Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Some of life’s more complicated moral issues are fairly simple when we use words per their meanings. Want to stop abuse at fill-in-the-blank? Don’t bring in abusive persons, i.e., abusers. Want to stop lying? Don’t bring in lying persons, i.e., liars. Funny how the English language works and answers our own questions.

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by Dwayne Phillips We are here, we want to be there. The words we use to describe these places has much to do with the journey. We have a massive project. I have to write just ten lines of Python code. It’s the same. We start at one point and want to reach another point. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes it is as simple as one word instead of another that can change everything. Do we manage or cultivate? Do we transfer or transplant? Do we tell or till? We could go on. Is the workplace a machine or a garden? Are our colleagues living, breathing humans or interchangeable cogs? Persons […]

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by Dwayne Phillips It is just a “figure of speech,” but perhaps we would understand better if we used the correct words in the field of artificial intelligence. Here is yet another article about “building” a neural network. It is a good article that explain neural networks well. It shows some sample source code to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We often use words that were used in a different time. If we understand that use, we can better understand what we are trying to do now, at this time. I overheard some ladies talking about arranging meals for groups of persons at charity fund raisers. “If someone is really hungry that […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Drop the “but.” It erases all previous words. Use a period instead. I said: I don’t want to hurt you feelings, but, we need to change how we do things here. He heard: we, actually YOU, need to change how we do things here. Funny how the word “but” works in conversation. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We consider what the world calls “computer programmers” these days. Developers. That is what we seem to call computer programmers these days. I work in a building with perhaps a hundred developers. “Are you a developer?” people ask me. Sigh. The trouble is, these developers are not developers because they aren’t developing […]

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by Dwayne Phillips When talking with others, it helps to use one letter of the alphabet and avoid using two others. The one letter to use: I This comes from the old adage, “speak for yourself.” That is harder than it seems as smart people (like me) know so much we are qualified to speak […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A challenge in systems engineering is tracing from requirements through design and implementation to testing. This is done in almost all development methods (often people do this without realizing it). I show a method of tracing that uses Microsoft Word features and link to a video demonstration of the technique. A Requirements […]

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