2021
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Intermezzo: Intelligence Work
I’ve had some interesting conversations lately, one, in particular, was with the man who rewrote the Pentagon’s hardware and software acquisition guidelines. After his time in the US Airforce, he…
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Defense Against the DARQ Arts, Optimization: Part 3 – My Optimization Odyssey, the Mormon Trail
My Optimization Odyssey continued in Utah, but not without a temptation to go back to Cali. In many ways, I was doing a reverse trek. You see, Wallace Stegner, the legendary founder of the creative…
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Defense Against the DARQ Arts, Optimization: Part 3 – My Optimization Odyssey, the Oregon Trail
Now, that we’ve had a little introduction to linear programming, I think the most useful thing to do before proceeding into more complex areas is to give you a walk-through of my own experiences with…
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Defense Against the DARQ Arts, Optimization: Part 2
Among my friends and associates, we have a varied group of heroes we follow, so much so that confusion sometimes occurs. For example, a while back I mentioned to my colleague Hal Tolley, “I…
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Defense Against the DARQ Arts, Optimization: Part 1
While I’m more of an Inkings guy (like the Dean of Oxford Business School, Peter Tufano), but in homage to BYU’s Dean Brigette Madrian and herHarry Potter obsession, I’m going to start a series of…
2020
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Dreaming is Nursed in DARQness, Part 2: The Future of AI
The Economist’s Technology Quarterly this last week was entitled “Artificial Intelligence and It’s Limits.” It’s worth a read or two. While it is meant to address the limits of AI in general, much of…
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Into the DARQNess, An Introduction
I believe that the future doesn’t lie in some great beyond, but it is in the great now with mankind utilizing technology correctly just like heroes in the movies. But the technology that will allow…
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The (Coming) Diamond Age, Part 2 – Hello DARQness, My Old Friend
Some of the things that I view as most beautiful in life are the little things by which so many big things hinge. These are things that some see as “destiny or design,” which can sometimes help nudge…
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The (Coming) Diamond Age, Part 1 – What will happen with AI and Augmenting Human Intelligence
The Diamond Age is arguably Neal Stephenson’s greatest work. I don’t say this because of its length (Cryptonomicon), epic scope (The Baroque Cycle), or ambitious delivery mechanism (Mongolaid)…
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Artificial and Augmented Intelligence, Part 3 – Homer, HELP, and the Iliad System
An early result demonstrating the importance of a proper process of integrating human and machine intelligence was presented to the world by one of my all-time heroes, Homer Warner, who I first heard…
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Artificial and Augmented Intelligence, Part 2 – Chess from Pacioli to Kasparov and the Lesson Learned
For hundreds of years, Chess has been the standard that man used to judge himself and machines. The greatest (and first) math professor in Europe, over five hundred years ago, wrote a book with his…
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Artificial and Augmented Intelligence, Part 1 – Chessmaster 2000 and the Defeat of (my) Big Brother
I’m writing this on the plane back to Salt Lake from New York and based upon some conversations that I had, I thought an entry on artificial and augmented intelligence was merited. In the last few…