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Thursday Seeds | Data that Samples
Let me preface this post with an important point: I’m not a data scientist. I do have training in systems and processes in my industrial engineering back ground. The beauty of this is that I have a different view point than many classically trained scientists. They could look at my article and scoff their heads off. To each their own. But this is almost the very point of the last article that I posted regarding data: Graphers that POV. My view point could be valued to the point that it could change the way we look at certain given types of data. It’s curious to think about how an algorithm…
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Thursday Seeds | Renewal
Spring is here in the South. The seeds are sprouting, the bumble bees are the first pollinators to arrive, and rains happen when they feel like it. Luckily, no massive storm clouds for this neck of the woods. These are the blessings that should be counted in the number of the seeds. The data samples could be in those numbers too. Because not all will survive, seeds tend to be many so that some will find a good place to germinate, grow and bloom. Bloom where you are planted. <=The Seed idiom of the day. Incidentally, I promised a data that sample post this week. Stay tuned for next week.…
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Thursday Seeds | Graphers that POV
What are graphers? They are typically numbers people but really relate to data best in graphic form. They understand the need to harness the data that many companies are already storing. Instead of using SQL and traditional databases, they use graph databases which structure the data in a design pattern. Using these design patterns, graphers use a different method to pull that data out for presentation so that business leaders can make specific relevant decisions about their business. My usual go to when I refer to the need of a knowledge graph is “graphers gonna graph”. This takes it all a step further. Because not only do they graph, that…
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Not yet March, spring fever snaps
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Thursday Seeds | AI and the Next Gen
You have dialed into a huge can of worms metaphorically… stay tuned or keep scrolling. Ai videos – the joke about 6 fingers. What if humans start developing them? ;-o What if the third eye isn’t in the mind? ;-o What about your cat with the heart nose. Real or AI? Why are folks so hesitant to work with AI? Well a portion of it is trust. The movies have not helped or have helped depending on your point of view. We should be educated and fact checking. If AI gives us an answer, how are we sure that the answer is correct? If AI tells us we SHOULD have…
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Thursday Seeds | Lens not in Focus
I did twirl for this picture to let the camera lens blur on purpose but I got the idea from a previous shot where I thought the camera was off and it did a partial swirl. Then I decided I wanted to do it intentionally. Deep set eyes, depth perception, and the changes of eyes when we get older are the reason many of us in the 50s are now buying up the market in reading glasses or other optical corrections that otherwise would not be needed. You made it to this age! Good for you! Now here’s a tool. Laser surgery is an option. And perhaps since it has…
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Thursday Seeds | Travel in your Head
Traveling to the fun places! That’s where we want to go. It’s cheap. Cheaper than the real thing! Unless you haven’t actually been anywhere, then your head isn’t full of amazing places. You have to feed the library or it really is boring in there… or here. The beauty of a collective is sharing. Even if I’ve never had the pleasure of going to Hawaii, I can still get there if I know some folks who have and they share photos. Photos are so much easier to share with the internet. They let us intersect into each other’s lives in a way we didn’t have growing up if you are…
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Thursday Seeds | The World is Your Oyster
How many times have you heard that idiom? “The World is your Oyster” But I don’t like oysters. So if the world is something that I don’t want to eat then weight loss is no problem! Ha. This is where I ramble on about how great things are. But am I really feeling it? I’m not. And so what’s in your Oyster? When I peer into the thing, I’m hoping that it has as many pearl-like greens and blues as an abalone. It doesn’t. But there is some pearl to it. And if I fish around in the meat, there is the potential of probablity that there could be a…
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Thursday Seeds | The Fixin’s and the Dressing
The fixin’s and the dressing automatically makes me think of Holiday meals. If you are Chinese or Asian, you may have just observed the Chinese New Year just yesterday. What does that mean? How many New Year’s Celebrations do we need? We need this one and it’s probably to do with how many calendars are there as well as the question of what your culture is. What is your culture? Are you open to more than what your parents taught you? And those Fixin’s and dressings: Have you seen the number of bowls and plates served in Korean food? It’s not just about sauces. There are bowls and bowls and…
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Thursday Seeds | I’m Sorry, I made a Mistake.
It’s a topic. From one email titled hard conversations, this is a statement that is true. “ 2. Everyone owes somebody an apology—and when you do it, keep it simple. “ Apologies can go viral. If the Musk guy did one, it would. But he won’t and I don’t want to make this post about that. How many apologies do you give? Do you end it with the phrase, “I won’t do it again.” And if you do, do you mean it? That is what gives an apology true weight. It’s not just acknowledging that you messed up to the person that you hurt, but also making a commitment not to…
