Liquid Software
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus I have been thinking a lot recently about permanence. In our industry, we have spent the better …
Category: Data Science
Collaborative Intelligence: Agentic Teamwork
There is a moment in every great jazz improvisation where the individual musicians stop playing at each other and begin playing through each other. Coltrane called it “sheets of sound.” Miles simply called it listening. I’ve been thinking about this …
The Agentic Pattern: Software That Negotiates Its Own Reality
Thank you nano-bannana
The most profound shift in computing isn’t that our tools got faster. It’s that they started saying “I disagree.” We built the first agents as polite function-wrappers—Lisp macros that could choose between search strategies, expert systems that weighed confidence scores. …
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Situational Blind-Spots
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” — Niels Bohr (maybe) Recently I’ve started binging “Foundation” on AppleTV, enjoying it with as much ardor as when I first read Asimov’s trilogy as a child. If you are not familiar …
The Futility of Hand-Wringing
AI Ethics: A Mirror to the Human Psyche In the grand tapestry of technological evolution, we stand at the precipice of a new era, one where artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), hold promise to weave the threads of …
Silent Conversations
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” — Cicero It’s been too many months since my last blog entry. I have remained silent in a field in which I have considerable experience and even more opinions. And it’s …
BLOG EX MACHINA
The arc of technology is ever forward — smaller, faster, cheaper. Ephemeralization. That’s the word Bucky Fuller coined to describe the phenomenon of technologically increasing productivity. I know I’ve written about Fuller a few times. There is no doubt he …
Questions with Flair
When I started on the path to becoming a data scientist I was a bit overwhelmed at the broad set of skills that were required. Granted, I took the decision at a point far enough into my software development career …
the Artificial Solipsist
More than once I have made the observation that Alan Turing used the philosophical foil of Solipsism in his seminal paper the Imitation Game to argue the point that we cannot fully nor completely specify what it means for a …
Pascal’s AI Wager
I believe in belief. A full essay on that particular statement I will save for a future blog entry. For the moment, suffice it to say that I believe that belief itself is a critical aspect of reality — perhaps …