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2020-2021
Gradient Flow #26: Multi-cloud Native, Next-gen BI and Analytics, AI Advancements
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 424 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “People get burned-out not because they’re working too hard but because they’re not feeling rewarded by the work they’re doing. They get burned-out because they believe their work has no impact. … Burnout is when the creative part ofContinue reading “Gradient Flow #26: Multi-cloud Native, Next-gen BI and Analytics, AI Advancements”
Trends to Watch in 2021 and Best Books of 2020
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 363 words which will take you about 2 minutes to read. “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” – Herbert Simon. Data Exchange podcast Key AI and Data Trends forContinue reading “Trends to Watch in 2021 and Best Books of 2020”
Gradient Flow #24: Robots Are Listening, Funding Updates, Security for the Disoriented
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 476 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “The character of a building like that of a man, is not its outward appearance but rather what’s inside.” – Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi Data Exchange podcast Security and privacy for the disoriented In this episode I speak withContinue reading “Gradient Flow #24: Robots Are Listening, Funding Updates, Security for the Disoriented”
Gradient Flow #23: AI Liabilities, Data Quality, Robust Language Models
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 408 words which will take you about 2 minutes to read. “It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.” – Roby James. Data Exchange podcast Improving the robustness of natural language applications In recent years adversarial attacks against computer vision models have been coveredContinue reading “Gradient Flow #23: AI Liabilities, Data Quality, Robust Language Models”
Gradient Flow #22: AI Security, Time-series Databases, Concept Drift
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 482 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “They beat me up unjustly, but since they did the same thing to everyone else, it was not unfair.” – Sydney Morgenbesser Data Exchange podcast Securing machine learning applications Ram Shankar is a Berkman Klein Center affiliate, and aContinue reading “Gradient Flow #22: AI Security, Time-series Databases, Concept Drift”
Gradient Flow #21: Detecting Fake News, AutoBI, Feature Stores
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 459 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “Any figure that looks interesting or different is usually wrong.” – W.A. Twyman. Data Exchange podcast The Computational Limits of Deep Learning Neil Thompson is a research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) andContinue reading “Gradient Flow #21: Detecting Fake News, AutoBI, Feature Stores”
Gradient Flow #20: Ethical Algorithms, Knowledge Graphs, Secure Communication
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 560 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “We know that the ‘superspreaders’ and ‘superconsumers’ of fake news, who drive the concentration in these samples, are mostly bots. – Sinan Aral Data Exchange podcast Building and deploying knowledge graphs Mayank Kejriwal is one of the leading expertsContinue reading “Gradient Flow #20: Ethical Algorithms, Knowledge Graphs, Secure Communication”
Gradient Flow #19: AI in Finance, Infinite Laptops, Software 2.0
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 622 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “The future will always be uncharted but it is made by those active enough to explore it, with the stamina and imagination not to give up on themselves or each other.” – Margaret Heffernan. Data Exchange podcast Financial TimeContinue reading “Gradient Flow #19: AI in Finance, Infinite Laptops, Software 2.0”
Gradient Flow #18: Forecasting & Groupthink, Interpreting NLP, Ray Ecosystem
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 640 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb. Data Exchange podcast Using machine learning to modernize medical triage and monitoring systems Kira Radinsky is Chairwoman & Chief TechnologyContinue reading “Gradient Flow #18: Forecasting & Groupthink, Interpreting NLP, Ray Ecosystem”
Gradient Flow #17: RL for Recommenders, AI Assurance, Traffic Prediction
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 880 words which will take you about 5 minutes to read. “Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.” – Ron Graham Data Exchange podcast What is AI Assurance? Ofer Razon and Superwise are part of a community in the early stages ofContinue reading “Gradient Flow #17: RL for Recommenders, AI Assurance, Traffic Prediction”
Issue #16: Conversational Assistants, Model Compression, Cloud Native
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 800 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read. “You may not get rich by using all the available information, but you surely will become poor if you don’t.” – Jack Treynor Data Exchange podcast Best practices for building conversational AI applications Alan Nichol is co-founder andContinue reading “Issue #16: Conversational Assistants, Model Compression, Cloud Native”
Issue #15: Technology Adoption, Bias in Speech, Fizz Buzz
Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 710 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read. “Most people who have the data are in power. And most people who are powerless do not have data.” – Cathy O’Neil Data Exchange podcast From Python beginner to seasoned software engineer Renowned programmer and author, Joel Grus,Continue reading “Issue #15: Technology Adoption, Bias in Speech, Fizz Buzz”

Issue #14: Chatbots, the Hiring Pipeline, and the reliability of ML
This edition has 874 words which will take you about 5 minutes to read.

Issue #13: Machine Learning Platforms, Graphs, and AI Ethics
This edition has 790 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #12: Augmentation, Adversarial ML, the Politics Industry
This edition has 820 words which will take you about 5 minutes to read.

Issue #11: Dark Data, AI Talent, and Reinforcement Learning
This edition has 817 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #10: ML in Finance, Disinformation, AI Superpowers
This edition has 879 words which will take you about 5 minutes to read.

Issue #9: Scalability, Privacy, and AutoML
This edition has 716 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #8: Deep Learning Platform, TinyML, Privacy ↔ Contact Tracing
This edition has 772 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #7: Modeling Epidemics, the Future of AI, and Alternative History
This edition has 684 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #6: Life on Lockdown, Next-gen Simulation Tools, and the Misinformation Apocalypse
This edition has 684 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #5: Hyperscaling, Computational Humanness, and Paid Sick Leave
This edition has 511 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read.

Issue #4: Scaling Machine Learning, Lakehouses, and Learning from Experiments
This edition has 681 words which will take you about 4 minutes to read.

Issue #3: Trends, Business at the Speed of AI, and ML Tools
This edition has 572 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read.