Mikko Kotila

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Essays, notes, quotes and photographs: on machine intelligence, on the machinery of the internet and its money, on how research gets done, and on life as practice. 536 pieces, 2013 to 2025.

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Machine intelligence2019

Thou Shalt Not Fear Automatons

In this article, I will show that unlike the pundits would like you to think, it’s our ignorance we should fear, not the intelligence of machines.

First published in Medium · Towards Data Science · 16 min read

  1. Reminiscences of an Adtech Operator Advertising · 2016 · 13 min
  2. Eight Ad Fraud Predictions Nobody in Adtech Wants to Make — part 1 Ad fraud · 2016 · 8 min
  3. Hyperparameter Optimization with Keras Machine intelligence · 2018 · 16 min
  4. Thinking about Ideas as a System: Evaluation of Ideas Research and development · 2022 · 6 min
  5. An autopsy of a data scientist Data science · 2014 · 12 min

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  2. Adverse Events Are Invitations for Process Improvement · 2 min
  3. A reading list of short essays covering what I learned running software projects for three decades · 2 min
  4. Eat what you like to eat diet · 2 min
  5. Some important differences between the meaning of wisdom in East and West · 5 min
  6. Do you believe your thoughts? · 2 min