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Titan of Spreadsheets: How Excel Errors Can Lead to Catastrophic Consequences
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Although adding the OceanGate five to the tally would be premature, the recent interrogation got me thinking — are there instances where actual loss of life has occurred due to Excel or other spreadsheet errors? For those unfamiliar with the situation, OceanGate’s submersible Titan imploded in June of 2023. Last week, the U.S. Coast…
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It’s not a bad hammer
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I don’t want to be a Luddite and a doomsday preacher on the corner touting the “end is nigh.” However, the human aspects of Artificial Intelligence – how these tools are created and used continue to concern me greatly. (As a sidebar, I recently finished AI for Social Good by Rahul Dodhia to give…
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Bug In The Algorithm, Or Biased System And IRL Killer?
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“We superimpose human social values onto a mathematical system. The question becomes – Whose values are encoded in the system?” This quote from More than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard is a question worth considering. In More than a Glitch, she writes from her experience in academic research and algorithm auditing, as well as…
Real Last Bot
The musings of a human in the world of bots.
The Personal Journey of a Analyst Human
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Stories From My Life
A recovering analyst with over a decade of experience using data to add profit and personal jets to the collection of the wealthy, now focused on using data to improve equity and highlight the human cost in emerging tech.
Creative Endevours
All work and no play makes for a dull human. A collection of artistic pursuits and fictional writing.