Chris AckersonBe Wary of Algorithms Purporting to be PlatformsIn 2015 IBM announced that “100 of its Watson partners have now introduced cognitive enabled apps, products and services into the market.”…3 min read·Apr 1, 2021----
Chris AckersonCode Current: Watson Developer Cloud — App Development in the Cognitive EraOver the weekend, I came across the video for a class I taught almost a year ago on Cognitive Computing. Wow time flies..4 min read·Mar 20, 2017----
Chris AckersonTwilio and WatsonBack in May, my colleague Alisha Lehr and I had the opportunity to speak at Twilio’s Signal developer conference where we launched and…1 min read·Aug 3, 2016----
Chris AckersonDeveloping with IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank: Part 3 Custom FeaturesAs discussed in Part 1 and Part 2, the IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank service enables developers to configure a solr search cluster on IBM…10 min read·Apr 6, 2016--5--5
Chris AckersonUseful LinksI’ll maintain this article for useful links to Watson (and other relevant ML) resources.1 min read·Mar 30, 2016----
Chris AckersonVirtual Agent Lab with WatsonI recently put together a lab to help developers understand how to integrate the Natural Language Classifier, Retrieve and Rank, and Dialog…5 min read·Mar 21, 2016----
Chris AckersonDeveloping with IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank: Part 2 Training and EvaluationIn Part 1 we stood up a Retrieve and Rank cluster on Bluemix and configured solr. In Part 2 we will build our ground truth and train and…6 min read·Mar 21, 2016--1--1
Chris AckersonDeveloping with IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank: Part 1 Solr ConfigurationWhat is Retrieve and Rank6 min read·Mar 17, 2016--4--4
