Collapsing the Superposition: The Mathematics of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is one of the most exciting emerging technologies, especially with Google’s Sycamore quantum processor demonstrating supremacy in October of 2019. Quantum computing marks a paradigm shift in computing, having the potential to overhaul digital...
Blockchain Will Transform the Way Banking Apps Work
Every industry nowadays is propelled by the massive adoption of new technologies and digitization. It gives us the perfect picture of how the convergence of these new-age tools and technologies can make work seamless...
A Global Channel for Digital Securities
Tokenized securities were a disaster in 2018. Investors didn’t want them, regulators didn’t like them, and issuers used them to offer scammy small-caps. All of those things need to change before we can use...
Andrew Ng Is Wrong About Artificial Superintelligence
Worrying about AI evil superintelligence today is like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars. We haven't even landed on the planet yet! - Andrew Ng
Elon Musk has warned us. Stephen Hawking has warned...
Artificial intelligence brings us back to the human touch
With work teams scattered at homes and elsewhere, staying connected has taken on greater importance.
“The pandemic forced us to digitally transform the world overnight," said Guibert Englebienne, chief technology officer and co-founder of Globant,...
4 Key Habits I Learned as a Software Engineer
Somethings better to know sooner than later, here are the 4 key habits I learned as a software engineer.
I am almost 3 years into software engineering. Honestly, I don’t think I am that good...
The 5 Best Weapons To Manage the Future
2020 — the Great Swift — The best is yet to come
"A life devoted only to the present — to feeling good in the now — is unlikely to deliver real fulfillment. The present...
Voice Isn’t Dead – How AI is Changing The Call Tech Game
Is voice dead? It’s a fair question. Chatter about the digitization of processes, new apps, and enhanced mobile banking technology runs rampant and suggests that a place for voice tech no longer exists. I...
Engage Me or Enrage Me: Gamification will run the world
During the last decade we all got Netflix-ed. Now we will get gamified.
Don’t think ‘only’ games. Think the gamification of our whole lifeworld. Netflix already considers gaming a bigger threat to its business than...
5 Robotic Process Automation Traps to Avoid
Advice on organizational traps by someone who’s been around the RPA block.
Having worked in a few sizable companies during their Robotic Process Automation (RPA) journeys from inception to maturity, I have not only been...
DeFi Is Booming, But There Are Caveats To This Killer DApp
Cryptocurrency may have found a killer DApp, in DeFi (Decentralized Finance). It has opened up the cryptocurrency space with a total valuation locked at $8.11B in early September 2020, with a high of $9.605B (source: DeFi...
Data Apocalypse Later
“Experience as a whole is not something that anyone can be spared”. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Data Driven is a Car Crash?
Thinking about -and operating in -an unknowable future is hard.
But being data driven sure helps...
Five Financial Applications Of Natural Language Processing
The last five years have been revolutionary for the field of natural language processing. We went from glorified ctrl-f to a machine that can write programs for us based on natural language descriptions. While...
Training a digit recognizer using PyTorch, and inferencing on CPU with ONNX Runtime
In any machine learning problem, the goal of our neural network is to do well on the new unseen data, training a deep learning model helps to achieve this goal. We have to focus...
Using Data to Prevent Workplace Accidents
In any industry, the risk of workplace accidents presents a real, costly threat. From overexertion to slips and falls, companies seek to prevent common workplace accidents as much as possible. Unfortunately, no amount of...
A College Student Used A Language Generating AI Tool To Create A Viral Blog...
What does GPT-3 mean for the future of writers?
As writers, we like to tell ourselves that we’re in a profession that can’t be automated, not anytime soon anyway. But artificial intelligence and machine learning...
Confessions — I Absolutely Don’t Love Bitcoin
And neither should you
It's true, I have written several articles on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies which will likely moon in the next year or so. If you haven’t read my articles before, you should understand...
Why We Invested In Totient aka How AI Can Help Us Produce Drugs Against...
On Sep 10, Totient, an AI-driven drug discovery company, emerged from stealth with the announcement of a key partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to rapidly identify neutralizing antibodies against COVID-19. Totient has raised more than...
Machine Ecology
The earth is sick, and the causes of its disease lie in our choices, our myopia, and our lack of imagination.
Climate change, with deforestation, melting glaciers, mass extinctions and carbon emissions, is the biggest...
4 Things I Learned About The Software Engineering Culture
Software engineering is one of the most confusing jobs anyone can do, here are 5 facts why sharing should be the norm
When I started my first job as a software engineer I would have...