When a lie becomes so big, it turns into the truth — An interesting phenomena happened last week; Coca-Cola saw its share price drop from $56.16 close of Friday, 11 June, to about $55.30 during opening on Monday, 14 June (a 1.6% drop or $4BN loss in market value). At the same time as the markets opened on Monday in New York…

We’re in the end game now — Disclaimer: this article does not constitute financial advice. About 6 months ago I wrote a comprehensive piece on the DotCom Bubble. It was a sort of spin-off from my main piece, which was about Amazon’s meteoric rise to the top and how the DotCom Bubble shaped the company. My article…

Some of these NLP models are a mouthful — While computers are very good at crunching numbers and executing logical commands, they still struggle with the nuances of the human language! Word embeddings aim to bridge that gap by constructing dense vector representations of words that capture meaning and context, to be used in downstream tasks such as question-answering…

Stick it in neutral, RNNs — This is the forth and final post in our series of blog posts focusing on the field of Natural Language Processing! In our first post, we saw that the application of neural networks for building language models was a major turning point in the NLP timeline, and in our second…

Graduate jobs require more than just a graduate with a related degree. — It’s 2016. I just finished my B.Sc in Mathematical Science (Stream Computer Science) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Even though I had spent 3 grueling years juggling mathematics, actuarial statistics, graph theory, advanced algorithms, numerical methods, parallel programming, requirements specifications and web development, I felt no more prepared for…

Perhaps the frequency of bubbles coincides with the memory span of investors. — I was only about 5 years old when the DotCom Bubble took effect, and while the DotCom Bubble was recent enough to live in most people’s memories and not in the dusty history books, in the technology age 20 years is a millennium. Just look at that billboard, it is…

I’m guessing you’d rather welcome change than cling to the past. — “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never give in. Nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” — Winston Churchill We are often…

This article is based on the paper: Jeanne E Daniel, Willie Brink, Ryan Eloff, Charles Copley. 2019. “Towards Automating Healthcare Question Answering in a Noisy Multilingual Low-Resource Setting. ” In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Q: What are the signs of labor? A…

“Empathy will set us free.” — Sophia the Robot — I was fortunate enough to recently attend the Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) 2018, hosted in Hermanus by CAIR. This was the first conference I have attended that placed a very serious emphasis on the Ethics of AI, with quite a few speakers coming from Philosophy backgrounds. …