Category: Northern Ireland
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Dealing With Imposter Syndrome on Panels – #impostersyndrome #beltech2020 #ai #machinelearning #conferences
Thirty-two years into this industry and this was possibly the first time that imposter syndrome didn’t hit me five minutes before the start of the panel. If you are doing a talk and it’s you and you alone, then that’s okay. You’ve put the work in, got the slides sorted, rehearsed(!) and when you stand…
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The National Trust and the Travelling Salesperson – #TSP #Data #NationalTrust @NationalTrustNI #R #RLang
I’ve not had to change much of my routine when it comes to self isolation, I work from home anyways. Saying that with all my speaking engagements cancelled (and rightly so) my brain needed something else to do….. The Travelling Salesperson problem has fascinated me for years but I’ve never had the time to really…
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So tell me about the 94.75%…. #startups #business #IgniteNI #Propel
I’ve been contacted by a few people who seem rather insistent I crawl out of my grumpy cave as I’m not really commenting on things and haven’t done for most of the year. I took the bait…. I fell for it. You can read the full story and list of startups here. A Big Whacking…
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“Where have you been hiding?…..” #nitech #ni #machinelearning #ai #customerloyalty #clojure #java
For those who’ve been asking why I’m not so active in NI….. Errrm, I haven’t. So far 2019 has thrown some joyous curve balls. Some good, some challenging but the pointers to learn from were in plain sight. Not Much Conference Talking…. Last year, 2018, was full on tech talks and as much as I…
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Talking #Kafka and #DeepLearning at #BigDataBelfast
A very quick heads up, I’ll be talking at Big Data Belfast on Thursday 18th October. The talk is an walkthrough of a complete system that creates automated learning system using Kafka and DeepLearning4J. You don’t need any programming knowledge, I’ll be explaining everything in English. The idea is to show what a full system…
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The Northern Ireland #AI Startup Problem – #AI #NorthernIreland #Startups
(The post here reflects my own thoughts and may not be the thoughts of my employer, just putting that out there now to avoid any confusion) The Shift Over the last few months there’s been a shift. A movement from web sites and apps that do stuff (mostly useful, some utterly useless) to a move…
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The ongoing issue of data transparency in Northern Ireland. #data #opendata #charity
There’s an interesting data parallel happening at the moment, the ability to champion open data and all the trimmings: reports, dashboards, findings (with smatterings of bias thrown in for good measure). And on the other hand the one in the cogs of government, this kind of thing. During the Detail Data Conference last week the main…
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Is the @Mattermark score the best NI Startup Score metric? #mattermark #data #startups #clojure
How To Measure a NI Startup? It’s been a question on my mind for a good five years, to the point that in 2015 I bought a domain called nitechrank to collate all the data from various sources and see if it could be resold. No sooner as I started I saw that Mattermark was gaining…
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#Invent2016 – The TechBet Results
First of all, a huge congratulations to Jumpack for becoming overall winner on Invent2016. Right, so while everyone is probably getting drunk now, down to the business of numbers…. The Parimutuel Betting Results A total of 285 virtual coins were wagered, for details of what and how this happened please have a look at my earlier…
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Parimutuel Betting on #Invent2016 Winner – @CatalystIncHQ @ciconnect @cihaloni
Prediction is hard, or perhaps I should say that accurate prediction is hard. The more I study prediction markets, betting odds and the like the more I wonder how transferable those theories are to startups. So I decided to run a small experiment…. Perhaps that work at the Sporting Life did actually rub off on…
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