There are common assumptions about ethics for scientists: that bioscientists, working on even harmless virus, will put an effort of containing the virus, even if it’s as benign as forcing people to sneeze at 8 a.m. will think about consequences of the action releasing such virus into the public: all…

For data scientists and engineers, soft skills for the modern world are not the old Trivium — rhetoric, logic, and grammar. My view on the set of skills that allow you to navigate complexity in the modern world, common for engineers, architects and data scientists: Systems Engineering (Thinking) — the…

I see metacortex engineering combination of approaches AI, ethics, systems and enterprise engineering. When everyone got excited about Meta and Metaverse, I thought two things: 1. We are behind in our exploitation of VR and AR, and we could build VR based interfaces for analysts and data scientists, turning them…

Science is way more important than Data The common perception of data science work you need a lot of data, then you formulate a hypothesis, run EDA etc. Let me quote the simplest book on a topic: “Frantically, she tried to cast back for anything she’d read about what scientists…

pre-requisite for running the benchmark: Assuming you are running Debian or ubuntu, have docker and docker-compose (or can create virtual environment via conda): git clone -b benchmark — recurse-submodules git@github.com:applied-knowledge-systems/the-pattern.git cd the-pattern ./bootstrap_benchmark.sh It should end with curl call to qasearch API, redis caching is disabled for benchmark, it’s a…

Knowledge Graphs: Ontology in plain English (translation from Russian Telegram post by Prapion Medvedeva) When building complex information systems or walking through life in general, we constantly assign types to everything we or others talk about. A high-level ontology defines the types of entities. Suppose we assign an entity to…

You got probability and likelihood calculation wrong; this is why you can’t build a proper recommender. I finally finished reading long overdue essay (300 лет в искаженной реальности) in Russian, which is referencing Nature publication “The ergodicity problem in economics” and “Time to move beyond average thinking”. Those pieces are…