My learning journey: AI & DS – Cyber Tales – Medium

The first thought is about open sourcing technologies. I have already written on this trend, which is quite unusual at a first look if you think about it, but my thinking around open source has been highly stimulated by the talk given by Wes McKinney -- for who doesn't know who he is, well, he is definitely not a random guy but is THE open source guy (creator of pandas and author of Python for Data Analysis). The open source model is quite hard to be reconciled with the traditional SaaS model, especially in the financial sector. However, we are observing many firms providing cutting-edge technologies and algorithms for free. While in some cases there is a specific business motivation behind it (e.g., Google releasing Tensorflow to avoid conflict of interests with their cloud offering), the decision of open sourcing (part of) the technology actually represents an emerging trend.