According to UN estimates, in 30 years, the global population will reach 9.7 billion people. This means there will be a need to provide 50% more food by 2050. Just like centuries ago, the agrarian sector will face a new transformation in the decades to come. With…
Honey is one of the world’s most adulterated or mislabeled foods. Last year, Capilano, Australia’s largest honey producer was accused of selling honey that was a mix of cheaper ingredients like cane sugar, corn, and rice syrups. Occasionally fake honey is even unsafe to eat. In…
The proposed law comes as police departments around the country for their use of facial recognition to identify allegedly violent Black Lives Matter protesters. A bill making its way through the U.S. Senate aims to extend nationwide some of the restrictions on…
If you take a step back, you would see that a huge driver for this is news organizations that favor certain sides of the political spectrum. This in turn is reflected in their reporting. Certain facts may completely be omitted and opinionated…
Introduction During the exploration phase of a project, a data scientist tries to find the optimal pipeline for his specific use case. Since it’s nearly impossible to know beforehand which transformations will benefit the model’s outcome the most, this process usually involves…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the subject of both hype and horror in education. During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, AI in education (AIed) attracted serious investor interest, market speculation, and enthusiastic technofuturist predictions. At the same time, algorithms and statistical models were implicated in several…
One of the purposes of this column is to have you look under the hood of what we’re doing, with our journalism, our efforts to build a sustainable revenue model and the debates we have among editors and reporters. Part of my…
Disinformation campaigns are not new — think of wartime propaganda used to sway public opinion against an enemy. What is new, however, is the use of the internet and social media to spread these campaigns. The spread of disinformation via social media…
The travelling salesman problem You know the Travelling Salesman Problem? Find the shortest route that takes you to every city on a list and returns you home. It’s a hard problem. In fact it’s an NP-hard problem, where NP stands for non-deterministic…
