Category Archives: Editorial

Chopping Off Data

Posted on October 19, 2020 by way0utwest

Do you know the difference between XLS and XLSX? They’re both Excel formats, and many of us might just use one or the other. After all, the latest versions of Excel work with both, and if you’ve been using a … Continue reading →

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Career Goals and Inspiration

Posted on October 16, 2020 by way0utwest

Many of us start working in technology because we enjoy programming or software or data or some other aspect of computing. We usually have some excitement that gets us motivated to start learning or apply for a job. Over time, we … Continue reading →

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The Degradation of the Turing Test

Posted on October 15, 2020 by way0utwest

The Turing Test from Alan Turing was proposed as a test of an intelligent system. Could a human determine if the other party in a conversation was a machine? This was an interesting way of imagining how powerful a computer … Continue reading →

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Bean Counting to Burnout

Posted on October 14, 2020 by way0utwest

I was listening to a story about healthcare in the US recently. This was an interview with Vivian Lee, the author of The Long Fix, which proposes some ways to improve the system under which I live. I thought it … Continue reading →

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