Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Some people work on big data. The rest of us find value by working on data that is bigger than we can understand without some hand-crafted tools. For about two years I worked on a BIG DATA project. Well, that is how it was touted. BIG DATA was a cool name that […]

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by Dwayne Phillips What type of person are you trying to hire? The questions you ask answer this question. Please listen to yourself. Do you want a scientist or a technician or a clerk? Technicians and clerks are easy to find. Ask what tools they’ve used. Finding a scientist or analyst or other thinker … […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Ah, my car will drive itself. I can rest, read, think about things. Really? Perhaps we aren’t comfortable with the answer to the question posed in the title. Who will really benefit from self-driving vehicles? Alcohol, canabis, and pharmaceutical industries. This includes restaurants and bars that serve these. The vehicle itself is […]

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by Dwayne Phillips An age-old question that won’t seem to go away. Odd how things come around. I keep a file with ideas for blog posts. I jotted some notes for this post about six months ago. I was perusing that file and noticed this. While the context of that note jotting months ago was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Not sure where to put these words? What is the right place? The right time? I have this idea. I know the right concept. I have a document in the works. Let’s see. Where does this go? When does it go in the time? How about, I don’t know. Let me think… […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Similar to the signal-to-noise ratio is the knowledge-to-opinion ratio. Watch for it. sig·nal-to-noise ra·tio noun the ratio of the strength of an electrical or other signal carrying information to that of interference, generally expressed in decibels. The signal-to-noise ratio used to be important to most of us. While riding in a car, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips This is urgent. Is it? adjective: urgent (of a state or situation) requiring immediate action or attention. Immediate attention. Do it right now! That is a relative statement. Someone else tells me, “Do it before doing these other things on this list that someone has created. I deem this more important than […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we do things backwards and expect everyone else to know. Here in the year of the virus, I sit outside a nationally recognized chain of coffee shops (whose name begins with an “S”) viewing the Internet and occasionally writing blog posts….(is that a long-enough opening sentence?)… But anyways, in the year […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I am a person working technology. That is my identity. Oh wait, maybe not. Yikes. Am I involved in management? Probably. DevSecOps is the current buzzword among those of us who write computer programs. It is an abbreviation for combing development, security, and operations. It is all sorts of technical things that […]

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