[mc4wp_form] Kamelia Aryafar is part of the Data Science team at creative marketplace Etsy. At AirBNB’s OpenAir Tech Talks, she described how the uniqueness of products on offer mean that [...]
[mc4wp_form] Thomas Sohmers is the 19 year old Founder of Rex Computing, a start up which has been recognized for developing insanely fast servers which use up a fraction of the electrictiy of [...]
[mc4wp_form] Ebay has its own unique set of technical challenges when using machine learning for image and text recognition across more than 800 million items on offer every day. On top of this, [...]
Being a fan of all things German and having lived in Frankfurt some time ago, I couldn’t help sharing the pride of the Splunk team that won the Deutsche Bahn Hackathon in order to help the [...]
I am not entirely sure what to make of the news that Baidu admitted to turning the ImageNet Gentlemen’s Club into an all-you-can-eat engorgement of challenge submissions. If you hold these [...]
The personalized video recommendations which are served up by Netflix are a glossy front page which is a result of Research Engineers like Ehtsham Elahi rolling his sleeves up for machine [...]
I look at a lot of characteristics in Software Developers for my clients and I still find it extremely challenging to find the right balance of skills and character for me to represent someone. [...]
Twitter is a challenge for deep learning. It’s easy to forget too that whilst Baidu, Google and Facebook are elbow barging each other to get to the front of the line, that Twitter is also a [...]
Deep Learning at Baidu is all the rage at the moment, that is, at least until they are out-algorithmed by another research laboratory, perhaps with more compute power. This is, of course, all [...]
Sandy Pentland‘s closing comments in a dialogue at the recent Overseas Development Institute in London reminded me of Sir Thomas More‘s advice to King Henry VIII of England, [...]
