Discussions & Quotes
Thought Leadership – A brief look at MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Leading with moral principles isn’t easy, but it is effective. The path forward may still prove long and arduous, but you’ll have the satisfaction of doing the right thing right.
Categorized as Overweight
Most of us are overweight. That is what we are told, and as evidence, the News has images of out-of-shape people eating dessert on the sidewalk. At first glance it looks true, we are overweight. The data support the claim. But with 75% of adult...
Jefferson to Adams, A Correspondence of Inquiry
People prefer to affiliate themselves with wealthy, beautiful, and well born persons over those whose gifts are limited to only virtue and wisdom. John Adams, citing evidence from ancient Greek poetry, stated that this behavior has always existed;...
Binary Classification, a Machine Learning Exercise
Predicting an adult's gender based on arm circumference or upper leg length won't address any modern day problem. Should the need arise, it is more accurate to simply inquire if the person is male or female. However, using machine learning to...
Summer Precipitation in Connecticut, 2021
Whenever the weather seems unseasonably extreme in one direction or the other, I find myself wondering how it compares to years past. This recent summer in Connecticut started off with several rainy weekends that potentially biased my opinion, so...
Temperature Data Visualization in Python
Daily high/low temperatures for 2020 as compared to the preceding 20 years for Central Connecticut. The solid red and blue circles on the chart indicate days in 2020 that set new record highs or lows as compared to the preceding 20 years.The...
Lincoln on the Eve of the Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,...
An FDR Quote on Leadership
“The presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times...
Ai4 Healthcare 2019 Conference, Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
November 2019, Ai4 Health Care held its second annual conference in New York City. Speakers and attendees shared their experiences, expertise, and perspectives on AI - Artificial intelligence. Excitement over AI was widely shared. It was often...
Leadership Literature and a Team of Rivals
From How-To books and seminars to inspirational banners and posters, everybody is adding content to the leadership story. There's not enough time to read or make sense of it all, and clearly it isn't all worth reading. Since advice on leadership...
FMEA Literacy
Increasing an FMEA’s readability is about ensuring a consistent cadence from line to line, Function to Recommended Action, left to right. The logic has to be consistent and obvious to a person not having an intimate knowledge of the design’s intricacies.
Machine Learning in Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence has crept into almost every aspect of modern society. The recent boom in AI started with a subcategory called Machine Learning (ML), where software is ‘taught’ how to recognize patterns in data using sophisticated algorithms...
River of Doubt
They both possessed a sense of humility that drove them to treat all people with dignity and respect, while at the same time demanding a certain level performance from everybody according to their station. They were leaders of the mission, but they did not to wield this rank in every aspect of their relationships with others.
Ai4 Healthcare 2018 – Artificial Intelligence Examples
Considering a large hospital with approximately 1000 beds, the data generated for a single patient in a single day is larger than any single person can analyze. Multiply by every patient and you have Big Data. A care provider needn’t understand all the data, because it comes from multiple departments and specialties.
AI Disrupting Healthcare
What if the big tech companies, with all their insight into our lifestyle choices and all of the health data accumulating on our phones and in our online history, started analyzing health trends? What if Alexia, Cortana, or my watch not only reminded me to take a few steps, but also commented on trends in my blood pressure or weight data and correlated these with my diet or mood?
Design Transfer and Manganese Sulfide Inclusions
Launching new products requires collaboration between individuals and teams. Collaboration is present when you notice that all members are learning together. Unanswered questions and loosely defined philosophical explanations, delay launches.