Are you Augmenting your Intelligence or Automating your Inexperience?
In our last post, we explored the “teabag illusion”—the dangerous trap of mistaking the convenience of out-of-the-box tools for genuine competence. We established that engaging actively and learning from mistakes brings true expertise. Now, we are deep into 2026, AI has become an invisible layer across that is becoming harder and harder to avoid or…
Using Tea bags does not transform us in tea master
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and sometimes can be misinterpreted or masqueraded as expertise. We can put the kettle on and use a tea bag – it does not mean we have become tea experts. We can put a coffee capsule in the machine, and it does not mean we have become baristas.…
Regression – a very optimisation problem: let’s reduce the residues
Apparently, the noun regression means “A return to a less developed state”. In statistics, it means a “A a measure of the relation between the mean value of one variable (e.g. output) and corresponding values of other variables (e.g. time and cost)”. Basically we are trying to find a relationship or a pattern within some…
From Debt to Dividend: Harnessing Data Exhaust for Strategic Advantage
Data is far from being a plain subjects. Aeroplanes, airport, airlines captures a lot of data that support its operations. Analytical use of the data through Analysis & Intelligence & AI inform decision makers and the public about noise and use of Heathrow Airspace. However, massive amounts of unintentional, background data generated by digital activities…
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I am Pat Ryser-Welch. A data specialist (engineer and scientist) who loves maths, data, programming and their application in data-driven and symbolic AI.
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