How to advance social capital in a world increasingly governed by surveillance capitalism?About a year ago, I read Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford, a brilliant analysis of the extractive processes that govern the field of machine learning, from environmental resource allocation to the harvesting of our political fabric to data privacy infringements. This article … [Read more...] about Data Capitalism: Innovation, Extraction, Social Conscience
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Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding
Imagine that all people around the world could use voice AI systems such as Alexa in their native tongues.One promising approach to realizing this vision is massively multilingual natural-language understanding (MMNLU), a paradigm in which a single machine learning model can parse and understand inputs from many typologically diverse languages. By learning a shared data … [Read more...] about Amazon Releases 51-Language Dataset for Language Understanding
Eliminating AI Bias
Evidence of AI BiasThe primary purpose of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to reduce manual labour by using a machine’s ability to scan large amounts of data to detect underlying patterns and anomalies in order to save time and raise efficiency. However, AI algorithms are not immune to bias. AI Bias has presented itself in several forms, with some examples highlighted … [Read more...] about Eliminating AI Bias
Online Experiments Tricks – Variance Reduction
Why do we need variance reduction?When we do online experiments or A/B testing, we need to ensure our test has high statistical power so that we have a high probability to find the experimental effect if it does exist. What are the factors that might affect power? Sample sizes, sampling variance of the experiment metric, significance level alpha, and effect size.The … [Read more...] about Online Experiments Tricks – Variance Reduction
How Can You Tell If Your Recommender System Is Any Good?
It’s an exciting time to be working on recommender systems. Not only are they more relevant than ever before, with Facebook recently investing in a 12 trillion parameter model and Amazon estimating that 35% of their purchases come from recommendations, but there is a wealth of powerful, cutting edge techniques with code available for anyone to try.So the … [Read more...] about How Can You Tell If Your Recommender System Is Any Good?
The Essential Landscape of Enterprise AI Companies (2020)
By our definition, "enterprise" technology companies create tools for workplace roles and functions that a large number of businesses use.Plenty of enterprise companies use combinations of automated data science, machine learning, and modern deep learning approaches for tasks like data preparation, predictive analytics, and process automation. Many are well-established … [Read more...] about The Essential Landscape of Enterprise AI Companies (2020)
7 AI Companies Revolutionizing Recruiting
HireVue Coding AssessmentAI won’t take the "human" out of HR, but applying novel machine learning capabilities can eliminate repetitive and monotonous activities in recruiting and talent management.The power of automation is based on being able to design and reimagine the daily processes that organizations rely on. However, to adopt new technologies effectively, … [Read more...] about 7 AI Companies Revolutionizing Recruiting
Netflix Data Science Interview Questions
Netflix is a streaming media company headquartered in Los Gatos, California that has permeated culture as the largest content media company disrupted by tech. Founded in 1997, Netflix started out as a DVD rental service, and then expanded to the streaming business. Now Netflix had over 150 million paid subscriptions worldwide, including its 60 million US users. With … [Read more...] about Netflix Data Science Interview Questions
The NVIDIA Data Science Interview
NVIDIA Corporation is an American technology giant based in Santa Clara, California. NVIDIA designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the expanding gaming and professional markets, as well as system on chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Data scientists at NVIDIA leverage the most advanced data science technology in their products that … [Read more...] about The NVIDIA Data Science Interview
Twitter Data Science Interview Questions
Twitter is known for its news and debates and holds the title of the SMS of the world. Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone, it has grown to have more than 321 million active users per month as well as 1.6 billion search inquiries each day.Aside from being one of the biggest tech companies, Twitter also has one of the world’s largest … [Read more...] about Twitter Data Science Interview Questions