Every ranking creates winners and losers. In the case of Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking, the Philippines is a loser: dead …Continue reading →

Now that software ate the world, what’s for dessert? Those in the know know that it’s AI. It seems everyone …Continue reading →

Plentiful high-quality data is the key to great machine learning models. But good data doesn’t grow on trees, and that …Continue reading →

As a follow-up to my Primer On Universal Function Approximation with Deep Learning, I’ve created a project on Github that …Continue reading →

Arthur C. Clarke famously stated that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” No current technology embodies this statement …Continue reading →

As is the case with most quant software, it’s a bit different from run-of-the-mill software. The somewhat prosaic world of …Continue reading →

Testing is an often overlooked yet critical component of any software system. In some ways this is more true of …Continue reading →

Math puzzles always tickle the brain, and this one has tickled quite a few on LinkedIn. Why are these puzzles …Continue reading →

Andrej Karpathy’s post “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” made splashes last year. The basic premise is that you …Continue reading →

On the heels of a report showing the inefficacy of government-run cyber security, it’s imperative to understand the limitations of …Continue reading →

It turns out I’m not the only one who thinks AI alarmism is a bit out of hand. The ITIF …Continue reading →

Right on cue, this past week heralded in an announcement of OpenAI, a new non-profit started by a number of …Continue reading →

This week, we continue the parallel themes of deep learning and natural language processing. Last week I mentioned some papers …Continue reading →