NLP Practitioners: Are You Building a Ship or Just Chopping Wood?
The Vikings ruled the seas from 793–1066 AD with their now-famous long and durable ships. Their exceptional sailing and navigational skills made them a dominant force that changed the course of European history. But it was their technology and ship building mastery...
Can Non-Techies Use Artificial Intelligence?
Eighty-five percent of jobs that will exist in 2030 have not yet been created. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the technologies influencing our future, including changing the way in which we access and analyze information in our everyday lives – business and...
Natural Language: Pavlov or Piaget?
Piaget Is Based on Building Blocks, While Pavlov Is More of a Response There are two approaches when it comes to using artificial intelligence (AI) to understand or interpret human language, and they can be explained based upon the cognitive theories of Russian...
Declaring Independence from AI Programming
The Fourth of July is a special US holiday for a few important reasons. First, it is a celebration of the birth of our nation filled with symbolism, patriotism, picnics, guilt-free potato salad binging, and lots of noisy fireworks. Secondly, it signifies the...
Overcoming the Pitfalls of Machine Learning with GLO
By: Christopher Stephenson and Dr. Russ Couturier Back in January many business analysts and data science pundits proclaimed 2019 would be the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream. And currently, all indicators appear to support this assertion. But as...
How Humanities Majors Can Takeover the Tech Industry
Machine Learning (ML) is an extremely powerful tool that has been distinctly out of reach for the average person since its conception. For my fellow laymen, ML is the method of training a computer model to classify something. That’s it. Whether it’s supervised or...
Network Better, Share a Cartoon
It happens, often by chance, that you strike a conversation with a stranger and a friendship or business relationship forms. In this instance, it was on a plane. I was really really curious about the man in the seat next to me. He was extremely well dressed, had the...
Grace Hopper: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant
Grace Murray Hopper is known as the Queen of Code, the Mother of COBOL, and an overall pioneer in computer programming. She wore many hats, literally and figuratively, as a computer scientist, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Doctor of Mathematics (Ph.D. Yale University),...
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