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A little while ago, during our weekly Tampa IIBA certification study group meeting (you should join us!), someone asked me whether the business analyst or the project manager makes certain decisions. The specific question had to do with potential guidance … Continue reading →

These talks were recommended by Chase O’Neill, a very talented colleague from my time at Universal, and proved to be highly interesting. I’ve thought about things like this through my career, and they’re obviously more germane given where things are … Continue reading →

I gave this talk on computer simulation at the Mensa Regional Gathering in Orlando on Sunday, January 20, 2019. The slides for the presentation are here. I give a brief description of the major types of simulation and discuss some … Continue reading →

I finally finished working through the exercises in the LearnYouNode suite put out by NodeSchool, which organizes events in cities all over the country. They have a whole pile of different self-directed workshops. It was decent enough introduction to the … Continue reading →

In 2004 or 2005 I attended a series of meetings where I helped do traffic projections for this new port of entry (and bridge) at Calais, ME. I also built and ran models of different port designs using the BorderWizard … Continue reading →

Model Predictive Control comes in different forms, but all variations work in roughly the same way. Traditional forms of control act on signals derived from a currently-determined (usually by sensors) state and the difference between that state and the desired … Continue reading →

I wrote last Wednesday’s piece to provide a beginning context to show how developers should be aware of the underlying activities in their target environments. I plan to do a couple of posts discussing how much duty cycle (CPU activity) … Continue reading →