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Latest Read: Hello World

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry, Today Hannah is a senior lecturer at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.

Hello World Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry

Generally speaking, Hannah has written a wonderful book addressing algorithms and artificial intelligence. Society has certainly fallen behind the moral implications of algorithms and Hannah speaks truth to power.

Above all, do not let the idea of learning about algorithms, artificial intelligence, or machine learning intimate you. Hannah explains all of these terms with easy to understand examples. This is why her book is popular and well regarded.

I really appreciate how Hannah is addressing algorithm technology across the following chapters: Power, Data, Justice, Medicine, Cars, and Crime. However, I will save her best lesson for last.

Machines that see

So, Hannah reveals artificial intelligence allows a computer to identify dogs. Once a computer has identify over one million dog photos, artificial intelligence can identify dogs like an expert.

Yet, when applying this to breast cancer diagnosis the magic of machine learning can truly shine. Feed a computer millions images of breast cancer tissue images and a local doctor at a small community hospital in remote Iowa can tap into machine learning to help diagnose with a better degree of accuracy once only for a doctor with 20 years of breast cancer diagnosis at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

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Latest Read: Think Again

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant. A wonderfully interesting book that promotes all the benefits of doubt. Yes, call it re-thinking. Actually, call it why we refuse to change and the negative results that arise.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Knowby Adam Grant

Adam accurately states: The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club. At the same time, in today’s charged political landscape I had a number of good laughs.

Accordingly, Adams message is that easy access to web-based articles or videos written by anyone on any topic, we believe that we can become subject matter experts in two minutes.

This has disastrous consequences. Yet, Adam reveals how we can overcome this flaw by developing habits that force us all to embrace the challenge to our beliefs and change them when necessary.

Chapter 4’s Fight Club addressing Brad Bird’s role at Pixar is a worthy example of how teams can alter accepted skillsets to create award winning animation. You will learn how The Incredibles forced Brad to work with his “Pirate team” and still succeeded wildly. You can learn about changing long held beliefs.

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Latest Read: The Leading Brain

The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier by Neuropsychologist Friederike Fabritius and leadership expert Dr. Hans Hagemann.

The Leading Brain

They collaborate combining expertise in both neuropsychology and management consulting to present a series of powerful brain strategies for organizations and individuals to gain peak performance.

I was very impressed with this book. There is much to learn about recent neuroscience technology revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. There are certainly a lot of business books addressing peak performance. Most seemingly appear to be based upon well intentioned goal setting and had limited access to scientific data to support their theories how organizations can thrive.

However this book reveals how science and recent technology advances can now enhance the following brain abilities: Sharpening focus, Achieving the highest performance, Learning and retaining information more efficiently, Improving complex decision-making, Cultivating trust and building strong teams.

Light touch of science

Everyone will certainly discover a unique introduction to dopamine, acetylcholine, and noradrenaline. But worry not there is no test, only learning about how technology advancements in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines can now identify specific brain conditions due to understanding of quantum physics that impact performance. Seemingly legacy approaches were simply well intentioned wild guessing.

With this new understanding of how the brain behaves during various workplace scenarios and stress levels we see examples. The first chapter story of how US Astronaut Gordon Cooper handled stress (gentle reminder he fell asleep in the capsule) of the Mercury Atlas 9 during several delays prior to launch.

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Latest Read: Elastic

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change by Leonard Mlodinow. Leonard is in fact a theoretical physicist and widely recognized for his discoveries in physics.

Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow

Throughout the book he shares stories about both parents (before meeting) having survived the holocaust. His father was part of the resistance in Poland and was sent to Buchenwald. Moreover, he worked and co-authored a book with Stephen Hawking.

Leonard describes elastic thinking as “what endows us with the ability to solve novel problems and to overcome the neural and psychological barriers that can impede us from looking beyond the existing order.”

This book certainly reveals new discoveries in the neuroscience of change. Above all, our brain works in many ways, right side versus left side, injury outcomes, medication, and absolutely amazing technology advancements in brain research. For example, the introduction story of Pokemon Go is a baseline example for Elastic Thinking.

Dr. Mlodinow unquestionably identifies elastic thinking as a series of multiple sets: neophilia (an affinity for novelty), schizotypy (a tendency toward unusual perception), imagination and idea generation, and finally divergent and integrative thinking.

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Latest Read: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going by Michael Wooldridge. Michael is Head of Department of Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence Michal Wooldridge

Is artificial intelligence intimidating to you? Above all this is a very easy, enjoyable book. So, Michael states in his introduction “I’m writing a popular science introduction to artificial intelligence.”

Accordingly, Michael has researched artificial intelligence for over 30 years. He is focusing on multi-agent systems drawing upon ideas from game theory, logic, computational complexity, and agent-based modeling.

A short history begins with Alan Turing’s work in 1935 at Cambridge during World War II. This is beyond America’s cultural understanding of Turing’s life from the 2014 movie The Imitation Game. Alan Turing actually defined artificial intelligence.

Machine Learning

Chapter 5: Deep Breakthroughs, addresses why Google acquired DeepMind Technologies, a British-based research laboratory in 2014. Founded in September 2010, DeepMind was introducing a term bounced around a lot: Machine Learning.

There is certainly a great misunderstanding regarding machine learning and deep learning. Additionally, Micheal’s efforts are to be complimented in making this topic understandable.

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