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Deep Learning Basics
While reading Hung Lee's Recruiting Brainfood, I stumbled upon this deep learning primer: The Simple Guide to Deep Learning The primer is great, and a quick read. Here is my quick summary below: The basics of deep learning is to think about how the brain breaks up a specific task. For example, let’s say you are hiking the Appalachian Trail, and...
Ethical OS
Guiding principles for technologists. ethicalos.org/
A Culture Shift: Appreciation
The old adage says, “What you appreciate, appreciates.” Problem Finding Machines: In the day-to-day of work, we become habituated to finding problems, and hopefully solving those problems. In some ways, we become problem finding machines, and this creates a mindset — we look at processes, we look at technology and we look at people and we try to...
AI & Machine Learning and Knowledge Work
AI and Machine Learning will slowly arrive make its way into all of our apps in both seen and unseen ways. How do we embrace this? How do we plan for this? How will this change the work all of us do? Here's Microsoft's "Design Ideas" in PowerPoint:
The Importance of Guiding Principles (or, Key Decision Making Criteria)
At the heart of getting something done is getting everyone on the same page to move the project forward. This is especially relevant in an environment of a variety of individuals from department teams, and, ultimately, different walks life. The diversity of views creates a challenge: Do we argue about the rightness or wrongness of ideas or a...