Information Retrieval

Wanna Be an MBA? You Got It and for Only $45US

Updated: 2023-06-30 09:35:00

Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. I managed to eek out of college as an ABD or All But Dissertation. (How useful would it be for me to write 200 pages about Chaucer’s alleged knowledge of the thrilling Apocrypha?) So no […]

Accuracy: AI Struggles with the Concept

Updated: 2023-06-30 09:10:00

For those who find reading and understanding research papers daunting, algorithms can help. At least according to the write-up, “5 AI Tools for Summarizing a Research Paper” at Cointelegraph. Writer Alice Ivey emphasizes research articles can be full of jargon, complex ideas, and technical descriptions, making them tricky for anyone outside the researchers’ field. It […]

Databricks: Signal to MBAs and Data Wranglers That Is Tough to Ignore

Updated: 2023-06-29 15:05:21

Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. Do you remember the black and white pictures of the Pullman riots? No, okay. Steel worker strikes in Pittsburgh? No. Scuffling outside of Detroit auto plants? No. Those images may be helpful to get a […]

Microsoft: A Faint Signal from Employees or Just Noise from Gousers?

Updated: 2023-06-29 09:35:00

Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. I spotted this story in my newsfeed this morning: “Leaked Internal Microsoft Poll Shows Fewer Employees Have Confident in Leadership and Gave the Worst Score to a Question about Whether Working There Is a Good […]

Annoying Humans Bedevil Smart Software

Updated: 2023-06-29 09:10:00

Humans are inherently biased. While sexist, ethnic, and socioeconomic prejudices are implied as the cause behind biases, unconscious obliviousness is more likely to be the culprit. Whatever causes us to be biased, AI developers are unfortunately teaching AI algorithms our fallacies. Bloomberg investigates how AI is being taught bad habits in the article, “Humans Are […]