Ethical AI 

Before you invent Skynet, check out Hugh Miller's column discussing the European Commission’s recently released guidelines for ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI). He delves into some key issues for business process and algorithm design.

AI researchers need to stop hiding the climate toll of their work

Meanwhile, environmentalist are raising concern that we may be destroying the world just by training the models. The MIT Technology Review examines the issue of state-of-the-art papers requiring increasingly prohibitive compute costs and its link to carbon impact. One silver lining is that many models have subsequently been made public, so that data scientists wishing to replicate results do not have to recreate it from scratch.

DIY driverless car

Self-driving developer Waymo and rideshare company Lyft have both released driverless vehicle datasets, featuring detailed camera and sensor date. Check out the details for Waymo and Lyft. D(r)ive right in!

Lifetime value

Check out this amazing Google Colab notebook for a step by step probabilistic model for customer lifetime value using programming language Python and streaming platform STAN.

Actuarial Data Science

Actuarial Data Science is an initiative from our Swiss counterparts (the Swiss Association of Actuaries) to bring actuaries and data science together. Some of their example case studies may be of interest to both Data Scientists an General Insurance actuaries, and come with code to walk though. There are several lectures and courses in the links.

Protein folding

Protein folding - constructing the right 3D shape of a protein based on the chemical structure – is an important problem with applications in medicine. What’s that got to do with data analytics? Deep learning is emerging as a competitive method for solving the problem.

Top Gear fine-tuning

Some say he has put too many fake-news-generating articles into the newsletter. And that another one on Top Gear quote generation would be excessive. All we know is, you can run this fully functional snippet in Google Colab's hardware.

This AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

Yet another "Artificial Intelligence" startup has been exposed as using the regular intelligence. 

This high-tech solution to disaster response may be too good to be true

And emergency response disaster technology has in some cases been less successful than hoped. 

A Data Scientist who is sceptical about data

So, one may ask, "Is data science legit?"
In the linked article, a professor of data science highlights four pitfalls in excessive reliance on data for decision making.
Make sure you email me your thoughts!

Editor’s Note

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