The death of the stars: A brief primer on online user ratings
A few weeks back, Netflix announced that they were adding a two thumbs up option to give feedback on their content. At the same time I was being asked on Twi...
Recent Posts
On the “Usefulness” of the Netflix Prize
It has been over 10 years since the Netflix Prize finished, and I was not expecting to write a blog post about it at this point. However, just in the past co...
The AI/ML FDA Plan
In case you are not familiar with it, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. that is res...
On Decoupling
You have probably heard of the butterfly effect: a distant butterfly flapping its wings can have a hard-to-predict effect on a future event. Everything seems...
Scaling healthcare through AI
Curai’s mission is to “provide the world’s best healthcare to everyone”. In order to do so, we strive to scale the reach of an individual physician by creati...
The 7+1 Habits of Highly Successful Leaders
I recently had a candidate I was interviewing to ask about my leadership style. I gave a short answer, but I was left thinking that I would have liked to con...
The year in AI: 2019 ML/AI advances recap
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to do an end-of-year retrospective of advances in AI/ML (see last year’s round up for example), so here we go ag...
Data as Prior/Innate knowledge for Deep Learning models
There is a long history of debate about how much of human knowledge is innate and how much is learned from experience/data. This is also known as the nature ...