by Jordi Cabot | Mar 30, 2020 | Opinion, General
The current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is collapsing hospitals all around the world. But it’s also collapsing all kinds of emergency response support systems. Emergency phone numbers have easily tripled the number of calls they get these days. Many of them...
by Jordi Cabot | Feb 2, 2020 | Opinion, General
The Pareto Principle, also known as 80/20 rule, is one of the most universal principles that exist. You can find in many aspects of your personal, social and working life. In its simplest formulation, the Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of...
by xatkit | Nov 27, 2019 | Opinion, General
Human-bot interactions are more successful when bots are able to hide they are bots. There are many aspects that can help a bot look more like a human (beyond, passing the Turing test 🙂 ). Obviously, the first one is making sure that the bot (and the NLU engine behind...
by xatkit | Nov 4, 2019 | Opinion, Examples, General
We are flooded with open data and bombarded with constant news of new open data initiatives by all kinds of local, regional and national organizations. As an example, see the open data portal of the city of Barcelona, the Catalan catalogue or the Spanish one. To give...