by Dwayne Phillips When do you find time to write? Wrong question, at least the wrong question for me. This past week I was sharing something I was writing with another person. This person told me about how they have wanted for years to write something on a similar topic, but just couldn’t find the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Research'
Time to Write? Wrong Question
September 30th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Adapting · Energy · Research · Time · Writing
No More, “Maybe I Didn’t Remember Correctly”
September 12th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Given histories on the Internet, the good news is that I can find the correct date and event. The bad news is, I no longer have the excuse that, “Maybe I didn’t remember correctly.” That is just lazy. I am making notes of my life for my children and grandchildren. The sort […]
Tags: Accountability · Childhood · Error · Event · Excuses · History · Internet · Research · Work
It’s Easier Than Ever to Know a Little
December 18th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There is so much information available to us, what do we do? Wait, there are also so many great summaries of information available to us. It is easier than ever to know a little. Is that a good thing? It is easier than ever to know a little: It is still just […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Expertise · Knowledge · Learning · Research · Wikipedia · Writing
We Don’t Have to Write It All
January 9th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips If AI wrote this, is that okay? The question isn’t that difficult. In the past few months, we have all sorts of artificial intelligence or machine learning sites “writing” things for us. Well, this isn’t that intelligent or learned (in my humble opinion), but clever mimicry. Still it is quite useful. Why […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Concepts · Ideas · Information · Intellectual Property · Research · Work · Writing
Organized Disorganization
January 31st, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we “know where everything is” despite outward appearances. Sometimes we have “a place for everything and everything in its place.” Sometimes both ideas work. Sometimes neither work. Data is everywhere. Data is the new oil or bacon or pizza or something good or bad. The trouble with data is if I […]
Tags: Analysis · Data Science · Information · Knowledge · Research · Technology
Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence
August 9th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We used to discuss this topic, but with different choices. Time passes. People discuss this on the Internet. Today’s question is “R or Python?” Good grief, two interpreted languages that run slow. But they are good for prototyping things, bringing in mammoth libraries, and writing useful things in ten lines of code. […]
Tags: Choose · Data Science · General Systems Thinking · Programming · Research · Thinking
Researchers and Paying for Research
February 8th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Research is expensive. Someone pays the bills. Sorry about the lesson in economics. The future of companies is often in the research they perform in the back rooms. Not glamorous, but often necessary. And those smart folks in the back rooms cost lots of money. The company has to be making enough […]
Tags: Economics · Research · Technical Debt · Technology
A Successful Experiment
October 28th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Good tests and experiments provide useful information. Sometimes the information isn’t what we want to hear, but we need to keep the two separate. In France recently, tests were performed to learn if roadways could generate electrical energy from the sun. They learned that roadways were not a good place for solar […]
Tags: Experiment · Information · Research · Science · Testing
Of Course I Write about What I Know
April 19th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Part 1 of 2 blogs on writing about…of course I write about what I know. That is what is in my head. One write adage is, “Write about what you know.” Of course. This is a no brainer, right? What else would I write about. Let’s see, nuclear physics. That is something […]
Writing and Googling
March 30th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Writers (and everyone else): use the research resources that are available. And extend them. Mark this one under the non-existent tag of #a-writing-basic-that-I-feel-compelled-to-write-about-just-for-the-record or something like that. Writers: Google stuff before you write. Google stuff while you are writing. Google stuff after you have finished writing. This is not a paid commercial […]