by Dr. Owns | Mar 14, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
While some games, like rock-paper-scissors, only work if all payers decide on their actions simultaneously, other games, like chess or Monopoly, expect the players to take turns one after another. In Game Theory, the first kind of game is called a static game, while...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Staying on top of a fast-growing research field is never easy. I face this challenge firsthand as a practitioner in Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). New papers, be they algorithmic advancements or cutting-edge applications, are published at an accelerating...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In recent years, Parquet has become a standard format for data storage in Big Data ecosystems. Its column-oriented format offers several advantages: Faster query execution when only a subset of columns is being processed Quick calculation of statistics across all data...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Poetry is often seen as a pure art form, ranging from the rigid structure of a haiku to the fluid, unconstrained nature of free-verse poetry. In analysing these works, though, to what extent can mathematics and Data Analysis be used to glean meaning from this...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Now that we’ve explored Hadoop’s role and relevance, it’s time to show you how it works under the hood and how you can start working with it. To start, we are breaking down Hadoop’s core components — HDFS for storage, MapReduce for processing, YARN for resource...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
LoRA (Low Rank Adaptation – arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685) is a popular technique for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on the cheap. But 2024 has seen an explosion of new parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, an alphabet soup of LoRA alternatives: SVF, SVFT,...
