No, not likely. According a recent MIT Technology Review article, experts in the field of AI and Machine Learning don’t foresee the field’s ability to tackle global problems (food disparity, climate change, global poverty) anytime soon but all appear to agree in its inevitability. So we’ve still got a few years to prepare for the […]
Let’s take a moment to have a frank discussion about the length of hiring processes. The Wall Street Journal just released (1/19/16) an article about the lengthening of hiring process in recent years. The average process has increased 10 days (from 13 to 23 days) since 2010. The article says this is because of the […]
Chess is analogous to numerous things in the business world. Recruiting is definitely one of them. Both recruiting and chess can make you go insane (there’s a ‘searching for Bobby Fisher’ joke somewhere in that idea) and can appear to be a series of random events to an outside or untrained observer. Like chess, recruiting […]
There has been a trend in the tech world for the past few years called ‘acqui-hire’. This is a strategy that involves buying startups that meet certain criteria not for the product but for the team that built the product. The typical criteria are startups that aren’t generating revenue, had the last round of financing […]
The internet of things (IoT) has been a dream for over 20 years. The initial vision was having a ‘smart-home’ with smart appliances that speak with one another and their owners to make life more convenient. Running low on milk? Need to pick up eggs? Did you forget to lock your doors or turn off […]
On Monday, January 18, 2016, Yahoo announced that it is sharing over 13.5TB of data encapsulating 4 months of usage data. 110 billion instances of 20 million users are being shared with the academic institutions to allow data scientists and academics access to the ‘largest-ever machine learning data set.” This is exciting news for internet […]
