Author: Marcelo
The mystical underpinnings of Facebook’s anti-fake news algorithms
Imagine you’re Rene Descartes, data scientist at Facebook in charge of saying true things. Problem is, your only input is…
Superman: The Last Son of Prague
Besides everything else, today Superman is an almost satirically strict exemplar of what a “good” immigrant has to look like:…
Cyber-weapons as a form of magic, and why we can’t code our way to a safer internet
A “cyber-weapon” isn’t a thing, but a skill. It’s not an object you can blow up with a missile or…
Wages, jobs, and unions in a world with AI (among other things)
I was quoted in an article in La Nación by Sebastián Campanario on the impact of artificial intelligence on wages…
Applying machine learning to SEC filings to find anomalous companies
Contemporary machine learning algorithms are well-suited to the complex, high-dimensional data associated with accounting records. In this short note we…
Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Brands
Artificial Intelligence techniques behind automated translation and other NLP (Natural Language Processing) applications doesn’t just work at the level of…
Flash fic: Posthumous
The video of my murder had been viral for days. I could understand the initial error, as it was an…
Urban sensors are for the fog of (climate) war
Silicon Valley pitches for smart cities and military descriptions of future battle environments are awfully similar. That’s not entirely coincidental….
What’s the healthiest city in the US? (and what does that even mean?)
(Spoiler alert: it’s not Detroit, and it’d be a relatively simple question if it weren’t for cancer.) The human body…
The normalcy of online learning: the more you study, the better you do
Online learning, after all, is just a form of learning: time spent studying is one of the best predictors of…