Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we skim the surface to gather an overview. Sometimes we dive in deep to discover the details. I like an overview. I like the nitty gritty details. Which do we like? On which day? For me, the overview is easier. I learn the general idea. I tell people that “all I […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A bit of history and lost opportunity. The Android operating system is 13 years old in November of 2020. Gosh. Horrible memories back to 2007 and early 2008. Senior government managers looked at the mobile landscape back then and declared: The future was the Microsoft phone and its operating system. Junior government […]

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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 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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by Dwayne Phillips Someone please give me a magic wand so that I won’t have to talk to those ogres. I currently work in what some people call “data science” and others call “artificial intelligence and machine learning.” Each day I read something about the “democratization of data science” and the “democratization of artificial intelligence […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I don’t like the metaphor of the software “stack,” never have. Here is one explanation why. I wrote some software on a recent Saturday afternoon. I used Google’s Colaboratory, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, String libraries, Regular Expressions, HTML, and a few other things. I think folks call that a “software stack” these days. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips It can be a sobering question, but one that we should address. Person A: Do you want to hire a scientist or a technician? Person B: A scientist, of course. Person A: But the job description lists a lot of tools, software and otherwise. Person B: Yes, of course. The person needs […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We reinvent the past and give it a new name. IBM is pushing into the cloud computing business. They are “behind” the competition, but have hopes of making ground and money with “hybrid” technologies. Let’s consider this idea of hybrid cloud. I trust the cloud provider to keep my stuff reliably and […]

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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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