There’s a joke that I love: There are two types of people in the world Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. It’s funny! But it also hits a little close to home. I am of course referring to the data being used in the training of Machine Learning (ML) models and how it’s not always what it should be. According to Statista , the global volume of data created, copied, captured and consumed is more than 150 ZETTABYTES, with 90% of this data from the last few years! To

It’s a general rule that you don’t name the animals that’ll later end up being dinner. This may not be a huge issue in suburbs but the homes keeping sheep or cows or chickens, you can see where we'd run into this. Why shouldn’t we name them? Because once it’s been named it’s a pet or adopted family member and no harm can come to it without many tears from the small children that have fallen in love with it. It’s the same with our children’s toys; once named the toy is forever

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