Category: AI / Machine Learning
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Book Selling & Mysterious AI
Although my wife and I have published ebooks before, after going to several SF Conventions the last 3 years, I decided I should also publish my first novel in paperback—maybe even hardback and audio eventually. When I did, mysterious things happened. I published Advance Guards on Amazon, the big boy in indie publishing because, well…
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Machine Unlearning Update
At the end of July, I wrote an article about the problem of machine unlearning or how would you get a model such as ChatGPT to “forget” information that it has been trained on but has later been proven false. My focus was on scientific journal articles that had been revealed to be based on…
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‘Advance Guards’: A Unique Family Saga in a Near-Future Setting
So I finally did it. I finished and published my first novel. It’s called Advance Guards, and if you want a sales pitch, go to the link and read the blurb. That link goes to the ebook, but there’s also a paperback version now. Yes, I’ve already published one book, A Geek’s Progress, but that’s…
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Machine Unlearning
I’m a SF writer and have participated in multiple SF conventions this summer. If you’re not familiar with the world of ‘Cons’, they are a ubiquitous practice where those formerly known as nerds and geeks gather and celebrate the culture of comic books, science fiction, fantasy, science, potential futures, etc., exchanging ideas in the hopes…
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Things That Make Me Go Hmmm
Now that we have not just year and a half election campaign seasons but also month long voting, I’m trying to ignore politics as much as I find possible. The only advantage is that as an old, single guy, it makes my daily trip to the mailbox less futile because every day has at least…
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What YOU Need to Know About Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Now that I have a section on my blog for AI and machine learning, I wanted to repost one of my first essays about it to serve as a general introduction, so people can understand some of the terms I use. For those who are not practitioners of AI, Data Science, Big Data, and all…
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Fear and Envy of AI
The two most frequent and equally dangerous responses to so-called AI are fear and envy. First let’s dispense with the bear in the convenience store. AI is really, as we in the biz like to say, NBI (Nothing But Initials). There’s nothing either artificial or intelligent about what most of us are talking about. Sure…
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Is Your Customer Service Feedback a Lie? And How Does That Impact our Brave New AI World?
Feedback is the life blood of any business. Once you grow your business beyond constantly having personal interactions with your customers, you need some mechanism to tell you how the service or product you provide is meeting or not meeting your customers’ satisfaction. As the owner you eventually get the answer of course when people…
Musings of a Restless Mind 