Artificial Intelligence : what everyone can agree on
Artificial Intelligence is a divisive subject that sparks numerous debates about both its potential and its limitations. However, there's one aspect everyone can agree on: current commercial practices demonstrate that the sector is still far from maturity.
Evaluation of Sports Performance: Cognitive Biases, Vectors and Visualization Challenges
Evaluation of human performance is notoriously difficult, even for an expert eye. The difficulty primarily lies in consistency of evaluations across subjects and over time. And, for all satisfactory solutions, a key challenge is then to communicate the output without losing valuable information.
What Tech tells us about corporate culture
Tech culture is an object of fascination to the public, even though there is little evidence that high-profile Tech companies share a homogeneous set of values. In reality, there is more to learn about culture and ingredients of success of an organization from the science underpinning technology, than from trying to pin down what Tech culture is.
Speculation was never NFTs' Achilles heel
As utility of a token is not set in stone, defining “speculation” on NFTs is challenging, let alone regulating it. Regulators can nonetheless make sure end-users do not lose money for the wrong reasons
Diamonds, Water and… NFTs: into the Nature and Causes of Decentralized Wealth
250 years after the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of the Nations, the emergence of completely free markets of digital assets can shed a new light on economic theories. Can Economics really provide a useful framework to understand the evolutions of these embryonic markets?
Capturing marginal return from unsuspected liquidity
The Finance industry is one of the most advanced in the use of data. Yet, there are untapped opportunities, in particular by identifying liquidity in the least liquid markets. A quick introduction to the little-known niche of secondary transactions on Private Equity portfolios.
Archive Forests
The ever-increasing production of information poses two problems: a physical physical one, as storage capacity does not increases as fast as production, and an environmental one, since this industry is very energy-intensive. What if data could be stored in a truly durable way? The case for data storage in DNA.
Digital Settlers
Here has come the age of “digital natives”, a generation born with the Internet. Their representation of the world, their perception of time and space, of what's real and what's virtual is “intrinsically” different from that of the previous generation who are only becoming aware of the virtues and limits of the "Google" effect.