“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom… is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” Anthony Bourdaine American cook/author and global traveler We have remained in a viral apoc
“Some executives think that artificial intelligence is a sentient being, but it is simply a better way to turn data into actionable insights.“ Ryan Detert, CEO Influential Artificial intelligence (AI), with its machine and deep learning, natural language processing, and robotic process automation to
“Humans, it turns out, are not very good at Bayesian inference, at least when verbal reasoning is involved. The problem is that we tend to neglect the cause’s prior probability. ” Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm We remain in the most challenging global health crisis of our generation, with t
“Math is the logic of certainty, and statistics is the logic of uncertainty.” Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard statistician It is supremely frustrating for scientists who work with a few of the world leaders who have extreme form of confirmation bias and refuse to update their beliefs based on new observa
“If we are not careful, AI will perpetuate the bias in this world. Computers learn how to be racist, sexist, and prejudiced in a similar way that a child does. The computers learn from their creator-us.” Aylin Caliskan, computer scientist The COVID-19 pandemic and the protests for racial equality ra
“Algorithms are still made by human beings, and those algorithms are still pegged to basic human assumptions. They’re just automated assumptions. And if you don't fix the bias, then you are just automating the bias.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Algorithms have evolved from straigh
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. in a letter from a Birmingham jail, April, 1963 This is one of the most tumultuous times in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic, as appalling as it has been, has brought forth a few dividends: time with family, time for int
“Simple and complicated contexts assume an ordered universe, where cause-and-effect relationships are perceptible, and right answers can be determined based on the facts. Complex and chaotic contexts are unordered, and there is no immediately apparent relationship between cause and effect, and the w
“The only thing you can do that will change your future life are the decisions that you make. Otherwise you are not the wind, but the leaf in the wind.” Ronald Howard, retired Stanford professor of Electrical Engineering There is a supreme imbroglio now with the COVID-19 pandemic as it runs its apoc