A few years ago, like many others around the world, I read Yuval Harari’s Sapiens book. It is a fascinating look at human history, from the perspective of anthropology, sociology and economics. Also, as many others in the computer science field, I have been thinking and working with what Andrej…

Since I joined Loggi, we have been exploring some techniques for a more data-driven decision making process. In this document I describe some of those, from the perspective of what they bring to the table and their limitations. The Hierarchy of Evidence is a well established classification of knowledge gathering…

If you studied machine learning in college or through some tutorials in the internet, you probably have this feeling that the problems solved by it are all similar in some sense. Detecting people in photos, classifying sentiment in a text. …

I had some fun and challenges with the unusual choice of picking Spark ML as my primary building block in one of Kaggle competitions. Read on to learn more. The competition problem statement was to detect duplicate Quora questions, which involves a lot of text analysis, an area we at…

Web scale computing has never been so simple — I work at WorldSense, where we build predictors for the best links you could add in your content by creating large language models from the World Wide Web. …