This site under reconstruction.
During the past two weeks, I have encountered 2 articles that discusses the upcoming impact of artificial intelligence on the nature of work. In particular, both negates the common wisdom of learning STEM skills to inoculate you from the impact. Right now, someone is building a machine intelligence that will be able to do scientific…
I’m still on a book reading binge. This time it’s a book about what kind of skills we will need in the age of roboticization. About 2 years ago, I read Metaskills by Marty Neumeier. Fascinating book. He has so many gems in there. I did a series of posts on the book here. The…
These past two weeks, I spent a lot of time doing creative problem solving to get rid of empty tags in the ACA electronic submission file. Last year, I was able to submit my electronic file with a bunch of empty tags but this year, the government is not allowing the empty tags. So I…
Two weeks ago, just before I got sick, I was working on the ACA reporting and was on the third attempt to use the new data. I believe my last post on the ACA was about how I needed to finish up the review of data, and the hope was that I would have about 80%…
Since reading a couple of books and a lot of articles on automation, a couple of thoughts float around my mind. Such as: what if losing some skills is not all that bad? Or, what if the average IQ will not be sufficient in the future? Or what if the evolutionary basis of our survival was not…
I recently read something from McKinsey about automation and the future. The overall theme, which was a little too rosy, is that the automation future will happen slower than we think and that it will be a world where humans will work with machines (rather than total takeover by machines). Automation will bring about economic growth and…