Empowering AI with a mission Something that I’ve been thinking about lately on applying AI to business. We’ve probably all seen those videos where the developer gives his AI system a goal for Super Mario and the AI figures out the most interesting glitches and exploits the game in a way that we would never be able to. There are also times when the AI thought that the best way to beat it was just to pause the game forever. Interesting result but not what we were looking for. How about a web application? Can we define a goal, or
Author: Dino Cajic
The journey toward a more fulfilling life I was recently reading an article on happiness in America. The individuals moved out of America and became happier in the process. They stated, “it turns out that we don’t have mental health issues, we simply needed to be out of America.” This sounded strange to me. After all, America is the country that everyone wants to enter, not leave. However, I wanted to dissect this statement and figure out the root cause of it. It’s something that I’ve heard from friends and family that live abroad. It turns out that I didn’t
The heartbeat of every successful business I used to be the individual that didn’t care about culture in an organization. “If you did your job and everyone else did theirs, then why do we have to be culturally aligned?” I will tell you that over the last few years, I’ve seen first hand what culture can do inside a business. A difficult one to tackle is when you bring multiple companies together during M&A deals. Culture in business refers to the shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices that shape the way people within an organization interact with one another and
The language of reason You don’t realize how little logic you have until you go through the pains of becoming a developer. I tried the exercise with my family recently and asked them to pretend that I’m a robot that needs instructions on how to do things. They quickly realized how difficult that is. I’ve had friends that are extremely logical in nature but didn’t understand how much pure logic they were lacking until they became developers. Overall, logic is important to have. It helps individuals to think critically and make sound decisions based on evidence and reason. This is
Navigating life’s choices with wisdom, seeking meaningful impact efficiently As I finished writing my previous article, I thought of something interesting. Why not apply this to my life? So I did. I took the projects that I had and placed them into the grid. There was only one problem: it was too “business-centric.” There was no happiness involvement. I feel like the 2D matrix above should be transformed into a 3D matrix with X = Effort, Y = Impact, and Z = Happiness. At that point, you can accurately plot your personal projects and see how they fit into your
Balancing the value of actions against their costs The Impact vs Effort matrix is a simple yet powerful tool that can be used to prioritize tasks or projects based on their potential impact and the effort required to complete them. The matrix is particularly useful for teams that need to manage their workload effectively and make the best use of their limited resources. It is also known as an Eisenhower matrix, named after former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who famously said, “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the
A journey of coding and bonding My son is entering 4th grade and I thought, “can’t be a better time to teach him programming than now.” It helped that he genuinely expressed interest as well. I’m about a week in and it’s going great. We’ve even started going through and programming a robot hand on the Raspberry Pi. https://amzn.to/3ZQguMV I started with some basics on machine code to Assembly and then to Python. I showed him the logic gates and how dumb computers really are (he really like that one :)). I then guided him on how to setup his
When the quest for efficiency becomes overwhelming AI is taking over the world, so they say. If that’s your worry, let me introduce the concept of AI automation fatigue. AI is not something new. It’s been here for quite some time and companies have utilized it for years. There is this “automate everything” mentality that occurs during the introductory stages of AI, but after some time, the ROI starts to diminish. Individuals struggle with finding what else to automate. These are not AGI systems (Artificial General Intelligence) where they can reason. They need to be trained on specific datasets and
Where Laravel developers feel right at home It can sometimes feel like the documentation skips a few steps here and there. Other times, the documentation can feel overwhelming. Let’s demystify this process. Goals to accomplish: Introduction to Homestead Setup Homestead on Windows 10 for all of your websites Create a Laravel 8 application SSH into Homestead and create a database Migrate database tables Verify that everything is working: able to type in domain.test in our browsers. Introduction to Homestead The first step, of course is to go to the Laravel documentation. We’ll follow it throughout this article so that if something changes
The brainpower behind intelligent decision-making That title sounded scary. It’s not meant to be. Humans make judgement calls each day. When you have ambiguity, you have to understand the context and then state what you believe that ambiguity means. What are some examples of judgement that humans do well at work? Decision making Humans have the ability to weigh the pros and cons of different options, analyze potential outcomes, and make informed decisions based on available information. Good decision-making skills require critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to balance competing priorities. Problem-solving People can identify and analyze complex problems, break