Data Science

Lies, damned lies, and rankings: the problem with Bloomberg’s COVID resilience ranking

Every ranking creates winners and losers. In the case of Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking, the Philippines is a loser: dead last and called …


AI Social Impact #3: The Bias Edition

For this edition, we focus on how the use of AI to make decisions that involve humans chips away at the American Dream. We’ll talk about biases and …


February 23, 2016
Is deep learning a Markov chain in disguise?

Andrej Karpathy’s post “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” made splashes last year. The basic premise is that you can create …