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 brought in from the fields, af...
A few decades back the job role called data scientists didn’t exist. There were employees who used to analyze, organize, and clean the data. But they were no actual pro...
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 drove me to do s...
In my blog “Making Informed Decisions in Imperfect Situations”, I discussed the importance of properly and objectively framing the decision that we seek to make and h...
The Importance of Dimensional Modeling When I was in high school, I had a superb chemistry teacher, something I, unfortunately, failed to appreciate until long after I we...
In the DSC November 2 editorial, I posed a question I’ve wondered about for a while. Why is it so hard to create a shared-reality world, whether it’s called V...
Why Are Metaverses So Hard To Build? Facebook has been in the news lately, possibly tied into attempting to change the narrative after October’s disastrous outages....
When the Power Goes Out Seattle has a reputation for being rainy, though it’s actually drier than many other places that don’t have that reputation. However, ...
Fleet management is a thriving industry around the world with massive potential in-store. Its contribution to the global economy is considerable, with estimates to increa...
The Art of Model Making When I was in the seventh grade, our teacher took us on a field trip to see an architect as part of an exploration of careers that seemed to have ...