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A couple of months ago, I decided to take a hiatus from Tumblr as I continue focusing my time on long-form writing. I may decide to revive my Tumblr page in the future. In the meantime, please follow me on Twitter and Medium, and follow Spark on Medium. P.S. For what I’ve been up to lately, check out my recently published piece in TechCrunch: How startups can compete with enterprises in artificial intelligence and machine learning. There has recently been an explosion of cynicism in the Twitterverse (and generally in the tech community) about machine learning and AI. This was taken up a notch after Facebook’s F8 conference earlier this week and the splashy launch of their bot platform on Messenger. I understand the cynicism. When you dig in, many of the companies claiming to be leveraging machine learning are doing nothing of the sort. It’s easy to find companies that are building weak ML-driven user experiences, turning off early adopters. Others are building products centered around

Jul 18 2016 Hiatus A couple of months ago, I decided to take a hiatus from Tumblr as I continue focusing my time on long-form writing. I may decide to revive my Tumblr page in the future. In the meantime, please follow me on Twitter and Medium , and follow Spark on Medium . P.S. For what I've been up to lately, check out my recently published piece in TechCrunch: How startups can compete with enterprises in artificial intelligence and machine learning .

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