Monthly Archives: December 2021

Most in Demand Languages for 2022

If you are interested in software engineering from a meta trends perspective, here are the most popular programming languages by GitHub repository activity: You may find more interesting trends in this new Medium’s article “Most in Demand Programming Software Development … Continue reading

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Best Holiday Wishes

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all members, readers, and friends of the Decision Management Community! Here is a musical present from Dr. Alan Fish: Listen

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Connecting the Dots

If someone gives us a collection of points, how should we connect them? Should we try to pair them up? Should we try to join them together to form a single loop? Should we try something else? And once we’ve … Continue reading

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About the Log4j Vulnerability

This week many organizations went through the scare caused by critical security vulnerability of commonly used Apache Log4j Java-based logging utility. Shortly after Apache announcement attackers in the wild began exploiting the Log4j vulnerability, prompting government cybersecurity institutions worldwide, including … Continue reading

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DecisionCAMP Session “Learning Executable Constraint Models” on Dec 15, 2021

The next DecisionCAMP session will be held on Wed, December 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST (New York Time). Title: “Learning Executable Constraint Models from Positive and Negative Examples” Presenter: Helmut Simonis, Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics in Ireland. … Continue reading

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Guiding mathematical intuition with AI

It is clear that intuition plays an important role in elite performance in many human pursuits. In this work the authors demonstrate a framework for mathematicians to use machine learning that has led to mathematical insight across two distinct disciplines: … Continue reading

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Christmas Challenge 2021

2022 is around the corner, and Santa again creates a plan for his elves to determine how reindeer will pull his sleigh. Our Challenge Dec-2021 is based on Santa’s plan described by Mike Shenk: Twas the night before Christmas, and at … Continue reading

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