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13 entries- Why after Pouring Millions into Data, Companies Still Make Zero Data-Driven DecisionsAt the decision making table, the data is just something nice that executives feel they need to have but clearly don't know how to use After nearly 10 years working in data analytics, and after spending many millions building and selling Graphext , I’m…3 min
- How to implement churn predictive models that are actually useful and profitable for Revenue Operations teams.Start with Churn Attribution10 min
- 10x engineers in the AI eraIf there is one thing I have learned in my years as an entrepreneur computer scientist, it is that 10x engineers exist and make a difference. People like Jeff Dean, John Carmack, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz and many others can create code that goes much further...6 min
- Why data without profound human interpretation, is meaningless, even in the era of AIData , by nature, is always subjective (Many implicit biases about what is measured and how) and meaningless without human interpretation . I believe there are four significant challenges that AI cannot address (at least for now, maybe never?) without a…3 min
- Predicting the future of a country's economy by the complexity of the products & software it can produce.There's a great indicator for predicting how well a country's economy will develop. It is based on the diversity and originality of the products a country knows how to manufacture and export, which @cesifoti and @ricardo hausman refer to as the Economic…3 min
- Manna: AI serving a dystopian capitalism vs an utopian socialismDuring these holidays, I've read "Manna" (short, 70 pages, you can read it in less than 3 hours, and it's free), a science fiction novel by Marshall Brain from 2003. 20 years later, this book is more relevant than ever because it predicts better than any…2 min
- The best argument against remote work I've come across: a company is a machine for creating knowledge.The best argument against remote work I've come across. A company is a machine for creating knowledge. If the knowledge created from the daily experiences of its employees (talking to customers, researching what competitors do, programming an internal…2 min
- Why women earn less? Why houses are so expensive now but weren't for our parents? ... and more!🌐 Macrofacts / 💵 Economics / 🚻 Gender Gaps 👨👩👦 Parenting Mothers on avg reduce their earnings by 25% or more after 10 years of having a child, while men’s earnings remains pretty much the same. bookmark This fact seems pretty consistent in 2…5 min
- Computer Science or Mathematics? Which degree to study if you want to work in the data worldFrom the bias of a computer scientist who works making a product for companies to analyze their data One of the slides I usually use in our Graphext presentation for investors Following a tweet I wrote the other day, Guillermo publishes...7 min
- III Graphext Bookclub - Deep WorkThis Wednesday in August we had a Book Club again at Graphext, in Campus Madrid. Until now our scientific consigliere, Manuel Cebrián, has been the promoter and master of ceremonies. Thank you Kiko, Nacho, Roberto, Javier and Alejandro for...3 min
- Centralized or Decentralized? Free scale networks!TLDR: I don’t believe blockchain will make markets more significantly decentralized and efficient than they are now It seems to me there is always an ongoing discussion about whether systems should be more or less decentralized. Blockchain is responsible…4 min
- The unpublished golden informationThose who have good information must keep it to themselves and appear biased because they do not want to betray the people who shared it, while those without it are biased by ignorance. The best information is rarely written down or published anywhere.1 min
- Neighbourhood ShopsAntonio runs a household-fabric shop in the centre of Madrid. Almacenes de Aragón has been in his family and on Corredera Baja de San Pablo since the beginning of the last century.3 min
