AI Basics

I have spent the last 15 years working in digital information retrieval. I remember the days when you had to be a “Google Fu” master, using Boolean operators and exact keyword matches just to find a simple troubleshooting guide. If you are wondering how AI helps improve online search, the short answer is that it

I remember reviewing smartphones back in 2015 when “smart” just meant you could check email and play Angry Birds. Back then, if you took a bad photo, it was just a bad photo. Fast forward to late 2025. I’ve been testing the latest flagship devices from Google, Samsung, and Apple for the last three months,

By Data Scientist & Analytics Consultant | 10+ Years Experience Ten years ago, I sat in a boardroom trying to explain to a CEO why his “gut feeling” about sales trends was going to cost the company millions. He pointed to a graph going up; I pointed to a dataset that said the underlying customer

By Computer Vision Engineer | 10+ Years in Deployment When I wrote my first image classification script back in 2014, I thought I was a genius because my code could tell the difference between a banana and an apple. Two days later, I moved the webcam into a room with yellow lighting, and suddenly, my

If I had a dollar for every time a client or a stakeholder used “AI” and “Machine Learning” interchangeably in a meeting, I’d have retired to a private island by now. As someone who has spent the last decade building data pipelines and training models—from simple regression scripts to massive deep learning networks—I know the

I still remember the first time I tried to build a “smart” stock predictor back in 2015. I threw a massive Neural Network at a simple spreadsheet of historical prices. The result? It predicted the market would crash every single Tuesday. Why? Because I used a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I was using the

I remember the first time I tried to read a research paper on artificial intelligence. I got about two paragraphs in before I was hit with a wall of calculus and terms like “stochastic gradient descent.” I closed the tab and went back to checking email. It felt like an exclusive club where the password

I still remember the first time I tried to read a technical paper on artificial intelligence. I stared at the screen, squinting at a diagram that looked less like a computer program and more like a plate of spaghetti thrown against a wall. It was intimidating. And if you’re reading this, you’ve probably felt that