What Do I Know?

#Entrepreneur #Advisor #MachineLearning #Mentor Father #AI #FinTech

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

We pay too much attention to people who talk in soundbites and too little attention to those who think in paragraphs.

It's easier to teach a person with complex ideas to be more concise than to teach someone with simple ideas to be more complex.

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

#shocking #CustomerExperience #Vodafone 7 days with no phone line and broadband. 3 calls to customer service
1h 30 min wait time with no human on the other side!
Unbelievable!! What does it take?

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

"... Other than death, all failure is psychological..." USMC field manual.
#Mindset

[Scott Cochran @CoachYeah]

Mindset

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

Inspiring Talk from @dberlind at @MuleSoft 's event last week.
CIO = Chief Imagination Officer!
Reminded me of Alert #Einstein's #quote quote:
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge"

#API #innovation #imagination #CIO #transformation #tech

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

Next step of democratisation and ubiquity of AI...
Computer vision & algorithms crunching moving to the edge. Algo are now getting small enough to run on your phone

#MachineLearning #AI #ComputerVision #ML #innovation #EdgeComputing https://t.co/wuTYoMuFFN

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

The UK just got more power from renewables than fossil fuels for the first time since 1882.

#ClimateChange #Renewables
https://t.co/IA3esDRTd9

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#Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman at the London summit last week.
Great to see Data Warehouse as a Service maturing.
I can see so many use cases for this #tech.
From #DataLake, #Secure #DataSharing to #DataExchange for #MachineLearning.
Watch out #Hadoop!!

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

Pretty refreshing... #Amazon 14 #Leadership Principles

my favourites are:
- Customer Obsession
- Ownership
- Bias for action
- Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
These principles work globally and in any environment or industry
#ownership #Transformation

https://t.co/7DwFS5DGYQ

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

#BigTech experimentations across financial services
#Amazon is using its data to underwrite $5b loans for millions of SMB
big tech will own the relationships while incumbents will become the dumb pipes
#GAFA #Apple #Digital #Transformation #Innovation
https://t.co/17HYW5dPJc

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

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[Thoughtworks @thoughtworks]

Calling all #DataScientists. Catch this article which explores #coding practices for data science. https://t.co/Hsw1qtiMHm #Tech

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

Want to live longer?
Read a book

5 reasons why reading books is good for you...
#learning #future #SkillHacks

https://t.co/srH7NBC7Sh

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

Key Lessons from mature #AI / #ML players
+ tooling : #Keras, #Pytorch, #AutoML and #Jupyter growing rapidly
+ Complement data scientists with people who can identify bus. use cases
+ beyond #DeepLearning: #KnowledgeGraph #ReinforcementLearning
+ budget
https://t.co/PGNIPC2jev

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

R&D Spending Has Dramatically Surpassed Advertising Spending ...
(not just at #MSFT and #Google but globally)

And now for the hard bit... how to transform R&D into $ sales and $ profit

#Research #innovation #Marketing

https://t.co/Ba13XpqXmf

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

2 simple metrics for measuring and benchmarking #innovation #performance:

+R&D-to-product conversion
+new-products-to-margin conversion

As expected, higher #R&D does not necessarily convert into higher margin or sales
#Research #investing
https://t.co/ML87sVN86i

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10 traits of successful innovators. Strategic team composition to minimize innovation failures.
How to evaluate the likelihood of #team to win #innovation game, as #startup or "entra-preneur" #venture.
Ignore a team characteristic at your peril!

https://t.co/9iAp4uCqBF

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Strategy does not means bureaucratic excercise - The Art of the One Page Strategy.
Think, prioritize, communicate & execute

#strategy #leadership #change
https://t.co/bgDNWN7PPi

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Under the bonnet of #Duolingo
There is a lot of #AI under the bonnet to teach 300 m people:
predictive analytics for personalisation
speech to text #NLP /NLG
Deep Neural Networks algos for gamification & personalisation
+ some heavy #AWS #cloud #compute
https://t.co/1SB0xbpiQU

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

How #Wallmart is using #AI and Computer vision to improve shopping experience, availability and profitability

Impressive blend of the old with the new...

#ML #ComputerVision #Retail #Amazon

https://t.co/1AZEoLGttM

[What Do I Know? @Mr_le_singe]

#FinTech market in 1 page, broken down by segments
2600 FinTech #startups with $140B in funding
#Unicorn concentration is not uniform 😄
Nice to see so many European firms in the list

Thanks Venture-Scanner:)
#Stripe #Klarna #Transferwise #Adyen
https://t.co/Pt7TrQOyus