Thought Leaders
Choosing Medical Annotation Partners with Clinical Expertise for Image and Video Data
The spotlight in building medical artificial intelligence systems is shifting away from algorithms and training data. The real differentiator is no longer the algorithm but the quality of the annotated data behind it. It’s just as important to consider who is labeling the data as it is to consider the data itself. High-quality training data from clinical experts is a true differentiator in tasks such as tumor vs. fracture detection, organ segmentation, and even surgical workflow.
By Rohan Agrawal5 months ago in Interview
Golda Vynogradska on Maidan, War, and Fashion as Ukrainian Cultural Diplomacy
Golda Vynogradska is a Ukrainian fashion designer, founder and project manager of FashionGlobusUkraine, head of the National Sectoral Partnership in the Light Industry of Ukraine, vice president of the Confederation of Designers and Stylists of Ukraine, and a postgraduate researcher at the Institute of Vocational Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. Her work spans design, industry development, education, cultural diplomacy, public advocacy, and international representation for Ukrainian fashion and light industry sectors.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Interview
Inside Italy's Fashion Reshuffle: New Vadimar's Marco Vacalebre Explains to Affari Italiani Why -1.6% Is the Wrong Metric
The numbers tell one story. The operators tell another. Italy's fashion exports closed 2025 at €36.9 billion, down 1.6% versus the previous year — a figure that, in isolation, fits neatly into the broader narrative of European manufacturing decline. But a recent in-depth interview published by Affari Italiani, one of Italy's most-read business publications, suggests the headline is masking a far more interesting movement underneath: a forced sorting of the Italian textile ecosystem into operators who can run multi-jurisdictional supply chains and operators who cannot.
By 4FEATURE.COM5 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 47: Are Black Holes Singularities or Collapsed Matter?
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine whether black holes are true singularities or ultra-compressed structures retaining geometry. They discuss informational cosmology, baby universes, neutron stars, Hawking radiation, observational limits, and why theory may advance understanding faster than direct detection. Rosner also connects physics to geography, game-show controversies, Shavuot pronunciation, and a future conversation about paint-by-numbers, keeping the exchange speculative, skeptical, and conversational rather than presenting it as peer-reviewed science.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Interview
Shreshtha Das on Online Hate Against Racialized Migrant Women and 2SLGBTQI+ People in Canada
Shreshtha Das is a Researcher/Advisor on Gender with Amnesty International, focusing on gender, racial justice, refugees, and migrants’ rights. In this interview, they discuss Amnesty International’s research on xenophobic technology-facilitated gender-based violence against racialized migrant women and 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada. Das analyzes online hate narratives, “great replacement” conspiracies, platform dynamics, anonymity, dehumanization, self-censorship, and the links between digital abuse, public participation, and offline safety.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Interview
Mariia Shakula on Ukrainian Identity in Berlin
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Mariia Shakula (Translator, English-Ukrainian) Mariia Shakula is a Ukrainian-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist and integration consultant for Otivas. She relocated to Germany following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Her creative work spans photography, graphic design, music. Alongside her artistic practice, she contributes to a coaching and consulting initiative supporting Ukrainian newcomers navigating German bureaucracy, employment, and cultural adaptation, drawing on her own lived experience of migration.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Interview
Why Most Business Partnerships Fail - Interview with Kyle Kane from OnSpark
The partnership looked perfect on paper. Aligned industries. Complementary skills. Shared ambitions. Within eighteen months, it had dissolved into silence, recrimination, and a legal dispute neither party anticipated.
By Laurens Tijssen6 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 46: Something Rather Than Nothing, or Simulation, Skepticism, and Existence
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine whether skepticism about perception - demon deception, hallucination, Matrix-style simulation - can undermine existence itself. Jacobsen argues that true or false impressions still presuppose occurrence: appearance is not nothing. Rosner extends the discussion through simulation, coherence, probability, and the universe scale. Together, they frame “somethingness” as the minimal existential floor beneath realism, illusion, skepticism, and scientific inquiry. It also links logic, identity, and non-contradiction to the possibility of argument itself.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen6 months ago in Interview
"There's a Higher Law That Calls Me"
Today, I sat down for an interview with an absolutely amazing Georgian woman, a protester who is proudly and loudly coming out to the streets every day after the rigged October 26, 2024 Parliamentary Elections. This is just a quick record of the most significant insights from the interview.
By Lana V Lynx6 months ago in Interview
Why Your Team Can't Tell the Same Story About Your Business (and What It's Costing You)
Here's something that happens in almost every audit I do: I ask the founder, the salesperson, and the marketing lead to each describe what the business does in one sentence. By the time I've heard all three, I've got three different companies.
By Kloss Creatives PR6 months ago in Interview
