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Board games are getting better (confessions of a former role player)
At the time I would probably not have admitted to it in certain circles, but in my teens I was an enthusiastic player of role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Cyberpunk. The rule book for...
View ArticleThe Economist on the problem with Clayton Christensen
The Economist’s Schumpter column published an article on Clayton Christensen last week called Disrupting Mr Disrupter. The author isn’t quite as harsh as I was the other day but is sceptical...
View ArticleMachine learning in the real world
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I studied neural networks, the methodology that underpins much of machine learning, as part of my master’s degree in computer science. At the time it was a...
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Football statistics visualised (and how data is giving Arsenal an edge)
In sports the term “moneyball” refers to using statistics rather than gut instinct when it comes to recruitment and strategy. Recently, football is being moneyballed to a greater and greater extent. My...
View ArticleThe democratisation of branding
I’ve discovered two restaurants recently via the food delivery service Deliveroo. Giving the founder of Deliveroo a hug is on my bucket list but that is another story. The two restaurants are achieving...
View ArticleMIT PhD student explains why self-driving cars (probably) won’t lead to the...
Machine learning is all the rage these days. Last year’s FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year was “The Rise of the Robots”, a bleak prediction of how machine automation will take more and more...
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Four ways HipChat can catch up with Slack
Our team has been using HipChat forever. Since before Slack was cool. Yesterday I got an email from Atlassian (who run HipChat). New: Request your next Uber in HipChat! I use HipChat every day. I use...
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Analysing data about the world’s billionaires with Datasmoothie
At Datasmoothie we love data sets from interesting places about interesting topics. So when we came across a detailed list of the world’s billionares since 1996 we were intruiged. We decided to upload...
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The “rags to political office” pitch and dirty campaigning
The results from the London Mayoral election are sill be announced later today. A few days ago the above pamphlet dropped in through my letterbox. “The council estate boy who’ll fix the Tory housing...
View ArticleDear Dropbox: Hire some web engineers
Yes, that is a giant Panda. #dropbox A photo posted by Malcolm (@ayeitsmalcolm) on Apr 12, 2016 at 4:22pm PDT Business insider had a story recently on how Dropbox is cutting costs. It involves a...
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