Apr 28, 2016
New Balloon Project
I've talked about it quite a bit, and even mentioned it here, but the kids and I are planning to build a space robot. We've wanted to do this for several years,…
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Apr 26, 2016
Advice for Deploying Agile Analytics
Lisa Morgan at InformationWeek writes about agile analytics: Organizations have potential access to more data today than they've ever had before, but they're not always aware of what they have inside their…
Apr 25, 2016
Chernobyl's Liquidators
At this moment, thirty years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, suffered a "catastrophic power increase," commonly called a meltdown, that killed 31 people. This post is not to…
Apr 24, 2016
Watch my Ignite Talk on Stormwater Management
On Thursday, I had the joy of speaking at Ignite again, this time at Ignite Baltimore 18. I spoke about stormwater management and how we need to fix the stormwater management fee…
Apr 22, 2016
Notes on the Variscite DART-MX6 GPIO Interface
Because of reasons, I have a Variscite VAR-DTK-MX6 evaluation kit for the DART-MX6 system on module (SOM) sitting on my desk at home. It's a neat little board. The DART-MX6 is small,…
Apr 21, 2016
Coping with Disaster at Springer
For those of you who don't know, Springer will be publishing my new book on flood insurance pretty much any minute now. In fact, it is already on SpringerLink. And that's kind…
Apr 20, 2016
A Love Note to Kermit
Occasionally, I post some pictures and notes on hardware projects we have going on in the Cybernetics Laboratory, which is to say, my desk. One thing that always comes up a program…
Apr 18, 2016
And We All Shine On
We like to think of the stars as these static things in the sky. The planets, even got their name from the fact they were not static. The word "planet" is from…
Apr 14, 2016
TCP and IP
I've been doing the An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IOT) specialization on Coursera. One question asks about the difference between TCP and IP. This is my expanded essay based…
Apr 13, 2016
Listen to me talk data science on KFNX's TechTalk
:::figure{src="/assets/img/news/IMITTLogoL.webp" alt="TechTalk logo" align="right" width="100" link="https://imitechtalk.wordpress.com/"} ::: I was the guest on Tom D’Auria TechTalk on KFNX in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon, where I talked about how data science is bringing artificial…
Apr 12, 2016
Political Risk and Export Finance
Here's a great article on export credit. Following the fight over the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which I discussed here in 2014, here in 2015, here again in 2015, and…