Author Archives: GilPress
45% of work activities can be automated including those performed by highest-paid occupations
McKinsey: …our research suggests that as many as 45 percent of the activities individuals are paid to perform can be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies.4 In the United States, these activities represent about $2 trillion in annual wages. Although … Continue reading
Google: Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Explained (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvf7Tagt18?rel=0] *Greg and Chris did an AMA on Friday, September 25th to answer people’s deep learning questions. Check out their answers here: https://goo.gl/jpbMy9 *To read more about machine learning, neural nets, and the like – check out the Google … Continue reading
68% of Americans have smartphones, 45% have tablet computers, other devices not growing
Today, 68% of U.S. adults have a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011, and tablet computer ownership has edged up to 45% among adults, according to newly released survey data from the Pew Research Center. Smartphone ownership is nearing the saturation … Continue reading
The Economist’s Data Editor on Data Fetishism
“We fetishize data, we think that data is the answer. It’s far from the truth. In fact, it’s ridiculous, because the data is only a simulacrum of reality in the same way that a map is not a territory. And … Continue reading
FinTech Startups:The Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services
Source: Startup Management HT: Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence The Economist: Bitcoin fanatics are enthralled by the libertarian ideal of a pure, digital currency beyond the reach of any central bank. The real innovation is not the digital coins themselves, but … Continue reading
Driverless Cars: A Misguided 20th Century Idea
IEEE Spectrum: A vision of fully autonomous, self-driving cars allowing human owners to nap or read in the car seems to come from the future. But David Mindell, a historian and electrical engineer at MIT, says that the idea of such … Continue reading
Connected Cars: A History of Security Vulnerabilities
Chris Poulin, IBM, on Tech Crunch: A Short History Of Car Vulnerability Research In 2010, researchers from the University of Washington and University of California, San Diego published a seminal paper proving that once an attacker has physical access to a … Continue reading
The Dell-EMC Merger and the Googlization of IT
Yes, Joe Tucci is a great salesman and Michael Dell is the ultimate entrepreneur, but it is Google that is really behind the $67 billion merger. Tucci: “The waves of change we now see in our industry are unprecedented and, … Continue reading
Survey: The Hunt for Unicorn Data Scientists Boosts the Salaries of Predictive Analytics Professionals
Unicorn Data Scientists (upgraded from “sexy data scientists”) are hard to find and are paid more than $200,000 per year. A new survey finds that the rising data science tide lifts the compensation of all other data analytics professionals, even … Continue reading