As a senior computer scientist, I often get asked: “How do I master CS including AI?” Our company does a lot of solutions and advisory work, around implementing ML/AI/DI in production, decision design, training,...
What does software do for us? Roughly speaking, it fits into two categories: The software industry is pretty good at #1: to build good “doing” software, it’s helpful to think about how people do...
Social media bombards us with big lies. The juicier and click-baitier, the better, and the happier are advertisers. Unfortunately, disinformation is often plausible as well as attractive. By promising to right an imaginary or...
Have you ever wondered just how many decisions you will make today? In your lifetime? Though difficult to measure, researchers have estimated that the average adult makes anywhere from a few thousand to 35,000...
Right now, getting vaccines “into arms” is the world’s greatest pandemic focus. But everything could change. Says Andy Slavitt, “The headlines we see today…[describe a] massive over-demand and under-supply [of the COVID19 vaccine]…it could...
I caught COVID19 in March, a few weeks after breaking my arm badly enough to need surgery. I made it through, but along the way, and with the perspective afforded by a lot of...
Lately, I’m surrounded by dogs: mostly service dogs, who are able to learn sophisticated behaviors and help their handlers in miraculous ways. And so I’ve been reading a bit of dog training theory. Surprisingly,...
In the swirl of events, I’m often left wondering if there’s something deeper going on. Our leaders seem to be increasingly missing the bigger picture. A glimpse, here and there, into the underlying cause...
Are we getting dumber? Or is stuff just harder? Both are true. Between-silo problems are the new bottleneck. We’re inundated with information, so we take cognitive short cuts. And “wicked” problems keep getting...
What does cold dead fish have to do with random forests? If you were to open a restaurant that served cold dead fish, you would not stay open for very long. However, if you...
