Tag: Technology

Corsair Keyboard Restoration

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine was asking about which was the best gaming keyboard to buy as theirs was “broken”. I knew that they had a pretty decent Corsair gaming keyboard and that they hadn’t had it all that long (maybe less than a year). The scientist in me immediately asked “In what way is it broken?”.

“The keys are sticking and often don’t register. I’m going to throw it away.”

Always one unable to resist a challenge and prevent something ending up in landfill if I can help, I offered to take a look to see if I could fix it. I wasn’t surprised at the state of it when it arrived. My friend often ends up eating and drinking at their desk during both work and gaming, and most people don’t clean their tech regularly, if at all.

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Starting your first AI project – a guide for businesses

I’ve been speaking at several events recently giving practical advice on getting started with AI projects.  There is a huge chasm between high level inspirational business pieces on all the usual sites1 that business leaders read and the “getting started in AI” guides that pretty much start with installing Tensorflow.  There was nothing aimed at the non-AI CTO who didn’t want to fall behind.  Nothing to indicate to them how to start a project, what talent they’d need or even which problems to start with.  Sure, there are a lot of expensive consulting companies out there, but this knowledge shouldn’t be hidden.

This time last year, I sat down with David Kelnar of MMC Ventures and we talked about why so many AI projects don’t succeed.  He asked me to contribute some ideas to be included in the new State of AI report for 2019, to which I gladly agreed.  It soon became clear that to do this justice, it was more than just a chapter, and the MMC AI Playbook was born, which we recently launched.  Contributing to this amazing publication took a lot of time and research, and this blog was the thing that had to give.

If you are trying to find the right time to start your first project and need help on where to begin, please take a look at the playbook.  Here’s a taster, based on talks I gave at Austin Fraser’s #LeadersInTech event and the Barclays AI Frenzy event both in July 2019.

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