Open Future Blog by Syone

As a company, we believe in empowering people to deliver excellence in everything they do! This means we also have the responsibility, as a company, of creating the moments in which we look beyond our daily tasks and, together, fulfil a role that we see as fundamental:

Help shape and improve the community where we include ourselves,
both locally and globally!

What's Syone's role in the Community?

Syone acts on being responsible towards the community by taking daily actions that lead to stimulating cooperation and valuing difference, the pillars of a more inclusive society. It’s very important that our values reflect the ethical conduct by which we are guided, make decisions and act.

In every organisation, one of the most difficult things to manage is the approach made towards new techniques, methodologies and processes.

Let’s start by explaining what soft skills actually are:

Soft Skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character or personality traits, attitudes, among others, that enable people to work well together, have a good performance, and achieve their goals by adding some extra "points" and complementing their hard skills.

Soft skills characterise how people interact with each other.

Soft skills include (among others)

Hello! Before we get to the Machine Learning topic, we need to talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence.

Why?

AI is the top layer of this whole process, while Machine Learning is a subset of it, and Deep Learning is a subset of ML (we are going to cover Deep Learning in another blog post soon, don’t worry).

One of the big discussion points during the last few years was Gender Equality. Melinda Gates’ Equality Can’t Wait website state that “At the rate we’re going, it will take 208 years to achieve gender equality in the U.S.”. In Portugal, as far as we know, we don’t have those numbers, but our feeling is that it shouldn’t be that far…