by Dr. Owns | Feb 18, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In July 1959, Arthur Samuel developed one of the first agents to play the game of checkers. What constitutes an agent that plays checkers can be best described in Samuel’s own words, “…a computer [that] can be programmed so that it will learn to play a better game of...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 18, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Ethical issues aside, should you be honest when asked how certain you are about some belief? Of course, it depends. In this blog post, you’ll learn on what. Different ways of evaluating probabilistic predictions come with dramatically different degrees of “optimal...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 18, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
With the recent explosion of interest in large language models (LLMs), they often seem almost magical. But let’s demystify them. I wanted to step back and unpack the fundamentals — breaking down how LLMs are built, trained, and fine-tuned to become the AI systems we...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 18, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In the past few years, technology and AI have evolved more than ever. As I read about the new concepts in tech and learn new skills and techniques each day, I feel in a state of limbo — there is so much content to consume and yet, very little content that I could...
by Dr. Owns | Feb 18, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
This is the second in a two-part series on using SQLite for Machine Learning. In my last article, I dove into how SQLite is rapidly becoming a production-ready database for web applications. In this article, I will discuss how to perform retrieval-augmented-generation...
