Artificial Intelligence
I thought about artificial intelligence today while the pathfinding algorithm in my brain directed the car. This was on my drive home from the office, naturally.
Here is a short list of interesting AI and AI-like applications I have worked on, or just come across:
1. A Behavioral application:
Take a look at these behaviors first modeled [...]
outplacement
Here is a term in common use today, about which I located a 1970 article in Time magazine. It seems to resonate even now, and could probably pass for a current story:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902784,00.html
Chinese drugs
You would think that we would figure this out; if you manufacture in China, you need serious supervision on the ground. US news was filled with lead-paint toys, and Thai news (as reported here exclusively) was full of tainted Chinese flatware and textiles. Now this story regarding the drug Heparin:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-heparin20feb20,1,3005441.story
If Chinese manufacturing is a cost-cutting [...]
Insurance Primer
A while back you will recall I wrote an article for a local real estate broker. Plenty of time has passed, so I am now making it available to my loyal readers. Do enjoy Insurance Primer for Residential Real Estate Investors. But make a pot of coffee… this one runs about 11 pages.
For the browsing [...]
open source income
I found a nice little guide to making an income from your open source project, by the mind behind Damn Small Linux. See it here:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/income-guide/
Nice work on the distro, John, I'm using it now.
Open-Source Angels
Intuition tells us that it is hard to sell something that anyone can get for free. Yet freely distributed, open-source (hereafter abbreviated FDOS) projects make money for their developers and others on service, custom development, implementation, training, advertising, t-shirt and book sales, and all manner of other things that grow out of the project.
For [...]
Solutions
Do you ever get too entrenched in sales and leads and prospects, and have to empty your brain and have fun with technology? Well I would love to tell you that I have been enjoying a new computer game, but computer games kept me entertained for all of 2 hours. Then the frustration set [...]
Smooth Transitions
Check out the following articles I wrote for The Florida Insurance School News. The first discusses rewriting businessowner's policies in the wake of mass non-renewals. The second is a followup to the first, almost a sidebar:
Smooth Transitions in the Post BOP Era, Florida Insurance School News, v.10, 3, May 2007
Additional Considerations When Rewriting BOPs, Florida [...]
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