Will Robots Soon Pass the Mirror Test? May 4, 2023 The mirror test is way to measure self-awareness. The test is a behavioral experiment developed by psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. in 1970. The test…
Picking Apart the Origins of Backpropagation May 1, 2023 “Backpropagation was the key that unlocked the power of deep learning, and deep learning is the engine that drives artificial intelligence.” – Geoffrey Hinton…
Who Owns the Science? April 24, 2023 Let’s start by clarifying what science is: Science is a systematic and logical approach to discovering how the world works. In the most general…
Balancing Autonomy & Control in the Face of AI Uncertainty April 23, 2023 The current wave of AI hype has brought about many people feeling the need to express their fears of new technology. This seems like…
Give Your Predictive Models a Lift with XGBoost April 20, 2023 XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) is a machine learning algorithm that was first introduced in 2014. Engineers often choose it for its speed, accuracy, versatility,…
Will Machine Learning Replace Humans? March 31, 2023 Prologue: The purpose of this article is to document the state of contemporary data science. I am a professional data scientist and machine learning…
Veterans :: Munchies Index Data November 15, 2020 As US social media recently honored Veterans Day, Nov 11, let’s take more than a moment to reflect on the dedicated men and women…
Isolating the Signal from the Noise November 15, 2020 Using social engagement as a proxy indicator for consumer sentiment has often been a vaguely quantifiable task. That’s largely due to the inherently noisy…
