All Politics Is Local: Why Boston’s City Government is Making a Smart Investment in Machine Learning
The City of Boston is leveraging machine learning to better deliver on the fundamental promises of local government.
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Defense Distributed: Is There a Future for Gun-control?
The essay is about the explosive issues surrounding Defense Distributed, a company that develops virtual blueprints of guns that anyone can download and use to print a gun at home, in a 3d printer. Most importantly, it is about additive manufacturing and its potentially huge impacts in society and does not intend to take a side on any political issue or on the merits of people or organizations represented in it.
(AI) Content is King?
Still largely unknown to the average user outside China, Jinri Toutiao (Chinese for “today’s headlines”) is as unicorn as unicorns can get. Launched just 6 years ago by Zhang Yiming, a Chinese software engineer and serial entrepreneur, Toutiao is most […]
Machine Learning at Ant Financial (724 Words)
Discussion of innovation at Ant Financial wrt machine learning and the ramifications of those innovations.
Sorting and securing at scale: machine learning at Dropbox
How Dropbox leverages machine learning in its quest to help users maintain focus.
Commoditizing Crowdsourcing; How a Distributed Network Helped Build a Business
Premise uses distributed data collection to gather valuable information for customers ranging from governments to businesses.
Additive Manufacturing for The Final Frontier: How 3D Printing Can Take Us to Mars (and Beyond)
A look at how NASA is using additive manufacturing on Earth and in orbit to realize the future of space exploration.
Crowdsourcing legacy: How Rio is changing policymaking
The government of Rio de Janeiro asked its citizens to propose ways to build a legacy for Rio after the 2016 Olympic Games.
Are Algorithms the Hiring Managers of the Future?
In the war for talent, companies are looking for an edge as they recruit new employees. Some innovative firms are combining data and machine learning to streamline their hiring processes and replace the traditional resume screens of days past.
The Future of Venture Capital: Humans vs. Machines
As venture capital firms look to gain a competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded space, GV has turned to a computer algorithm, named "The Machine", to guide investment decision making.