Building an app on Streamlit.io

Thanks to Mark Craddock I discovered Streamlit.io that basically enables the people writing machine learning code in python to show the charts, diagrams and tables not on the console but on a web page, so others can easily read the information. I have some code done in Google Colab and it’s great environment for getting … Read more

Year 6, Q2 Elevate the Wardley Maps Course

This quarter I want to focus on the evolution of the course “Acelera tu aprendizaje”. This course started in 2022 teaching during 2 sessions during 2 hours each, with some videos and an exercise between sessions. This format has been tested and has good things and bad things. In December I was thinking about the … Read more

LLMs are the new version of nuclear power.

I continue reading about LLMs and the potential power it has. And I have the feeling the LLMs are the new version of Nuclear Power. I would summarize the current situation as this: Many people is astonished about the potential of these technologies, but almost nobody is thinking about the consequences of it (few people). … Read more

Falcon strategy OpenAI over Google

This is an overview of the strategic pattern named Falcon, proposed by Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh on their book Patterns of Strategy. Warning: I’m experimenting here. Any constructive feedback is welcome. I will be using the OpenAI Vs Google for this exercise. This topic is already being commented here: Microsoft, Google, Chat GPT, Bard … Read more

Micro-payments impact in Manufacturing

On the manufacturing research group I’m engaged we are looking for 3 things: One of the ideas that came to me is the impact of the micro-payments in consumer environments and how this phenomenon that started in Internet is jumping into the physical world. Sorry but I only have questions: Related to the manufacturing industry: … Read more

LLMs and jobs good or bad?

During the last months there is a great debate about the disruption of LLMs (large language models) and the impact on many fields. One of these fields is jobs. You can read comments in basically 2 directions: Ok, good, on this context, I do not how to react, I still have not a strong opinion … Read more

Supply chain director, experiment

Warning! the interesting part comes after the list, on next I looked for job descriptions for a “Supply Chain Director” role focused on Manufacturing in United States. This is the list of responsibilities which are requested: Context and purpose This is an experiment related to a research we are doing about manufacturing industry. Warning: as … Read more

The machine stops

This is a science fiction novel published by Edward Morgan Forster in 1909. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a ‘cell’, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. It’s … Read more

Twitter, recommendation engine approach

Twitter, as any social media environment has a mechanism to decide what content recommends you. Right now, if you are using Twitter and are under “For you” tab, the content shown is recommended by an engine. In the original map I have from Twitter this capability is shown here: The recommendation code will be opened … Read more