What Data Science Actually Is, and What Data Scientists Actually Do
Almost everything you did today produced data. Unlocking your phone, sending a message, buying groceries with a card, watching a video to the end or closing it after nine seconds. None of that was recorded because anyone cares about you personally. It was recorded because storage is cheap and someone might find it useful later. […]
How a Machine Actually Learns
A three-year-old can identify a dog. Not one specific dog, any dog. A Labrador, a street dog in Chattogram, a cartoon dog, a dog seen from behind in poor light. Nobody gave the child a definition. Nobody listed the criteria. They saw perhaps forty dogs over two years, someone said “dog” each time, and something […]
Everyone Says AI. Almost Nobody Means the Same Thing
In 1997 a computer beat the world chess champion, and it was called artificial intelligence. Today your phone plays chess better than that computer did, and nobody calls it anything. It is just a chess app. This happens every time. Handwriting recognition was AI until banks started reading cheques with it. Spam filtering was AI […]