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Parsey McParseface is built on powerful machine learning algorithms that learn to analyse the linguistic structure of language, and that can explain the functional role of each word in a given sentence.  Last month, Google released all the code needed to train new models on your own data, freely available to developers and researchers interested in automatic extraction of information, translation, and other core applications of NLU.

There is a lot to like about the experience of banking in branch.  In contrast, a bank’s digital experiences, delivered as apps and websites, are rarely as user friendly… ‘Conversational Banking’ digitises this experience within a messaging user interface. You only get information you asked for and that is relevant to you at the time. Want to check the balance in your checking account? Message your bank and ask.

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Messaging is the only interface in which the machine communicates with you much the same as the way you communicate with it.  A shift to conversational-based UI’s and implicit hyperlinks would make computer interaction far more fluid and natural…For all those times you’ve thought “thank god I don’t need to download another f—— app for this.”

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“While we did have an upper limit of how much time we want to spend on the design, the more valuable measurement was time-bounding our efforts to get a specific signal.. Remember, we were working through incremental steps. We would sprint towards the next launch and once we had A/B test results from that launch, they’d give us signal on what to do next.

 

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Netflix and chills just got better with Deliveroo; bringing food that you love to your door…  One lesson in scaling quickly, Deliveroo as a free growth marketing engine.

Remember in phasing a project that it’s not just the abstract priority of the functionality, but how early you need to see if it fails.
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But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
- Bill Bryson

NYC open data

As Gov 2.0 goes local, New York City has become the epicenter for many experiments in governance, from citizensourcing smarter government to participatory budgeting to embracing a broader future as a data platform.  New York wants to become a digital city.  Explore how data and open government are transforming NYC.

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