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I totally agree with the gist of this article. This hype is being propagated by a lot of folks who are willingly clueless, as for example, in the data science crowd. This band-wagon is crowded and isn’t stopping any time soon.

It irks me to no end to comme across tutorial-style articles proclaiming to teach an AI algorithm, also known as ‘linear regression’.

What bugs me the most though, are the countless ‘influencers’ on LinkedIn which spew rubbish about machine learning, AI and all the wonderful things that are just around the corner.

Lastly, it doesn’t help when countless articles/books are written on the subject of AI dangers, AI ethics and are ‘robots coming for us?’. These add fuel to the fire of hype.

In the end, this behavior will only guarantee the eventual blowing-up of the bubble, when promises are not delivered.

Great article. Back in the 80’s Scientific American magazine published much more substantial articles than it does today. Nowadays, its articles are very much watered-down and superficial.

Learned BASIC on the Sinclair ZX81, then BBC model B. Did a ton of VB6 which was great and then on to VB.NET. Also a lot of Excel VBA.

The ability to knock-up great GUI’s using Visual Studio’s WinForms was extremely valuable, having to develop trading desk applications quickly. Then, Microsoft introduced WPF and that’s where I jumped ship.

VB6 was actually a powerful language, compiler which was highly optimized and rivaled C++ in terms of performance. It was a highly productive language for many.

That may be true in some sectors but not all. In capital markets (banks, investment funds etc) a lot of coding (via DSL or not) is done by folks who are not developers/programmers or self-declared coders. They just get it done and don’t bother calling on IT which is often counter-productive. Wether its SQL, VBA, R, Python or some some horribly-convoluted Excel worksheets, there is plenty of technical work getting done by non-developers.

1. Diversity of opinion is valuable. You can express your opinion without diminishing someone else's. 2. Balance your technical work with real subject matter expertise

Or Air Worldwide, or RMS, KatRisk, CoreLogic.

Depending where you live, be sure that your homeowners insurance will cost you more. The repricing will happen quicker than you might think.

There is increasing recognition by institutional investors that climate change risk is a factor which must be measured and managed. While there are opportunistic trades to be had, the sheer volume of pension fund money slowly shifting to de-risk will have significant impact on industry.

Very nicely done!

Truly a very French bunch of elitist old farts, l’academie.

My Asus Zenbook runs Fedora 29 without any issues. Great laptop.

You might want to include www.elephantsql.com as well. They provide a level of support big cloud providers don’t.

Nicely done

Very nicely done.

Surely https://littlebits.com/ It's a fantastic educational tool