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Asking RNNs+LTSMs: What Would Mozart Write?

Preamble: A natural progression beyond artificial intelligence is artificial creativity. I've been interested in AC for awhile and …

Five Takeaways on the State of Natural Language Processing

Thoughts following the 2015 “Text By The Bay” Conference

The first "Text By the Bay” conference, a new natural …

Two Unicorns of Tech: Full-Stack Engineers and General Data Scientists

On hiring those with deep knowledge and specialized talents By construction and definition, a full technology stack must exist for any …

An early warning device of earthquakes (and other maladies) for everyone

Summary In October 2013, I built a prototype earthquake early warning (EEW) device, for less than $110 in parts, for my house that taps …

A Test for Artificial Creativity

Wealth and Labor in the Cognitive Automation Era

Disruptive technologies have always been greeted with a concern—and many times a back reaction—by the institutions that they are, or …

Bitcoin is dead. Long live cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin, in case you've been off grid, is all the rage. From rising public usage, to growing daily trade volumes, to rapidly increasing …

Is there an Uncanny Valley of Machine Intelligence?

Roboticists know a lot about the uncanny valley, that uncomfortable place in utility and appearance where robots look and act …