Blog Archive thoughts and reports on machine learning and privacy

2018

November

• November 5, 2018 » The 3Ds of Machine Learning Systems Design

February

• February 6, 2018 » Natural and Artificial Intelligence

2017

November

• November 15, 2017 » Decision Making and Diversity

July

• July 17, 2017 » What is Machine Learning?

March

• March 14, 2017 » Discarded Hard Drives: Data Science as Debugging

January

• January 16, 2017 » Questions on Artificial Intelligence
• January 12, 2017 » Data Readiness Levels: Turning Data from Palid to Vivid

2016

December

• December 13, 2016 » Post NIPS Reflections
• December 2, 2016 » Salon des Refusés

November

• November 29, 2016 » Don't Panic: Deep Learning will be Mostly Harmless
• November 19, 2016 » Lies, Damned Lies and Big Data

July

• July 26, 2016 » Re-work Interview Questions
• July 1, 2016 » Data Science Challenges

June

• June 23, 2016 » The Real Story Behind Today's Referendum
• June 3, 2016 » Data trusts could allay our privacy fears

May

• May 29, 2016 » Data Trusts
• May 15, 2016 » 'NLP is a Rabbit in the Headlights' quote
• May 9, 2016 » Future of AI 6. Discussion of 'Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies'
• May 9, 2016 » Future of AI 5: The Singularians
• May 5, 2016 » Google's NHS deal does not bode well for the future of data-sharing

April

• April 28, 2016 » Data Analysis, NHS and Industrial Partners
• April 22, 2016 » AI and ML Futures 4: The Future of AI Meeting
• April 7, 2016 » Becoming More Efficient
• April 5, 2016 » Sheffield University Life

March

• March 15, 2016 » David MacKay Symposium
• March 9, 2016 » Quora Q&A Session Answers
• March 4, 2016 » Deep Learning, Pachinko, and James Watt: Efficiency is the Driver of Uncertainty
• March 1, 2016 » Sheffield Advertises Posts in Machine Learning

February

• February 29, 2016 » Future Debates: This House Believes An Artificial Intelligence will Benefit Society
• February 24, 2016 » Science Week Talk 2016

January

• January 17, 2016 » AI and ML Futures 3: The Trojan Wars of Machine Learning
• January 17, 2016 » AI and ML Futures 2: The Quiet Revolution
• January 17, 2016 » AI and ML Futures 1: Background

2015

December

• December 21, 2015 » A Seasonal Test of AI
• December 14, 2015 » OpenAI won't benefit humanity without data-sharing
• December 13, 2015 » 10 ways you might be able to tell when an area of research is undergoing rapid expansion and society's expectations may be somewhat unrealistic ...
• December 6, 2015 » A Modern Version of Occam's Razor
• December 4, 2015 » System Zero: What Kind of AI have we Created?

November

• November 17, 2015 » It's not an Internet of Things, It's an Internet of People
• November 16, 2015 » The Information Barons Threaten our Autonomy and Our Privacy
• November 9, 2015 » Artificial Stupidity and the Mechanistic Fallacy

October

• October 5, 2015 » Craft Software

September

• September 6, 2015 » 'Quantum' Theory of Accountability

August

• August 25, 2015 » How Africa can benefit from the data revolution
• August 3, 2015 » Responding to Reviewer Comments

July

• July 30, 2015 » Ferrari Looking for Gaussian Process Experts
• July 23, 2015 » Get Your NIPS Reviews in!
• July 23, 2015 » The Data-Driven Economy will Help Marketers Exploit Us
• July 21, 2015 » Guardian Internet of Things Live Webchat Summary
• July 14, 2015 » Digested Thoughts on the Panel on Future of Deep Learning
• July 12, 2015 » Thoughts on ICML 2015 or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Cheer from the Sidelines"

June

• June 16, 2015 » Second Day of Data Science in Africa
• June 15, 2015 » First Day of Data Science in Africa
• June 14, 2015 » Arrival in Nyeri
• June 12, 2015 » Data Science School in Nyeri, Kenya
• June 12, 2015 » How to Prevent Creeping Artificial Intelligence Becoming Creepy
• June 12, 2015 » AI 'cheating' scandal makes computer science sound like a sport – it isn't
• June 4, 2015 » Baidu and the Imagenet Challenge
• June 4, 2015 » Careers day at Hunter's Bar Junior School
• June 3, 2015 » The Mind and the Immune System

May

• May 22, 2015 » Talking Machines
• May 19, 2015 » Guardian Round Table on Internet of Things

April

• April 14, 2015 » DALI Meeting + Views on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• April 14, 2015 » Legislation for Personal Data: Magna Carta or Highway Code?

March

• March 30, 2015 » NIPS Experiment Analysis
• March 30, 2015 » Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
• March 25, 2015 » Can you select for 'robustness'?
• March 5, 2015 » Beware the Rise of the Digital Oligarchy

February

• February 28, 2015 » Questions on Deep Gaussian Processes

January

• January 16, 2015 » Blogs on the NIPS Experiment
• January 14, 2015 » Open Collaborative Grant Writing

2014

December

• December 16, 2014 » The NIPS Experiment

October

• October 1, 2014 » Alan Turing Institute: Critical Mass or Incubated Lungs?

September

• September 19, 2014 » Gaussian Process Summer School
• September 13, 2014 » NIPS: Decision Time

August

• August 2, 2014 » Reviewer Calibration for NIPS

July

• July 24, 2014 » NIPS Reviewer Recruitment and 'Experience'
• July 1, 2014 » Open Data Science

June

• June 28, 2014 » Paper Allocation for NIPS

March

• March 5, 2014 » AI Developments

January

• January 23, 2014 » Five Interesting Papers

2013

December

• December 9, 2013 » Facebook Buys into Machine Learning

November

• November 25, 2013 » GPy: Moving from MATLAB to Python

July

• July 11, 2013 » EPSRC College of Reviewers

2012

October

• October 26, 2012 » Kappenball

July

• July 5, 2012 » Machine Learning as Engine Design

May

• May 20, 2012 » Personal Thoughts on Computer Science Degrees

2011

July

• July 13, 2011 » Tau Clock

2010

October

• October 13, 2010 » MATweave

2009

November

• November 18, 2009 » Lotfi achieves lofty status

February

• February 4, 2009 » MATLAB Bug