Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
On March 12, 2018, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group announced: “We find that our latest neural machine translation system has reached a new state-of-the-art, and that the translation quality…
Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Echoing Lewis Carroll, a colleague reminded me once that words mean whatever we choose to have them mean—a practice that might work if we lived in isolation from one another and if nothing that we said or did mattered. Alas, language, like personal devices, seems to...
Mar 23, 2017 | Analytic Tools, Blog
In Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert observed that “Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.” Referring to the painful misconceptions that arise when we use...
