William Vorhies
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Newbury Park, CA, United States
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Past articles by William:
Is AI Getting Boring? And Some Thoughts on the Future of AI.
Summary: Things are getting repetitious and that can be boring. Still, looking at lessons from the 90s it’s clear there are at least one or two decades of im… → Read More
Using an AI COE (Center of Excellence) to Bridge from Experimentation to Mastery
Summary: There is now sufficient experience among mid and large sized companies starting their AI journey to identify a single best practice for moving from A… → Read More
Is BERT Always the Better Cheaper Faster Answer in NLP? Apparently Not.
Summary: Since BERT NLP models were first introduced by Google in 2018 they have become the go-to choice. New evidence however shows that LSTM models may wide… → Read More
The Simple Easy Solution for Eliminating Bias from Models
Summary: This is a discussion of social injustice, real or perceived, promulgated or perpetuated by machine learning models. We propose a simple solution base… → Read More
Data Science Opportunities in the Age of COVID
Summary: The annual Burtch Works salary survey with data through April shows that opportunities and salaries are still excellent for both new and experienced… → Read More
LEEP: Measuring Transferability of Learned Representations
Summary: Transfer Learning (TL) may be the most important aid to adoption of deep learning in the last several years. This new LEEP measure predicts the accu… → Read More
The Census Bureau Says Less Than 9% of US Companies are Using AI! Really?
Summary: Less than 9%? What this study really shows and what we should take away from it. Wow. Less than 9%! Can this be true? Well according to a large… → Read More
China’s Quest for AI Dominance – And How It’s Going
Summary: An update and observations about China’s plan to become the world leader in AI. Whether you get your news from Facebook or from the Wall Street… → Read More
Reinforcement Learning Starts to Deliver on Its Promise
Summary: Advances in very low cost compute and Model Based Reinforcement Learning make this modeling technique that much closer to adoption in the practical w… → Read More
Racial Bias in Modeling – Not as Simple as You Might Think
Summary: Bias in modeling has long been a public concern that is now amplified and focused on the disparate treatment models may cause for African Americans. … → Read More
Targeting Hate Speech
Summary: Objectively identifying hateful or abusive speech on social media platforms would allow those platforms to better control it. However to be objectiv… → Read More
Explaining Data Science to a Non-Data Scientist
Summary: Explaining data science to a non-data scientist isn’t as easy as it sounds. You may know a lot about math, tools, techniques, data, and computer arc… → Read More
Do You Need an AI Product Manager
Summary: What is an AI Product Manager and how do you know when you need one. The role of Product Manager (PM) can mean many things dependent on the specifi… → Read More
KISS – Complex DNN Techniques are Not the Improvements They’re Reported to Be
Summary: In a comprehensive study of 18 recently presented DNN advancements in top-N recommenders, only 7 presented sufficient data to allow reproduction. Wo… → Read More
Will DNNs Ever Really be Explainable?
Summary: As we have become ever more enamored with DNNs, and their accuracy and utility has been paced only by their complexity we will need to answer the ques… → Read More
For Better or Worse Analytics and Data Science are Converging
Summary: Analytic Platforms are rapidly being augmented with features previously reserved for data scientists. They are presented as easy to use but require… → Read More
Time for a Chatbot Tune-Up
Summary: Now that you have a little time for introspection, how about reviewing the performance of your chatbots. Chances are this lock down period has give… → Read More
How COVID-19 is Likely to Change Your AI Strategy
Summary: COVID-19 and the changes it creates in the business environment for the next 12 to 24 months means our current AI strategies need to thoroughly revie… → Read More
Predictability of Life Outcomes
Summary: Whether trying to predict the life outcomes of disadvantaged kids or to model where ventilators will be most needed, a little humility is in order. A… → Read More
Binge Watching “The History of Artificial Intelligence”
Summary: An interesting documentary about the earliest days of AI/ML and my alternate take on how we should really be describing the development of our profes… → Read More