All I Needed to Know About Machine Learning I Learned at the Wood Mill

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The Value of Machine Learning How would you make Machine Learning valuable? Since Machine Learning is the competitive assembly of algorithms that improve over time, how do you know what algorithms to assemble? How do you make them improve over time? And can you just “add Machine Learning” to make something better? Many years ago […]

Lies, Damn Lies, and Artificial Intelligence

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A Look Back at 2021 and Predictions for 2022

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The Importance of Asset Visibility

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The Beginning of Lucidum

Four years ago, Charles Feng and I met at a restaurant on the coast in California. We had known each other since 2012. We had built internal products together. Over lunch, we decided to build a company together. The question then was what will that company do?