Category Archives: artificial intelligence

“Hadoop is NOT ‘Big Data’ is NOT Analytics”

Posted on 8 April 2017 by

Arun Krishnan, CEO & Founder at  Analytical Sciences comments on this serious problem with the field. Short excerpt: … A person who is able to write code using Hadoop and the associated frameworks is not necessarily someone who can understand … Continue reading →

Posted in alchemy, American Statistical Association, artificial intelligence, big data, data science, engineering, Internet, jibber jabber, machine learning, natural language processing, NLTK, sociology, superstition

Google’s DeepMind consistently beats Fan Hui, the European GO grandmaster

Posted on 27 January 2016 by

This is pretty amazing news. DeepMind’s program AlphaGo beat Fan Hui, the European Go champion, five times out of five in tournament conditions, the firm reveals in research published in Nature on 27 January. It also defeated its silicon-based rivals, … Continue reading →

Posted in artificial intelligence, deep recurrent neural networks, Go, machine learning, perceptrons

Professor Marvin Minsky dies at 88: What a noble mind is here o’erthrown

Posted on 26 January 2016 by

As a prospective and actual graduate student in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory during the years 1974-1976, it is difficult to convey the draw and the incisiveness of Minsky’s mind. As an undergraduate in Physics with a very keen interest in … Continue reading →

Posted in artificial intelligence, machine learning, Marvin Minsky', neural nets, perceptrons, Seymour Papert