Book Review The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac This is World Economic Forum Book Club March 2020 book pick. From the book cover you will know that it is a book on our climate crisis. Yes we do
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Christof Koch Christof Koch is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at CalTech. Cited more
Blog Data Science Myth (2) - It is a Magic Pill! There was a time, I keep hearing people propose doing "Data Science" for any kind of business challenges as though its a magic pill that once you pop it in
Book Review All the Ghosts in the Machine by Elaine Kasket What caught my attention for the book was that it discuss a very interesting intersection between technology and death. In summary, it discusses with life examples, what happens to your
Blog Machine Learning in a Crisis Given the COVID-19 pandemic, I have more time to work on my website these days. So I made a call to my LinkedIn community (post) to find out what they
Blog Data Science Myths (1) - Most Accurate Wins? Timothy has just graduated from a Data Science degree program and started work in Lifestyle Coupon, a company that sells consumers discount coupons similar to Groupon. Lifestyle Coupons has just
Blog Must Consider the Impact to Stakeholders During my training classes, when the topic of common machine learning models was being discussed, I usually will also discuss this sub-topic and that is the usage of insights from
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Yoshua Bengio My learning and thoughts after watching the YouTube video of Lex Fridman interviewing Yoshua Bengio
Book Review Speech Police by David Kaye It is a very short book but brought out a lot of interesting stories about the struggle to govern the internet on Fake News. I guess when it comes to
Blog "Complex" Machine Learning Models is ALWAYS Better? I have been mentoring many "green" data professionals for the past few years. I notice that there is a handful of the recent graduates (degrees or bootcamps) that is caught
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Stuart Russell My learning and thoughts after watching the YouTube video of Lex Fridman interviewing Stuart Russell
Blog Data Scientist Need Business Acumen Many a times, I get the question, “How can I have more ‘business sense’ in analyzing my data?” In other words, how does one know the insights gained from data
Book Review Kingdom of Lies - Kate Fazzini I am fascinated about cybersecurity and cyber-crimes. In fact, I am very interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, how artificial intelligence can be used to prevent cybersecurity,
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Tomaso Poggio Next video interview by Lex Fridman I have watched is the interview with Tomaso Poggio, video below. Tomaso Poggio is a professor at MIT and is the director of the
Blog Why this Obsession with Machine Learning? If you are looking to break into Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and considering training options such as bootcamps, this is a blog post for you. Based on my observation,
Blog Learning to Build Artificial General Intelligence (Part 1) In 2018, I came across two resources that help me understand better about the current state of Artificial Intelligence and what do we need to move into and build a
Blog You Should Learn Programming As an economist by training, I did a lot of mathematics and statistics modules during my university days. I only had a one-module experience in programming and that was with
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Pieter Abbeel For those of you who are in the field of Artificial Intelligence, you will have come across Lex Fridman from MIT. He actually has series of videos where he interviews
Blog Really? You need a Data Scientist? Recent years (or shall I say in the past decade), data has been identified as the new oil. The world is collecting tons of it, no thanks to the advancement
Book Review What I Didn't Learn in Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World by Jay B. Barney Just finished the audio-book. The book shares on what are some of the inadequacies of a degree program. Although the book is about how strategy works in real life but
Blog Big Data? Nope! Relevant Data! In one section of my training, I need to cover what Big Data is. So most of you may already know there are 4 "V"s that describe what Big
Blog Difference Between Data Science Competition & Reality Most of you may be familiar with Kaggle or the likes, a place where machine learning enthusiasts are competing with one another to find a machine learning model that ultimately
Blog Selecting Data Science Bootcamp/Training Currently, there are tons of bootcamp training on Data Science or Artificial Intelligence, depending on the buzzword of the day. Why is that so? Capitalism is the culprit here because
Book Review Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman Do not think this book need any introduction. Definitely a classic. I have this book for a while now but have not read it because there were other books that
Blog Quick Win from Data - Start with Visualization During my work, many have asked the following question, in one form or another. “How can I score quick wins from my existing data?”It is a reasonable question, given
