Sunday, July 13, 2025

Adventures in core.logic: learning clojure and logic programming with help from Gen AI

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  This past month my project has been to learn logic programming, and as a vehicle to do this, learn clojure (again).  For those who are not...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Why take opportunities for public speaking as an analytics professional

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For many of us in technical fields, public speaking often feels like a skill we left behind in school or perhaps dusted off for job intervie...
Monday, April 14, 2025

(DRAFT) What do university departments provide to the employers of their students (data science)

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 I gave a talk at the 2025 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Analytics+ conference (i.e., industry pra...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

On simplicity in data science communications

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler   paraphrase of A. Einstein  I spent this past week at the 2024 INFORMS Anal...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Book Review: Maiden of the Lux by Jada Fisher, Book 2 of the Dragon Guard

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Maiden of the Lux by Jada Fisher My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the second book of the series. It is set in an embattled city-state, sur...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Courage in Thirteen Lives

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I paid attention to the Tham Luang Cave Rescue in 2018, not only because it was in Thailand, but also because of my background in both emerg...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Basement home gym - Summer 2022 version

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 The end of 2021 was marked by a burst pipe in the basement, which ruined all of the flooring, but spared all of the equipment (as they were...