Or how to make sure the airplane’s altitude is not negative. — Luckily, the lazy habit of writing “bug fixes and stability improvements” hasn’t found its way to the software libraries’ release notes . Without checking these notes, I wouldn’t have realized that Scikit-Lean version 0.23 implements Generalized Linear Models (GLM). I pay extra attention to Scikit-Learn. Not only because I use…

When does automation suit your business model? — It’s not that the phone wasn’t sharp enough to cut the orange, it’s that it’s not the right tool for the job. Most of the time when ML (machine learning) doesn’t meet its business potential, it’s not that your data is incomplete or your data scientists aren’t extroverted introverts, or…

A book review, originally posted on my old blog in 2014 — I have just finished reading a great book by Phil Barden called Decoded. The book shows us how branding works in order to influence our purchase decisions. “Strong brands have a real effect in the brain, and this effect is to enable intuitive and rapid decision making without thinking” —…

Why I am not using business intelligence tools anymore — Every time I need some data, I reach wrong conclusions after using the BI tool we have. As a machine learning engineer, it is usually the case that I want to build a business case to estimate whether automating a certain process worth our efforts or not. I have two…

Unless you don’t care much about your own mental health — 1- People who try to differentiate between Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) They’re the same fuck’n thing. Okay, if you squint your eyes hard enough, you may notice some differences, but trust me, nobody cares. It’s like people differentiating between England and Great Britain. It’s the same fuck’n thing. Maybe people living on that freaky island care to differentiate, but anybody living…

My honest* responses to the cliché job interview questions — In a previous post, I wrote about another cliché interview question, “What are your weaknesses?”. In today’s post, I am going to respond to a different, and maybe trickier, question, “where do you see yourself in 5 years?”. “All happy families are alike; and every unhappy family is unhappy in…

What can we learn from the single thread by Naval, which is retweeted 50,000 times and counting? — On average twitter threads receive 60% more visibility and engagement*. But who cares about averages? On average, a human has one breast and one testicle, duh! We don’t want on-averages here, we want to learn how the wizards of the internet use threads. Forget about the surface area game The common wisdom says that stitching multiple…

Can new business models fix our brains, or are we doomed for life? — Last time I checked, I did not suffer from dementia. I can clearly list the insights I had from the book I’m reading now, but I remember nothing from the fifty something articles I read today on the internet. I can vaguely remember their titles though. One was “How the…

My honest* response to the cliché job interview questions — Probably, you were asked the same question in a job interview. Usually, we are not entirely honest when it comes to interviews. Not that everyone gives answers like “my key weakness is working too hard” or “being perfectionist”, but even when responding with actual weaknesses, one tends to tailor them…