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How Humans and Everyday Tech Can Outmatch AI

YoungUpstarts

There’s an increasing awareness that machine-learning algorithms encode biases and discrimination into outcomes. After all, algorithms simply look for patterns in the data. Whatever is embedded in the data is what the algorithms will repeat. Algorithmic problem-solving is also severely hampered by the quality of data it’s fed.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

I will always remember fondly my coffee meeting 5 years ago with my friend Sam Rosen in New York City shortly after Hurricane Sandy. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm. were more distributed.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

government boasts more than 200,000 public datasets hosted through data.gov, divided among numerous lists and segmented into categories such as: Information on 173 million taxi rides in New York City. In 11 weeks, the team used an algorithm to match data points with specific users at a 95% accuracy rate. Mexican birth records.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and the. Castle Surgical ‘s ( www.castlesurgical.com , New York, NY) patent-pending surgical devices enable surgeons to easily perform partial kidney and partial liver surgery. New York, NY. National Association of Investment Companies.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and the. Castle Surgical ‘s ( www.castlesurgical.com , New York, NY) patent-pending surgical devices enable surgeons to easily perform partial kidney and partial liver surgery. New York, NY. National Association of Investment Companies.

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Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab

David Teten

On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab ‘s Inaugural Investor Day. The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with support from the New York banking community.