How intelligent are our machines?September 07, 2017Human intelligence is remarkably correlated across domains. Do we mistakenly generalize this when assessing machines?
The Right Energy at the Right TimeJune 12, 2017During my ASI Fellowship I worked with Origami Energy, optimizing Demand Side Response programs for industrial energy usage.
Driverless cars and the attention economyJune 08, 2017Driverless cars aren’t just a matter of convenience: they’re liberating hours of the day you could be buying things via Google!
Seeing the science in startupsApril 09, 2017If you squint a bit, building startups and doing science look kind of similar.
Building a Burns bot #2: Making a SlackbotMarch 08, 2017Here we take the Markov-chain based Burn’s Bot we created in the previous post and turn it into a living, breathing Slackbot to deliver Burns on demand.
Building a Burns bot #1: Markov models for poetry generationMarch 07, 2017How to generate synthetic poetry with the Markov models and a wee dram of whisky,
