The Best Way to Spend the Pandemic: Learn a New Skill! I’ve seen (and heard) a great many people commiserating about being bored-at-home during the COVID-19 quarantines currently taking place across the nation, across the world. We don’t know how long it will take, exactly, but we do know it will be several weeks, at […]
Secure, encrypted bi-directional communication anywhere! Communications between a central repository and a remote client present a wide variety of security issues. Sending data “over the wire” is in-and-of-itself a precarious notion, given that the data must be exchanged between many processes, routers, gateways, firewalls and so on in order to reach its final destination. […]
Some years ago, I was asked to create a user-friendly application that would allow both psychiatrists as well as psychiatric facilities to track the treatment and medications prescribed to patients. I came up with the concept of a Psychiatric Annotation Manager (PAM) that would allow doctors to easily track information about their patients, as […]
By far the most dangerous threat to human existence is humans themselves. You can talk all you want about nature or technology — in this case, AI, but our worst enemy is our own collective mind. First off, a fair disclaimer: I am speculating about this just as much as the people I’m about to […]
Keeping up on all the advances in AI really requires its own AI. As it turns out, AI is being used to locate alien life. I, for one, would like to extend a hearty welcome to our new overlords in advance. Seriously though, I believe this is a great example (and a great use […]
Orchestrating supply chain management via ML/PA is something Capture Club understands quite well. In 2001, we were involved with a bleeding-edge effort to automate Trading Partner and Trading Agreement negotiations. We utilized both Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics to create a system wherein you could define the parameters of your company and it’s trading partner/agreement […]
A colleague of mine in the railroad industry recently shared this article with me. As I was reading through, I came across this paragraph: “As a result of CSXT interline intermodal service changes, Union Pacific is no longer able to offer a number of interline intermodal services to the eastern U.S. Due to the complexity […]
I came across an interesting article concerning the (quantum) problem at the core of modern Artificial Intelligence: Cause and Effect. Quantum weirdness in ‘chicken or egg’ paradox The “chicken or egg” paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of determining cause-and-effect. Now, a team of physicists from The University […]
I talk to people about Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics everyday. During the course of that conversation, the topic of Amazon’s Amazing Recommendations generally comes up as an example of the Gold Standard of recommendation engines. But you know what? I really don’t think so. As I was browsing around Amazon the other day, […]
As I was working through an issue the other day, at one point I wanted to see what was loaded in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). To make matters a bit more tricky, I had to accomplish this using Nashorn JavaScript. So after a bit of poking around, I found this in Java: import […]