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  • Got speech? These guidelines will help you get started building voice applications

    Speech adds another level of complexity to AI applications – today’s voice applications provide a very early glimpse of what is to come. By Ben Lorica and Yishay Carmiel. As companies begin to explore AI technologies,…

  • Acquiring and sharing high-quality data

    The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Roger Chen on the fair value and decentralized governance of data. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Roger Chen, co-founder and CEO of Computable Labs, a startup…

  • Gliding down the world’s longest zipline

    Ras Al Khaimah’s Jebel Jais mountain in the U.A.E. is home to the longest zipline in the world. The video below is from a GoPro camera on my helmet and was shot on 2019-03-14. I was…

  • Three surveys of AI adoption reveal key advice from more mature practices

    An overview of emerging trends, known hurdles, and best practices in artificial intelligence. By Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan. [This post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar.] Recently, O’Reilly Media published AI Adoption in the Enterprise: How…

  • How companies are building sustainable AI and ML initiatives

    A recent survey investigated how companies are approaching their AI and ML practices, and measured the sophistication of their efforts. By Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan. [This post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar.] In 2017,…

  • Books I enjoyed in 2018

    Here are nonfiction books I enjoyed reading in 2018 (more precisely, these are books I read during the second part of 2017 through 2018). Not all of these books were released this year, although most them…

  • 5 findings from O’Reilly’s machine learning adoption survey companies should know

    New survey results highlight the ways organizations are handling machine learning’s move to the mainstream. By Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan. [This post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar.] As machine learning has become more widely…

  • Strata Singapore 2016

    Landed in Singapore for #stratahadoop next week, and I came across an article about data and the Metro System https://t.co/3vmwGmNs2e — Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 (@bigdata) December 3, 2016

  • Hong Kong 2016

    We just spent the past week in Hong Kong and below are some tweets from our trip. The weather was perfect – the temperature was just right. Their metro/train system is world class and easy to…

  • Strata NYC 2016 is next week

    1/ We have great keynotes next week at #StrataHadoop NYC🗽 Here are a few to watch for: — Ben Lorica (@bigdata) September 21, 2016 2/ .@Pagankennedy author of Inventology ⇢ The art and science of serendipity…