This story starts with a scary clown. Not pennywise, a real one. I was a young newlywed college student living in Sparks, Nevada just outside Reno. I was running an e-commerce company while going to school, which is really how I learned how to program in LAMP. Since I was…

Am I smarter than you? F*ck yeah I am. Are you smarter than me? 100%, I’ll prove that too. An open conversation around imposter syndrome and how to reduce it. Talking to people who are wanting to break into the data science space many have opened up about their concerns…

FUD sells, and so do naive academics who are woke on topics they don’t understand. Here are ways you can filter through the noise. Here is my 10-minute digest of a piece making the rounds online: “How to recognize AI snake oil”: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1196870349574623232. Considering that most AI is hype and…

AI is the shiny new toy that differentiates people in the market right now. Everyone pretends they have AI today. In 5 years every company will, now what? What will we celebrate? Our data and what we know about it. — Big Data Hype: Rise And Fall I was on stage in Orlando 6 years ago talking to an HR crowd about big data. Everything was big data this, big data that, got Hadoop yet?! Well… you need it?! Maybe? While speaking I realized nobody in the HR space had a…

The data doesn’t lie. We started noticing this several years ago, first with some of the attraction data that was available. Check out the raw data for men/women attraction as a function of age:

My concept of reality has always had boundaries. Moving outside of those boundaries in the past has been classified as “science fiction”. I have noticed during my lifetime those boundaries, considered absolute, have been eroded away more than once. …

A Chemical Engineer’s Reality:

This AI home security system can use deep-learning and figure out when kids are making messes, or doing things that need action. This type of technology could save a life in the future (e.g. kid choking on a blind cord). — Who did this! I say as I look at the eggs, baking soda, flour, and real-lemon juice on the kitchen floor. The recipe, turned science experiment, has turned into a Jackson Pollack food painting: