracking the COVID-19 pandemic and related factors. Preface The following links provide dashboards and related resources for a number of different perspectives analyzing the global COVID-19 pandemic. Note that the more reliable sources tend to: cite data sources focus on per-capita estimates instead of absolute…

Dashboard

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CV19: Dashboards
CV19: Dashboards
Dashboard

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Mar 25, 2020

CV19: Ways to do something

With so very many people on lockdown…in their homes…wondering what they can do…here’s a list about “Ways to do something” to help with responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: “Recovery Teams”: for any organization in which you’re involved, begin work now to put together a Recovery Team, which can plan and…

Covid 19

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CV19: Ways to do something
CV19: Ways to do something
Covid 19

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Jan 6, 2020

Machine Learning Highlights for Rich Context

We’ve had a busy 2019 at NYU Coleridge Initiative and other organizations partnering on Rich Context. Now we’re announcing a machine learning competition, with full details at the https://github.com/Coleridge-Initiative/rclc repo on GitHub. …

Machine Learning

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Machine Learning Highlights for Rich Context
Machine Learning Highlights for Rich Context
Machine Learning

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Sep 15, 2019

Human-in-the-loop AI for scholarly infrastructure

Check out a recent post, “New initiative to help with discovery of dataset use in scholarly work” by Christian Zimmermann on the RePEc blog. TLDR: RePEc now takes annotations of research papers then asks authors to confirm dataset annotations inferred by machine learning models. That’s a human-in-the-loop approach for enhancing…

Machine Learning

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Dataset discovery and human-in-the-loop AI for scholarly infrastructure
Dataset discovery and human-in-the-loop AI for scholarly infrastructure
Machine Learning

7 min read


Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·May 10, 2019

Data Science in the Senses

Our evening event at Rev conference this year will be Data Science in the Senses. That’s on Thursday, May 23 in NYC. Register today for Rev and use this code for a discount: PACORev25 — see the end of this article for more details about the conference. The Data Science…

Machine Learning

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Data Science in the Senses
Data Science in the Senses
Machine Learning

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Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan

·Apr 21, 2019

Business Etiquette Advice for Would-Be Entrepreneurs

This story was written as a capsule of advice to send to those who need it the most. Scenario: you’ve just arranged for an important introduction through email. Something like: well-connected VC: Hi XYZ, meet Joe. Can’t say enough great things about Joe. You two need to talk soon, I’m sure…

Startup

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Business Etiquette Advice for Would-Be Entrepreneurs
Business Etiquette Advice for Would-Be Entrepreneurs
Startup

4 min read

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