May 1, 2025

What problems will we need to solve on the road to Artificial General Intelligence? In the previous article in this ...

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April 1, 2025

What problems are we currently solving on the road to Artificial General Intelligence? In the previous article in this series ...

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March 1, 2025

What problems have we already solved on the road to Artificial General Intelligence? In the previous article in this series ...

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February 1, 2025

What are the three levels of AI capabilities? In the previous article in this series on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), ...

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January 1, 2025

What if I told you that alien lifeforms were on their way to Earth right at this very moment? We ...

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December 1, 2024

What is the best way to get started with AI agents? Recently, I’ve had a recurring conversation with my clients. ...

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November 1, 2024

What are AI agents? This is a question I’ve been hearing frequently from my clients. However, it remains a source ...

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October 1, 2024

Over the past few years, I’ve seen dozens of articles claiming that we’ve reached the top of the AI growth ...

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September 1, 2024

How do you maximize the likelihood of your startup’s success? A startup is a hypothesis — it’s a belief that ...

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August 1, 2024

During my junior year of high school, my Principal and mentor, Dr. Keith Guy, introduced me to my first Independent ...

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July 1, 2024

What are the key ideas that Artificial Intelligence is built upon? In my previous article in this series, we discussed ...

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June 1, 2024

What are the key ideas that Artificial Intelligence is built upon? In my previous article in this series, we discussed ...

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May 1, 2024

What are the key ideas that Artificial Intelligence is built upon? In my previous article in this series, we discussed ...

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April 1, 2024

What are the key ideas that Artificial Intelligence is built upon? In our previous article in this series, we saw ...

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March 1, 2024

What are the key ideas that Artificial Intelligence is built upon? The field of AI is built on a foundation ...

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February 1, 2024

The end of this month marks the 11-year anniversary of Renze Consulting. As I look back on the past decade, ...

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January 1, 2024

During a recent discussion panel at Johns Hopkins University, a student asked a great question: When is the right time ...

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December 1, 2023

How do I get a job in AI? In the previous article in this series on Getting Started in AI, ...

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November 1, 2023

How do I get certified as an expert in AI skills? In our previous article in this series on Getting ...

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October 1, 2023

What’s the best way to practice AI skills? In the previous article in this series on Getting Started with AI, ...

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September 1, 2023

How do I learn practical AI skills? In my previous article on this series about Getting Started with AI, we ...

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August 1, 2023

How do I learn the basics of AI? In my previous article in this series on Getting Started with AI, we ...

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July 1, 2023

How do I choose a degree in AI? In the last article in this series on Getting Started with AI, ...

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June 1, 2023

How do I choose a career in AI? In the previous article in this series on Getting Started with AI, ...

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May 1, 2023

Why should I learn about AI? In my previous article in this series on Getting Started with AI, we discuss ...

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April 1, 2023

How do I get started with AI? Over the past few months, I’ve seen a noticeable increase in people asking ...

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March 1, 2023

How will AI impact creative professionals and other content creators over the next few years? In my previous article, we ...

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February 1, 2023

How will AI impact software developers and IT professionals? Over the past few months, I’ve been getting frequent questions about ...

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January 1, 2023

2022 has been a great year for advances in AI and 2023 looks to be even bigger. We’ve seen amazing ...

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November 1, 2022

Over the past decade, I’ve created over a dozen successful online courses. Many of these courses have done considerably well ...

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October 1, 2022

What can we learn about our diet and exercise from measuring our blood glucose? When your blood glucose levels rise, ...

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September 1, 2022

Last year, I started working on my Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at Johns Hopkins University. As a life-long learner, ...

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August 1, 2022

In my last article, we answered the question “Should I become an independent technology consultant?” In this article, we’ll answer ...

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July 1, 2022

About a decade ago, I made a big career decision — I decided to become an independent technology consultant. This ...

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June 1, 2022

Over the past few years, I’ve mentored over 100 students that are getting started with careers in technology. Most of ...

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May 1, 2022

For over 170 years, World Expos have brought the nations of the world together to showcase their technology, culture, and ...

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April 1, 2022

What roles will still be available for humans if AI automates all of our jobs? Currently, about half of all ...

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March 1, 2022

What career paths are available with AI and how do I get started with them? When considering a long-term career ...

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February 1, 2022

My wife and I recently received access to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta program. Over the past month, we’ve learned ...

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January 1, 2022

How do we leverage AI to improve our economy for everyone? There is a lot of talk about the negative ...

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December 1, 2021

Why do good people make bad decisions? When a stranger makes a bad decision, our initial instinct is to assume ...

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November 1, 2021

What skills should we be teaching our children today to prepare them for the future? The McKinsey Global Institute predicts ...

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October 1, 2021

What do you need to know to succeed in college? Over the past 25 years, I’ve completed two bachelor’s degrees, ...

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September 15, 2021

How do we build robots and self-driving cars with AI? In my previous article in this multi-part series on The ...

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September 1, 2021

How do we build AI applications? All of the tools we’ve covered so far in this series on The AI ...

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August 15, 2021

How do we use AI to generate new videos from scratch? In my last article in this series on The ...

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August 1, 2021

How do we use AI to extract useful information from videos? The real world isn’t composed of static images and ...

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July 15, 2021

How do we use AI to generate new images from scratch? In my last article in this series on The ...

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July 1, 2021

How do we use AI to extract useful information from images? Our world is highly visual. We derive most of ...

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June 15, 2021

How do we use AI to generate new audio from scratch? In my last article in this series on The ...

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June 1, 2021

How do we use AI to extract useful information from audio? Audio is how we hear the world and speak ...

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May 15, 2021

How do we use AI to generate new text from scratch? In my last article in this series on The ...

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May 1, 2021

How do we use AI to extract useful information from text? Text is how we communicate information to one another ...

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April 15, 2021

How do we use AI to generate new tabular data from scratch? In my last article in this series on ...

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April 1, 2021

How do we use AI to extract useful information from tables of data? Tables are how we organize structured data ...

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March 1, 2021

Just a few years ago, adding AI to your products or services required a team of data scientists, volumes of ...

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February 15, 2021

In the book The Power of Habit, author Charles Duhigg discusses the idea of keystone habits. We all have a ...

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February 1, 2021

How should I invest in AI? As an AI Consultant, I get asked this question quite often. Surprisingly, my advice ...

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January 15, 2021

In my previous article in this two-part series, we discussed information bubbles. We discussed what they are, how you get ...

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January 1, 2021

Are you stuck in an information bubble? How would you even know if you were? More importantly, what can you ...

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December 15, 2020

2020 has truly been a strange and confusing year. We’ve dealt with a global pandemic, civil unrest, political turmoil, and ...

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December 1, 2020

Over the past few years, I’ve started using a few wearable devices on a daily basis. It started as a ...

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November 1, 2020

Over the past few years, I’ve been using AutoHotkey with a custom key-binding script to enhance my keyboard productivity. These ...

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October 1, 2020

Will humanity become obsolete in the Age of AI? Over the next few decades, we will likely see a fundamental ...

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September 1, 2020

With great power comes great responsibility. Over the past several years, we’ve developed a few new superpowers as a result ...

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August 26, 2020

Do you feel overwhelmed by all of the “fake news” being spread via mainstream news and social media? Are you ...

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August 12, 2020

My wife and I had to take a short trip from Las Vegas to San Diego over the weekend, so ...

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August 1, 2020

Who will be the world’s first trillionaire? Every year, returns to capital investments continue to increase while returns to labor ...

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July 1, 2020

Will AI replace my job? This is one of the most common questions I get asked regarding the future of ...

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June 1, 2020

Why is education important during the AI tech revolution? Over the past few millennia, humanity has gone through several major ...

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May 1, 2020

What technologies are responsible for the recent success of modern data-driven artificial intelligence? There are a variety of industry trends ...

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April 1, 2020

Where did artificial intelligence come from and advances and setbacks have occurred along the way? The history of AI can ...

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March 1, 2020

What types of AI exist and how do we classify them? There are three main types of artificial intelligence that ...

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February 1, 2020

What is artificial intelligence? Intelligence is rather difficult to define, which makes defining artificial intelligence even more difficult. While there ...

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January 1, 2020

Whether you realize it or not, our world is going through a major transition. We’re entering the era of artificial ...

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December 15, 2019

How did we transition from hunter-gatherers to building data-driven A.I. systems? The evolution of data science throughout the major eras ...

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November 15, 2019

How do we get from raw data to action in data science? To understand the data-driven decision-making process, we need ...

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October 15, 2019

In data science, the most common data structure we encounter is a table of data. We refer to this as ...

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September 15, 2019

In data science, we commonly encounter several composite data types. By composite, we mean that the data type contains multiple ...

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August 15, 2019

In data science, we commonly encounter several scalar data types. By scalar , we mean that the data type contains ...

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July 15, 2019

How do we represent data in a computer? All data inside of modern computers are stored as a series of ...

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June 15, 2019

In our previous article, we learned that data were primarily divided into two main types: categorical and numerical data. However, ...

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May 15, 2019

What types of data exist in data science and how do we classify them? In data science, there are two ...

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April 15, 2019

What is the purpose of collecting data, creating information, and acquiring knowledge? Essentially, what makes data so important in data ...

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March 15, 2019

Data, information, and knowledge are the key building blocks of data science. However, most people don’t really understand what they ...

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February 15, 2019

“Should I pursue a career in data science?” This is one of the most common questions I get asked these ...

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January 15, 2019

Is your organization stuck on its journey to data-driven AI? Many organizations find that they become stalled in their data-science ...

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December 15, 2018

Is your organization struggling to kick-start its data-science journey? Many organizations struggle at the beginning with their data-science initiatives. Sometimes ...

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October 12, 2018

What would happen if every doctor in the world was rated solely on the number of lives they saved? At ...

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September 19, 2018

When you’re first starting out with data science, you will likely have many questions. However, one question that seems to ...

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August 15, 2018

The question I get asked most frequently these days is “How do I get started with data science”. This question ...

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April 1, 2018

Article for Tinnitus Today on managing visual snow and tinnitus. http://www.ata.org/sites/default/files/TinnitusToday-Spring2018.pdf#page=40

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July 13, 2017

Article for the International Tinnitus Journal on the correlation between visual snow and tinnitus. http://www.tinnitusjournal.com/articles/visual-snow-syndrome-and-its-relationship-to-tinnitus.html

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May 8, 2017

Learn what data science is and why it’s important in my Voxxed Q&A. Note: The following is a copy of ...

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May 1, 2017

The high correlation of visual snow patients reporting tinnitus suggests that they may share a common underlying pathophysiology. Click here ...

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January 9, 2017

As a life-long geek, I’ve dreamed of attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) since I first heard about it in the late ...

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December 4, 2016

In the book Clean Code, Robert C. Martin (aka. Uncle Bob), asks several software-industry experts to define what clean codemeans to them. He ...

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November 3, 2016

The R programming language is a popular tool for creating data visualizations. Its interactive programming capabilities and powerful data visualization ...

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October 31, 2016

An Observation In the past, it was difficult to gather reliable data about our software development process without interfering with ...

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August 19, 2016

As I speak at various conferences and events, I often get asked for my recommendations on the top books I’ve ...

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July 22, 2016

I recently read three books that have had a pretty profound impact on my day-to-day life. The first book was Essentialism: ...

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July 11, 2016

The data refinery is a design pattern for providing data to multiple consumers in a Big Data context. The pattern ...

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May 1, 2016

I received my Microsoft HoloLens Dev Kit a couple weeks ago. Since then I’ve been exploring the device, the apps, and development ...

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April 17, 2016

Once a year, I’m invited to judge the Computation Thinking Competition at my alma mater, Iowa State University. The event is a ...

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April 11, 2016

My first Pluralsight article How to Start Programming in R was published today. If you’re interested in learning R, this ...

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February 3, 2016

I’ve spent many hours during my career writing unit tests for classes that use data tables in .NET applications. In ...

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November 23, 2015

R is a statistical programming language that has become very popular in recent years for data analysis. Its interactive programming ...

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April 27, 2015

I’m a big fan of Clean Architecture patterns, practices, and principles. One of the Clean Architecture practices that I’m particularly fond of ...

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January 1, 2014

In 2005 Martin Fowler attended a workshop on enterprise software development where he and the other workshop attendees came up with and ...

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