Ever since Back to the Future, I have fantasized of owning a motorized skateboard. Today is the day! I’ve been eyeing the Boosted Board electric skateboard for a few years now. They only came in a long board format, but earlier this year, they released the Mini and I pulled the trigger last week. Check out the full unboxing video here. Not included in the video are screenshots of the Boosted iphone app below. The […]
I came across IBM Watson’s natural language demo site and played around with it a bit. Watson can be tested by entering any text or url link to get his take on sentiment analysis, emotion, keywords, semantic parsing and more. Here I had Watson analyze the Gettysburg address: NLP is pretty good at sentiment and emotion analysis and is regularly used to monitor a company’s reputation, for example. In legal, we have been using NLP […]
As I’m working through my materials for the MIT AI course, I wanted to share some of the public information I’m using in my studies. image via Adbul Rahid Three short videos of Facebook’s Head of AI Research on deciphering images, deep learning, and convolutional neural networks. These are worthwhile for a quick overview. Also, some of Google’s free online machine learning resources. Lastly, a case study I found interesting about the online clothing company […]
So I didn’t really know what language to learn first, but I came across interesting machine learning use cases that I wanted to focus on. These include supervised learning and unsupervised learning and projects such as a movie recommendation engine, house price prediction, human activity prediction, and credit card fraud detection. These projects are actually all included in a course from Columbia University, but I don’t think I’ll enroll in it. But the brochure indicated […]
Hi! My is Johan and I am starting this blog to chronicle my journey in learning how to code and apply machine learning and AI to the practice of law. I was a practicing attorney for about 8 years at various firms in Philadelphia. My first non-practicing job was a gig as an innovation analyst at a multinational law firm. Since then I’ve been involved in many legal tech and innovation projects. Here’s my LinkedIn […]
the Johan Solo chronicles 