Generative AI (GenAI) products like OpenAI ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard are disrupting the roles of data engineers and data scientists. According to a… Read More »Next-Gen Data Scientist: Thinking Like an Economist
This is part 1 of a three-part series on the Economics of Ethics. Here’s the problem with the data and AI ethics conversation – if… Read More »Economics of Ethics: Is Ethics Ultimately an Economics Conversation? Part I
I live near the top of one of the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in the Puget Sound, my first year of living here after spending the last decade in a valley near sea level, only a few miles away. Warily, we’re watching the heavy, sullen clouds move in even as a cold weather system presses in from the north, a guaranteed recipe for snow. Winter is coming.
Fractals are all around us. Nature has used them in its design. One can see fractal patterns in trees, coastlines, mountains, snowflakes, hurricanes, and neurons. They are essentially never-ending patterns. They are a paradox as they nature is highly complex yet they are created by a simple process.
Every now and then, a conversation with my kids goes off the rails. And this was one of those conversations. We tend to have unusual… Read More »Is God an Economist?
For nine years, my family and I have lived in a house in Issaquah, a little community about twenty minutes east of Seattle. The town… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest: Moving Time
Why do data silos, and now analytic silos, continue to exist? It can’t be due to technical issues. Data silos appeared in the 1990s when… Read More »Abundance Mentality is Key to Exploiting the Economics of Data
Why do data silos, and now analytic silos, continue to exist? It can’t be due to technical issues. Data silos appeared in the 1990s when… Read More »Abundance Mentality is Key to Exploiting the Economics of Data
