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5 Reasons Why PLCs Drive Industry 4.0 Topics Generating Billion Dollar Markets

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Nov 10
4 min

5 Reasons Why PLCs Drive Industry 4.0 Topics Generating Billion Dollar Markets

New trends in industrial automation such as virtual commissioning, machine learning algorithms, and smart factory concepts need the PLC.

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Oct 27
3 min

Daddy's Car and Tasmanian Devils

How do songs created by AI sound like? Check it out here!

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Oct 20
3 min

What Is Predictive Policing?

What are predictive policing applications, and how do they affect how we live? Is it like in the movie Minority Report?

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20 Questions to Ace Before Getting a Machine Learning Job

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Oct 6
4 min

20 Questions to Ace Before Getting a Machine Learning Job

What a lucky find on Twitter! 20 questions about machine learning. I tried to answer them and... well, read for yourself :)

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How Can the Tech World Reckon With the Power It Holds in Today’s World?

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Sep 29
2 min

How Can the Tech World Reckon With the Power It Holds in Today’s World?

I have been wondering for some time now whether there is a disconnect between developers and users or not.

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3 Essential Steps to Identify the Best AI Opportunities for Your Business

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Sep 22
4 min

3 Essential Steps to Identify the Best AI Opportunities for Your Business

For some, it is self-evident to use AI in their business and digitalization in the company. For others, it seems more like a trend. And y...

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8 Most Compelling Reasons Why You Have to Understand AI Technology

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Sep 15
3 min

8 Most Compelling Reasons Why You Have to Understand AI Technology

AI has an impact on our daily lives. Therefore, we must talk to experts, programmers, and scientists about the vast potential of AI and e...

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Everything You Need to Know About How to Merge AI and Humans - and What Elon Musk Has to Do With It

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Sep 8
4 min

Everything You Need to Know About How to Merge AI and Humans - and What Elon Musk Has to Do With It

Neuralink's goal is for the brain transplant to pick up on signals in the brain and then translate them into motor controls.

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Everything You Need to Know About Recommendation Systems

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Aug 28
3 min

Everything You Need to Know About Recommendation Systems

Recommendation systems seek to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item.

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Let's Talk Digital Detritus: How Much Data Do I Produce?

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Aug 18
3 min

Let's Talk Digital Detritus: How Much Data Do I Produce?

How much datat do we produce every day? What is a digital footprint and why is there more and more data generated every single day?

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Digital Immortality: Who Wants to Live Forever?

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Aug 11
3 min

Digital Immortality: Who Wants to Live Forever?

Let's live forever and expand knowledge in a way never before seen! Or maybe not? Do we really want to live forever?

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Aug 6
2 min

What is Data Mining?

Data mining is the collection of methods utilized to form sense of data in general by extracting patterns from large data sets.

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Jul 28
3 min

Why Defining Technology Is Difficult

This article will look at the definition of something we all know and use: technology.

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Conditioning Algorithms: Reinforcement Learning - An Introduction

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Jul 23
2 min

Conditioning Algorithms: Reinforcement Learning - An Introduction

Reinforcement learning is a machine learning field concerned with how software agents should take actions.

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Jul 15
2 min

What Is Data Feminism?

Data feminism looks at data from an intersectional feminist point of view, asking questions such as: Data science for whom?

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Jun 30
4 min

5 Types of Bias in Data

While there has never been more data available for making qualified decisions, it is not guaranteed that these decisions are successful.

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Jun 25
3 min

What Is Edge Computing?

Bringing computation and data storage closer together to improve response time and save bandwidth is the goal of edge computing.

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Jun 23
2 min

What is Data?

Generally speaking, data refers to computer information, which is transmitted or stored. However, there are many other different definitions

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White Box vs Black Box Models: How Can They Be Used?

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Jun 19
2 min

White Box vs Black Box Models: How Can They Be Used?

Data scientists building or using machine learning models and, therefore, AI systems use such models to describe a system.

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Jun 17
3 min

Of Feedbacks and PIDs

A principle in control theory: feedback loop. It occurs when outputs are measured and fed as inputs to a control system/controller.

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