The holy grail of machine learning has always been a “Skynet” type of artificial intelligence that could generally learn anything (artificial general intelligence), and the biggest advancement toward achieving such A.I. is deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The reason for this is DRL’s ability to solve a vast array of problems; its application ranges from learning... Continue reading →

Meet Mary Ann Brennan (@mabmierau) presenting… Eliminating Machine Bias Mary Ann is a jack-of-all-trades software engineer with background in iOS and full-stack web at a bunch of startups you’ve probably never heard of. She’s currently using her extended maternity leave to refresh her studies in Artificial Intelligence, the concentration for her master’s in Computer Science... Continue reading →

While at Goto Conf in Chicago today I had two thoughts while talking with Joe (@joelaha) while hanging out with Bridget (@bridgetkromhout) while waiting for Lena’s (@lenadroid) talk on “Distributed Data Stores on Kubernetes“. All that wrapped up into a few ideas for future conferences. Here, I present them to you dear readers, please lament,... Continue reading →

Once upon a time in a part of the tech universe far far away, there was a general consensus to block all JavaScript from browser execution. It was the way things were because JavaScript was seen as harmful. You see, the early miscreants of that time had used JavaScript to write all sorts of problematic... Continue reading →