Long Live LLMs! The Central Knowledge System of Analogy

Situation Over the past few months there has been a trend to move from referring to "large language models" (LLM) to just "language models". The reason for that is the recognition that small language models (SLM) have clear advantages under certain situations. So "language model" is inclusive of both. And of course, as soon as … Continue reading Long Live LLMs! The Central Knowledge System of Analogy

Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP

Complex Event Processing AI doesn’t emerge from a hodgepodge of single-function models—a decision tree that predicts churn, or a neural net that classifies an image, which only see one quality of the world. The AGI-level intelligence that's being frantically chased requires massive, organized integration of learned rules. That is, a large, heterogenous number of composed … Continue reading Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP

Analytics Maturity Levels and “Enterprise Intelligence”

This blog revisits the traditional "analytics maturity model," providing a new perspective from the book "Enterprise Intelligence." The four analytics maturity levels: Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive, and Prescriptive, are explained along with their impact in the AI era. The blog emphasizes the importance of understanding these levels and their role in enterprise intelligence.

Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status

Everything we do towards achieving goals involves costs - sacrifice, investment (a positive way to look at it). We purposefully put things we already have (time, money, our career) to be consumed or at risk in the hope of achieving a goal. For the sake of this short blog, I'll call that investment "pain". I present this blog … Continue reading Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status

The Magic of the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Prelude If businesses were people, they would lumber about in a vaguely purposeful manner like zombies. That's due to the top-down, military-style hierarchies of modern corporations that result in integration of information only at the top and only to a limited extent below. Imagine Gepetto the CEO (external puppet master) of Pinocchio. Pinocchio is managed through strings from … Continue reading The Magic of the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Cluster Drift

A deficiency I notice in practically every implementation of clustering (segmentation) is the snapshot mentality. For example, a vendor of a product would segment their customers in an attempt to isolate the ones who would be most likely to buy their product. This captures a snapshot of the groups of similar customers right now, but it doesn't … Continue reading Cluster Drift

Find and Measure Relationships in Your OLAP Cubes

Huge strides in the value proposition of BI will come by jumping the chasm from simply reporting on data provided by the integrated view of our enterprise to discovering novel and perhaps counter-intuitive relationships hidden in that data. With the discovery of such relationships, we can burst outside of the box with novel strategies for growth and novel resolutions of problems. … Continue reading Find and Measure Relationships in Your OLAP Cubes