If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
– Isaac Newton
The ramblings below are merely my take on the ideas and thoughts of the many great thinkers whose work has influenced and inspired me. It is said that several hundred years ago, alchemy was a mainstream practice but while scientific discovery was shared and expanded on, all progress in alchemy was a highly guarded secret and so science flourished and alchemy died out.
It is in this spirit that I share these thoughts below. They are by no means definitive, but more a basis for thought, discussion and advancement.
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Survivorship Bias
In the early post-pandemic era, I was sitting in the synagogue (shul) one Saturday morning, at least 2 seats away from anyone else, my face covered by a mask. A hint of normalcy was beginning to return, and the Rabbi posed a question to the small number of congregants seated in front of him: Would […]
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On the Speed of Progress
From the first manned flight at Kittyhawk in 1903 until Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969 was a mere 66 years. The progress in aviation from zero to manned rockets to the moon, and beyond to the era of reusable space shuttles was nothing short of remarkable. I was recently South Africa, the […]
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What is Machine Learning?
With the explosion in use and popularity of ChatGPT and the proliferation of AI tools I thought I’d attempt to demystify Machine Learning (ML) and give some simple insights into what it actually is and how it works.