Sentiment in the world of financial and corporate speech is a unique beast; while the straightforward rules of language can often net a reasonable looking result, the nuance of the industry might be disappointed. A simple yet illustrative example: We laid off 15% of retail personnel in Q1, which is…

It is about this time each year that I like to take a moment to reflect on the prior twelve months in technology and machine learning; and, of course, to make some semi-educated prognostications about the forthcoming twelve months. …

Aiera hired it’s first employee in the early summer of 2018, and then took on another two just a month later. Of those first three employees, two lived in or near Boston and one lived in New York. …

Aiera (pronounced “era”), an adaptive deep learning platform designed to enhance active fundamental investment strategies, announced today a $3.5 million seed funding round led by Boston-based Flybridge Capital Partners. …

A little over eighteen months ago, I undertook an academic exercise to see if I could use deep online learning and state-of-the-art NLU to monitor the universe of public information and then use it to predict stock market movement; then, more interestingly, leverage that collected data to automatically generate human-ready…

It might not seem so, but, believe it or not, there is more to life than just deep learning. There is, in fact, a whole universe of machine learning, from probabilistic methods (Bayesian networks, Markov chains) to deterministic modeling (logistic regression, support vector machines) to ensemble learning (random forests, stacking)…

As we prepare to March for Science, as citizens, it is essential that we see strong and unified support from our leaders in government; we must stand for the scientific, technological, and academic institutions that create and drive our economy, create the tools of our security, have been the source…

There is an ongoing, highly visible shortfall in quality technologists; unemployment in technology remains at staggering lows all across the country (just 2.7% as of Q1 2014), and can be downright comical in certain categories (such as the 1.1% for network architects). Companies in notable innovation hot-spots are enduring great…

Advancements in artificial intelligence have set the world on fire. Our homes and pockets now contain voice-enabled intelligent assistants that are ready to answer any question, play music, coordinate our schedule, balance our budget, call us a taxi, replenish the pantry, and so much more. Our cars are now able…