I always try to continue to grow by reading great authors. Last year, the best book I read is a book that is used as the main principle for a fast-growing technology company. It confirms my belief in how to do business and life. Get it, your business relationships will improve. You can click on…
Artificial Intelligence, How Far Can it Go?
In the eighties, I remember seeing the computer do things that only 40 years earlier, no one was imagining. I watched computers provide analysis of data that would have taken many more man-hours to produce, so much so that it was not worth it. Tell the computer what you want, and it will produce it….
Alexa is listening?
So when I heard about a lawsuit alleging Alexa is listening to our children’s conversations, I rolled my eyes. Forgive me, but if I put a microphone in my home and have it powered on in today’s world I expect that someone is listening. The good news for me is that you won’t get state…
Sully Says Our Reputation as Leaders in Aviation is Damaged
Before you click on this link to an article written by Sully, here a few words from a guy who sees this all the time. Fortunately for me, lives were not at stake. The pressure to push products onto the market is common. Cutting corners happens all the time. Then there are the internal turf…
Wall Street Journal Reports Regulators Checking Super Max8 Approval
The questions that are being asked of Boeing and the FAA’s approval process are questions that need to be asked in business processes every day. I have always spoken to the reliability of relying on data without human oversight and diligence. I guess it is no big deal when reporting a number that is off…
Automation is Great…With a Human Close and In Control (Super Max airplane)
I have to say I doubt I would ever get into a self-driving car. As a career technology guy, I have seen computers make mistakes over and over again to create misleading data. Too many times I have seen managers ignore the mistakes. They aren’t necessarily devastating, but when one is talking about pure data,…
Facebook gets your personal data? Again? Surprised? Not me.
About a month ago I was checking my Google docs. Don’t get me wrong, I like Google docs, I keep a bunch of junk docs up there on their servers. To my surprise, in my recently opened docs list was a file I had completely forgotten about. It had been years since I looked at…
200 employees removed from Autonomous vehicle project? Am I surprised? NO!
If you want to know more about Apple’s dismissing of 200 employees, read this article on CNBC. It details how Apple has figured out an autonomous vehicle is a long way off. I say it will never happen. I look at business systems and see so many errors from incorrect data, faulty programming, and data…
Understand How Hard it is to be Hackproof?
Since I spent a few years in the automation world, I found out more about the vulnerabilities that can be exploited that were more potentially catastrophic than even data loss. In a Wall Street Journal article, details are given about how portions of the US power grid were exposed in a unique way that hackers…
Time to Change Your Password? Again?
Nobody is perfect. Don’t think technology is perfect. Even when you try to make sure everything goes right, there are surprises that only a human can rectify. Technology will go crazy on you. I hate changing my password. I have multiple memorized nonsense that I hope keeps me safe, but I sometimes make it more…