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Making ML transparent and explainable with explainerdashboard
Making ML transparent and explainable with explainerdashboard
The world is rapidly adopting more and more machine learning solutions in ever more sectors, including some heavily regulated ones. At the…
Oege Dijk
Feb 22, 2021
Call Me an Agent of Change, Not a Human Resource
Call Me an Agent of Change, Not a Human Resource
Organizational transformation is a never-ending journey. Embrace chaos and focus on the individuals to speed up this journey.
Dmitry Smirnov
May 28, 2020
The Unlearning Machines
The Unlearning Machines
Many machine learning models are actually unlearning machines that deteriorate in performance as time passes. We take a quick look on why.
Jarno Kartela
Feb 17, 2020
Predictions for the Next Five Years in Machine Learning
Predictions for the Next Five Years in Machine Learning
What might machine learning look like in 2025?
Max Pagels
Jan 3, 2020
Technical Debt: The Ghost of Shortcuts Past, Part 2
Technical Debt: The Ghost of Shortcuts Past, Part 2
This post is part two of my series on technical debt. You can ready the Part 1 here. This post concerns the difficult task of identifying…
Vladimir Metodiev
Aug 20, 2019
Technical Debt: The Ghost of Shortcuts Past
Technical Debt: The Ghost of Shortcuts Past
A few years ago I was working at a large multinational firm in the technology space. The organisation had a healthy profit margin and…
Vladimir Metodiev
Mar 14, 2019
Your Product Owner Is Not Enough
Your Product Owner Is Not Enough
Organizations these days have adopted agile methodologies rather well. Unlike not so long ago, many organizations these days actually do…
Niklas Collin
Dec 5, 2018
Why China May Be the Next AI Superpower, part II
Why China May Be the Next AI Superpower, part II
The societal ripple effect
Lassi A Liikkanen
Nov 20, 2018
Machine Learning Reductions & Mother Algorithms, Part II: Multiclass to Binary Classification
Machine Learning Reductions & Mother Algorithms, Part II: Multiclass to Binary Classification
Solving multiclass problems using binary learners
Max Pagels
Nov 16, 2018
Machine Learning Reductions & Mother Algorithms, Part I: An Introduction
Machine Learning Reductions & Mother Algorithms, Part I: An Introduction
How to divide and conquer your way though complex machine learning problems
Max Pagels
Nov 5, 2018
Properties of a Fine AI Company
Properties of a Fine AI Company
In the next decade, the standard for modern companies will be an AI company. This means that organizations must seek to utilize AI as part…
Lassi A Liikkanen
Oct 23, 2018
How Artificial Intelligence Took Over Data-Driven Design Day 2018 — as the host witnessed it
How Artificial Intelligence Took Over Data-Driven Design Day 2018 — as the host witnessed it
This story is a short recap of Data-Driven Design Day 2018 from a program curator’s perspective, i.e.my perspective. It explains my…
Lassi A Liikkanen
Sep 20, 2018
Creative AI is already here
Creative AI is already here
Currently the discussion about the opportunities and threats posed by the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is boiling hot…
Lassi A Liikkanen
Sep 6, 2018
Architecting a Scalable Real Time Learning System
Architecting a Scalable Real Time Learning System
Tips for implementing production-grade real time machine learning
Max Pagels
Sep 4, 2018
Against the Moral Hazard in Technology Consulting
Against the Moral Hazard in Technology Consulting
“Know when it is correct to object your client when it is evident they are wrong”
Lassi A Liikkanen
Aug 28, 2018
Focusing on Machine Learning 2020: Augmentation Instead of Automation
Focusing on Machine Learning 2020: Augmentation Instead of Automation
In less than last two years the interest in machine learning has tripled and in five years it has more than quadrupled. Gartner’s famous…
Jarno Kartela
Aug 23, 2018
The Programming Productivity Problem
Writing software systems is hard. What makes it even harder is the constant mismatch between developers and business people. Developers…
Niklas Collin
Aug 21, 2018
Fourkind's thoughts on the ethical use of artificial intelligence
Our guidelines for using AI responsibly
Max Pagels
Aug 9, 2018
Dear Spotify, Please Add Transparency and Receive Happy Users
Dear Spotify, Please Add Transparency and Receive Happy Users
If anyone knows my musical quirks well, it is Spotify. It has been following my listening behavior for almost ten years, since early 2009.
Lassi A Liikkanen
Jun 27, 2018
Data Commercialization Moves to Insights Commercialization
Let’s face it. The data economy is primarily about insights, not data. Which customers are most likely to churn? Which media instruments…
Marko Saarinen
Jun 13, 2018
The Curious Tale of William Sealy Gosset
The Curious Tale of William Sealy Gosset
An ode to a brilliant mind who changed how we do statistical inference.
Max Pagels
Jun 11, 2018
Semantic Search
Search that actually finds what you were looking for
Niklas Collin
May 27, 2018
Using artificial intelligence for taking your digital commerce and customer experience to the next…
Many of us have read about the predictions regarding the proliferation and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and related…
Marko Saarinen
May 23, 2018
What is Online Machine Learning?
Making machines learn in real time
Max Pagels
Apr 19, 2018
Please stop saying you need data to start on AI
Please stop saying you need data to start on AI
Companies, especially advisory and consultancy companies working on AI seem to start their talks always on the notion of data. If you want…
Jarno Kartela
Apr 17, 2018
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