“The evidence demands a verdict.” What a great phrase! I hear it quite often on one of the podcasts I follow. The words “evidence” and “verdict” imply an association with legal texts, but it also applies to many other situations. Let’s Define the Phrase and Discuss its Meaning In its simplest form, “The evidence demands…
History remembers those who played by the rules—but it doesn’t always do justice to those who shattered them. I introduced the section Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels to tell the stories of the people who pushed boundaries, broke molds, and defied convention, whether for better or worse. These are the figures who refused to blend in,…
I’ve been fascinated by the concept of lens compression for about six months. I wanted to learn not just what it is and how it works. More importantly, I wanted to learn how I might use it in my photography. My biggest challenge was finding the time and location to demonstrate of it with my…
My church places a strong value on family history. Not just genealogy, but the stories of our family. Writing them, telling them, reading them, remembering them. A study conducted by psychologists Robyn Fivush and Marshall Duke at Emory University showed that children who were familiar with the stories of their families demonstrated greater resilience than…
Imagine you’re scrolling through your email and notice that most of the junk mail—those too-good-to-be-true lottery winnings and suspicious “urgent” messages—never even reach your inbox. You don’t think twice about it, but behind the scenes, something powerful is at work: supervised learning.Your email provider has been trained on countless examples of real emails versus spam,…
I know you use computers, because whatever type of device you’re reading this on, it’s some type of computer. We’ve gotten so accustomed to them that we have stopped being amazed by them. I have several friends — of varying ages — who prefer not to use digital devices anymore than absolutely necessary, and let…
Where is your life “going?” We tend to think of our lives in terms of roads or paths. I think part of it may be due to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” but there are so many metaphors that apply the concept of traveling a road to living our lives that we can’t ignore…
Mary Ellen Pleasant fits all the descriptions of “radicals,” “renegades,” and “rebels” in a fascinating way. I love telling the stories of courageous women. When I read that she said of herself, “I wonder what I could have been with an education,” I knew I had to know more. In all my research on her,…
Do you use predictive analytics? (Hint: yes, you almost certainly do.) Predictive analytics are the force behind streaming recommendations in your movie and music apps, weather forecasts, and personalized shopping recommendations. Predictive analytics is a way to use information about the past and present to guess what might happen in the future. It looks at…
Are you a digital packrat? Most of us are, and it’s easy to become one. Digital files don’t take up physical space, so we’re not tripping over them walking across the room. But if you can’t find a file you know you saved “somewhere,” you might be a digital packrat.Good file management can save you…
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