Category Archives: Machine Learning
Domain Expertise vs. Machine Learning: The Debate Continues
By starting to rank all the data scientists participating in its competitions, Kaggle today advanced further its argument that data science is a generic set of skills that can be applied to any problem without prior domain expertise. Talking to … Continue reading
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Josh Wills on Machine Learning in a Business Setting
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgfRdDjLxe0?rel=0] Academic machine learning is all about optimization. Machine learning in a business setting is all about understanding: “My focus is always on how do I understand what the system is doing, come up with new hypotheses about this … Continue reading
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Machines vs. Models, Noise vs. Signal
An excerpt from Nassim Taleb’s forthcoming book, Antifragile, was posted yesterday on the Farnam Street blog. In “Noise and Signal,” Taleb says that “In business and economic decision-making, data causes severe side effects —data is now plentiful thanks to connectivity; … Continue reading
Predicting Response to Cancer Treatments
OncoHost is developing the first of its kind Host Response Profiling platform for predicting responsiveness to cancer therapies. Read more
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Practical AI
Practical AI is the successful (and unsuccessful) learning from data by enterprises. Read more
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What is the Real-World Impact of AI?
It’s difficult to measure the real-world impact of AI because “artificial intelligence” is poorly defined. Read more
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Northeastern University Launches The Institute For Experiential AI
Aiming to answer these questions, Northeastern University launched earlier this month a new research center, the Institute for Experiential AI. It is a part of the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, established by Northeastern two years ago with a $100 million grant from … Continue reading
Best of 2019: 60 Years of Progress in AI
[January 8, 2019] Today is the first day of CES 2019 and artificial intelligence (AI) “will pervade the show,” says Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association. One hundred and thirty years ago today (January 8, 1889), Herman … Continue reading
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Machine Learning Algorithms
Murat Durmus: an overview of the most proven algorithms that are mainly used in the field of predictive analytics