Kurt Cagle is the former contributing editor for Data Science Central. Kurt is a published author with more than twenty books to his credit, and has been working as a technology editor for years, writing for Forbes, O'Reilly Media, IDC and others. He has also been a consulting information architect and ontologist with more than twenty years experience working with Fortune 100 companies and US and European agencies, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on data technologies.
Can Machine Learning Do Symbolic Manipulation? I spent some time over the holidays engaged in a fascinating online conversation. The gist of it was a… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 04 Jan 2022: Can Machine Learning Do Symbolic Manipulation?
The last week of the year has traditionally been about reflections and planning, taking stock of the old (or auld), and preparing for the changes… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 28 December 2021: An Auld Lang Syne (and Cosyne Too)
Today, the 21st of December, is the Winter Solstice, unless you happen to be in sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, Argentina, or Antarctica, or other points south… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 21 December 2021: Winter Solstice Shenanigans
Artificial Intelligence has a long history of oscillating between two somewhat contradictory poles. On one side, exemplified by Noam Chomsky, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert, and… Read More »Where Semantics and Machine Learning Converge
The day before I started writing this, a tornado hit central Kentucky, touching down and then staying in contact with the ground for more than… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 14 December 2021: Evolution and the Winds of Change
An Unevenly Distributed Future Once again, the specter of a new n-Cov-2 variant, in this case, omicron, is making its way around the world, like… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 7 December 2021: Unevenly Distributed Futures
This article explores a few features of the new DSC Gutenberg editor, illustrating how specifically to use the new components to build out professional-quality content.
There’s a fair amount of overlaps between programmers and mathematicians. Both tend to be very logical thinkers. Both like manipulating abstract entities in their… Read More »Into the Nth Dimension
The harvest festival goes back millennia, almost to the dawn of agriculture itself. It is held after the barley and corn and rice have been… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 30 November 2021: Season's Greetings
This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 23 Nov 2021: Moving Towards Digital Identity
