Making AI Practical and Practicable
With my sincerest thanks to the folks at StirTrek. It’s a lovely show, a great crowd, and they do the community (and me) a huge service in making these talks publicly available. Abstract Software touches every aspect of our lives, and no where is that clearer than in the automotive…
With my sincerest thanks to the folks that put on StirTrek. It’s a lovely show, and they do a yeoman’s work capturing everyone’s talk and putting the content out there. Abstract AI has captured the attention of the world—for better or worse. Hype, noise, and fear are dominating the headlines,…
Hey all, I’m lucky enough to be speaking at KCDC this year. I’ve got a workshop on data structures and a talk about applied AI. Hope to see you there!
This is a short story I wrote for a competition whose theme was queer joy. It’s a fictionalized account of how we settled on my parental title in our little family.
I think that defiance is something worth being proud of, as much for it’s own sake as for the hope that it encourages someone else to be themselves too.
This post originally appeared on SEP’s Blog Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days: headlines, investor decks, your last team meeting, and dinner conversations. Just because AI is hot doesn’t mean it’s well understood. Too often, people reach for AI like it’s duct tape: a fix-all solution for any digital dilemma.…
Last year, AI code gen tools made a huge splash into the software development world. Again. Someone had the bright idea that “Hey, source code is text. Maybe we can generate that!”. What started as one big offering has grown to dozens of tools offering to write our code for…
The world is incredibly excited about AI. We’re told that it can make our employees super human and solve our business problems over night. People selling a service have a tendency to exaggerate its quality and impact. Most of us aren’t AI experts, and that makes it hard to tell…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way businesses operate. The first thing most people think of when they think of AI is automation. Automation is one of the most significant ways AI is being used in business. Specifically, the automation of tedious work. Tedious tasks are repetitive, time-consuming, and…
Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members of the community face. So, as your resident transgender person, I guess I have to do a thing. One can’t go…
