I recently blogged about the risks of social rating systems. Machine learning adds another dimension to this. In her book "Weapons of Math Destruction", Cathy O'Neil highlights the umaccountability of algorithms used to make decisions that have a significant impact on peoples' lives. The details of these algorithms are often undocumented---for commercial or security reasons---making it difficult … [Read more...]
Machine learning replacing traders at Goldman Sachs
Traditionally automation has displaced low skilled labor. But the big opportunities for machine learning lie in the areas currently staffed by professionals. Marty Chavez, deputy CFO at Goldman Sachs recently explained that automation had cost 600 equity traders their jobs. Furthermore, he went on to describe how the same innovation is being applied to areas such as currency trading and even some … [Read more...]
5 Machine Learning Books Worth Reading
Learning Tree published my article on five machine learning books that are worth reading. They stretch from non-technical to university textbook. The books are The Master Algorithm Mastering Machine Learning with R Machine Learning with Spark Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective Superintelligence … [Read more...]
Amazon AI
Amazon is the latest company to offer developers access to AI services. There are four available. Amazon Lex---Build conversational interfaces using voice and text, powered by the same deep learning technologies as Alexa Amazon Rekognition---Deep learning-based image recognition Amazon Polly---Turn text into lifelike speech using deep learning Amazon Machine Learning---A scalable machine … [Read more...]
RStudio 1.0 released
RStudio have released version 1.0 of their eponymous R IDE. They are calling it their ...biggest [release] ever! It certainly has a number of very significant features. Integrated support for Spark Spark and R are core tools for data scientists. While Spark has an R API, support for the machine learning libraries is lagging. So, it's great to hear that RStudio now has integrated support … [Read more...]