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The best place to grow a startup? Try the Nordics
Hunting for a unicorn? You might actually do better among the fjords of Scandinavia than the deserts of Silicon Valley. For the past eight years, there has been at least one billion-dollar exit from [...]
Read moreHow to punch above your weight – Iceland-style
Few things bring people together like an underdog story. Amid the glittering stars, the controversial refereeing decisions, and the fierce, country-sized emotions of the first week of the 2018 FIFA [...]
Read moreGDPR: time to think again about how you deal with data
The last time data protection laws changed significantly in Europe, Nokia had only just introduced the cutting-edge technology of text messages. That was as smart as a phone could be. Google wouldn’t [...]
Read more6 (not 5) blogs we think you should be reading
At Ocean.io we don’t just love writing blogs, we love reading them too. (Big surprise, I know.) Here are the 6 (not 5) blogs that we keep coming back to for sage guidance and witty advice.But when I [...]
Read moreHow to stop being a perfectionist…
“Don’t say you’re a perfectionist” is a pretty common piece of interview advice – because it’s a cliché and nobody believes it. But what if it’s actually a bad trait?At a certain point, perfectionism [...]
Read moreWill “the robots” really take our jobs?
You might have noticed that digital technology is causing quite a stir. Whether you’re still in employment, or if “the robots” have already taken your job, you’ll no doubt be curious to know where [...]
Read moreHow do Siri and Alexa understand you?
Halyna Oliinyk, Ocean’s Junior Machine Learning Developer, explains natural language processing.Intelligent personal assistants like Alexa, Siri and Cortana can feel like a godsend, ordering [...]
Read moreThe funniest email autoreplies
How many times have you received an autoreply from someone that used last year’s dates because they hadn’t taken the time to double check it? It’s only a small thing but it’s nice to do it right. [...]
Read moreHow big data is changing the world
We hear a lot about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are going to change the world; how 3D printing will revolutionize health and manufacturing; how the Internet of Things will make [...]
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