by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
When I built a GPT-powered fashion assistant, I expected runway looks—not memory loss, hallucinations, or semantic déjà vu. But what unfolded became a lesson in how prompting really works—and why LLMs are more like wild animals than tools. This article builds on my...
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Although normal distributions are the most commonly used, a lot of real-world data unfortunately is not normal. When faced with extremely skewed data, it’s tempting for us to utilize log transformations to normalize the distribution and stabilize the variance. I...
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
I really enjoyed reading this paper, not because I’ve met some of the authors before, but because it felt necessary. Most of the papers I’ve written about so far have made waves in the broader ML community, which is great. This one, though, is unapologetically African...
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Thank you for the kind response to Part 1, it’s been encouraging to see so many readers interested in time series forecasting. In Part 1 of this series, we broke down time series data into trend, seasonality, and noise, discussed when to use additive versus...
by Dr. Owns | May 9, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
I recently had the chance to create an MCP server for an observability application in order to provide the AI agent with dynamic code analysis capabilities. Because of its potential to transform applications, MCP is a technology I’m even more ecstatic about than I...
by Dr. Owns | May 8, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
It’s well known that what we eat matters — but what if when and how often we eat matters just as much? In the midst of ongoing scientific debate around the benefits of intermittent fasting, this question becomes even more intriguing. As someone passionate about...
