What is AI – specifically what is deep learning? (and the internet of things – IoT)

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series What is AI once and for all?

#Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Most of us are

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What is AI – specifically what is machine learning?

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series What is AI once and for all?

#Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Most of us are

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What is AI – the definitive guide

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series What is AI once and for all?

#Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Most of us are

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Are developers getting smarter or dumber?

Are developers getting smarter or dumber? I personally didn’t start coding because it was a huge passion.  I wanted to go down the road of building super cool things for NASA (or CSA – the Canadian Space Agency) and while

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Unicorns distract tech founders from the grave

Unicorns distract tech founders from the grave This week’s article will be much smaller and lighter to consume, it is merely a warning to all #founders and investors out there about #unicorns. Lee calculated that 1 in 1,538 software and

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The best decisions I’ve made in my career

The best decisions I’ve made in my career I have always had a bit of an edge, something super competitive in me that drove me to be better than my self of yesterday. It’s an unrelenting hunger that I use

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The journey of building an ML or AI real time pipeline

Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply

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Rise of Incubators and Accelerators, Geoffrey Hinton’s influence, an AI National focus and looking to the future

This is the final of the series where I will examine the problem that #Canada has with its lack of #funding for #technology startups. If you happen to have missed part I of Canada, and more specifically Toronto, belongs at the

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The Integral Cross-Discipline Approach to Pushing AI Research – Techvibes

In an era of crazy AI promises, cross-discipline and often time model <–> operator (or system <–> operator) is the real answer. … every time a researcher and practitioner considers their next project, I challenge them to ask themselves a

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University of Waterloo and University of Toronto students’ obsession with the valley

This is part IV of the series where I will examine the problem that #Canada has with its lack of funding for #technology startups. If you happen to have missed part I of Canada, and more specifically Toronto, belongs at the

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