Update It’s rather unfortunate that there has not been an objective review of the recent election process along with some sort of bipartisan conclusion. For the last 60 days, it’s been difficult to find any attentive rebuttals for the many claims
Category: Engineering
Does AI Mean ‘Augmented Intelligence’?
Update In a recent article about the inappropriateness of the Turing Test, the lead scientist for Amazon’s Alexa talks about the proper focus of AI efforts: “Instead of obsessing about making AIs indistinguishable from humans, our ambition should be building
Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID?
The orderly control of pandemics always starts with quick and reliable testing as well as proactive and selective prevention… Neither of which are being practiced with the response to COVID. It appears that the current state of medical uncertainty (i.e.,
Practical Application of Statistics & Data Analytics
The press is bubbling with excitement about machine learning, statistics, and data analytics. However, for the rank and file, the applications of these techniques are not intuitive. Here are some interesting applications for recent emotional public events in the election
Perception of Time at the Intersection of Neurology & Physics
With the invention of digital computers, the notion of time as a universal construct has become extremely pervasive. Most data are recorded and retrieved with the construct of a date/time stamp. For example, when people review their bank accounts, they
One More Engineering Joke
How many nuclear engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? Seven. One to install the new bulb and six to figure out what to do with the old one for the next 10,000 years.
More Engineering Humor
Newton asked a group of medical students, science students, management students, and engineering students the question, “How can you write 4 in between 5 with just 2 characters?” The medical students answered, “This is a joke, right?” The science students
Only an Engineer Understands
A pretty decent article in Interesting Engineering: 1. You have the constant urge to build and tinker with something 2. Always thinking about making things work better 3. Going into a project and having absolutely no idea what to do
Engineering Humor
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!” The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know,
Drag Racing at Kil-Kare
I was on my 40-mile bicycle ride this morning, which took us right past Kil-Kare Motor Speedway. This raceway is located approximately 10 miles east of Dayton. The place was packed, and of course the drag racers were loud, so