A step by step cheat sheet for telling the machine to display useful patterns — The glory days of artificial intelligence (AI) have descended upon us as most, if not all, of new technologies/apps purport to leverage AI. The tech promises to “learn” your habits and “adapt” as your habits change. The ease of use and seemingly intuitive operation of technologies/apps ingratiates us into believing…

A practical blueprint for assessing the value, limitations and quality of new technologies for ourselves and our families — Our modern digital society has us switching amongst a series of technologies/apps throughout our day. We’ve become conditioned to reach for the laptop or mobile device to find answers to our questions, connect with family and friends, stream your favorite shows, or droomscroll on social media. Over past few years…

Shedding light on synthetic data and datasets — We’re taught to conduct research in a vacuum by modeling or simulating a certain circumstance that appears in our physical world. That means essentially ignoring how that circumstance came to be and after it happened. It’s a befuddling premise. We, as people, think that we can isolate a situation without…

Much of the public discourse about tech originally focused on how the outcomes of tech tools, e.g., software, affected people. Then, the conversation turned to algorithms and how they are designed to be exclusionary. Now, we’re having more conscious discussions about the data, both input and output, of these algorithms…