Author: Anders Lisdorf
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AI, Traffic Tickets and Stochastic Liberty
Recently I received a notification from Green Mobility the electric car ride-share company I am using some times. I have decided not to own a car any longer and experiment with other mobility options, not that I care about the climate, it’s just, well, because. I like these cars a lot, I like their speed…
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The 7 Dimensions of Data Value and How To Improve It
One thing that you quickly realise when you are trying to build a solid data offering is that data is not just data. Just like food is not just food and clothes not just clothes. A Metallica T-shirt is fine if you are going to sit on your couch and watch football with your bro, but…
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The Challenges of Implementing AI Solutions – A Personal Journey
For about a decade I have been involved in various system development efforts that involved Artificial Intelligence. They have all been challenging but in different ways. Today AI is rightfully considered a game changer in many industries and areas of society, but it makes sense to reflect on the challenges I have encountered in order…
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Do Product Managers Need to have Programming Experience?
Do you need to be able to program to be a good product manager? Opinions differ widely here. Full disclosure: I have very little if any meaningful command of any programming language. If you feel you need to be able to program in order to have an informed opinion, you have already answered the question…
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AI is Easy – Life is Hard
Artificial Intelligence is easy. Life is hard. This simple insight should collectively caution our expectations. When we look at Artificial Intelligence and the amazing results it has already produced, it is clear that it has not been easy. The most iconic victories are as follows. Deep Blue beats Kasparov Watson beats champions Brad Rutter and Ken…
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AI and the City
Artificial Intelligence is currently being touted as solution to most problems. Most if not all energy is put into conjuring up new and even more exotic machine learning models and ways of optimizing these. However, the primary boundary for AI is currently not technical as it used to be. It is ecological. Here I am…
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Data Is the New Oil – Building the Data Refinery
“Data Is the New Oil!” Mathematician and IT Architect Clive Humby seems to have been the first to coin the phrase in 2006 where he helped Tesco develop from a fledgling UK retail chain to an inter continental industry titan only rivaled be the likes of Walmart and Carrefour through the use of data through…
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Information System Modernization – The Ship of Theseus?
The other day I was listening to a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell. It was about golf clubs (which he hates). Living next to two Golf Courses and frequently running next on them this was something I could relate to. The issue he had was that they did not pay proper tax. This is due to a California…
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A Citywide Mesh Network – Science Fiction or Future Fact?
I recently finished Neal Stephenson’s excellent “Seveneves”. The plot is that the moon blows up due to an unknown force. Initially people marvel at the now fragmented moon, but due to the intelligent analysis of one of the protagonists it becomes clear that these fragments will keep fragmenting and eventually rain down on earth. The lunar…
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The Data Deluge, Birds and the Beginning of Memory
One of my heroes is the avant garde artist Laurie Anderson. She is probably best known for the unlikely hit “Oh Superman” in the eighties and being married to Lou Reed, but I think she is an artist of comparable or even greater magnitude. On one of her later albums is a typical Laurie Anderson song…
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