Sep 16, 2021Castles vs. Coalitions: How militaries protect their estates from supply chain cyber attacksThere has been a string of front page supply chain cyber attacks infiltrating what we thought were some of the most secure cyber-estates in the world. A supply chain attack is where hackers attack a target indirectly through a supplier. For example, rather than trying to hack NATO directly (very…7 min read
Mar 25, 2021Your algorithm is a racist, sexist law suit waiting to happen and how to fix itRecent news has not been kind to the algorithmic industrial complex. Some of our finest names have suffered embarrassment and regulatory action. Here is one headline no one wants to see. Late in October, a study in Science flagged the fact that UnitedHealth’s platform Optum was providing less care to…7 min read
Sep 19, 2019The Alpha in AI Safety for Quant Trading: Unleash Your BeastsAugust is a quiet month for equities… unless you were at Knight Capital on August 1st, 2012. After an engineer failed to properly update one out of eight servers an improperly deployed algorithm executed over 4 million trades in 154 stocks losing the firm $460 million before an additional regulatory…Trading3 min read
Sep 19, 2019AI Safety for Banks: Turn Algorithm Problems into Profits & PromotionsIf you Google “Amazon sexist hiring algorithm” you will get 527,000 hits. Reporting by Reuters went viral last year that Amazon used an algorithm between 2014 & 2017 that unintentionally disadvantaged women and it is a case study in the dangers of un-safe AI. The Amazon data science team, being…Artificial Intelligence4 min read
Published in The Startup·Sep 17, 2019Mass-Murdering Monks & Mass Shootings — AI as a cost-effective way to reduce terrorismOn March 20, 1995, Aum Shinrikyō released sarin gas into two crowded trains in the Tokyo subway system. The sarin, ten times deadlier than cyanide, killed 12 and crippled or injured thousands. …ISIS8 min read
May 5, 2017People vs. Code: Who ends up in the hospital? An NHS Case Study in How Software Gets Blamed For EverythingPeople talk a lot about digital transformation. I talk a lot about digital transformation because I am in tech sales and those are words we tech sales people say these days. Here are a few of IT sales’ favorite words by year, perhaps you’ve heard them a million times: digital…Health Technology6 min read
Apr 11, 2017Humour: A Matter of National Import — Who is in charge of the reptile exhibits at the ZSL?Honestly, who is in charge of this famous London Zoo’s exhibits? Is it Banksy? Camus? Russian hackers? Take this educational avant garde near the entrance to start. Part zoological study, part existentialist suicide note. A Zoological Study/Existentialist Suicide Note Can you find the snake? It lays listless right below the…Humor4 min read
Apr 11, 2017Humour: A lot has changed in my life, I’m a Mac user now.Who’d have thought a year ago so much would change in my life. I am of course referring not to changing continents or industries, but to my new MacBook Pro. Of the many wonderful features it provides, my favourite is the sense of moral superiority. Where I used to idly…Apple2 min read
Feb 14, 2017I am not a Player: 4 Hacks to Win the Love Game“What was that movie with the hipsters we saw?” my dad asks across a beaten up table and two plates of ugly eggs to his beaten-up-looking son. It’s 7am on a Saturday at a dive bar in Seattle. …Dating7 min read
