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Agentic Medical Services

Posted on April 4, 2026 by jacobfeldman

This April-2026 Challenge aims to explore how LLMs orchestrate rule-based decision services. It describes three loosely coupled medical services: Your LLM should use these three services (instead of its own general “knowledge”) to determine a therapy for a patient with … Continue reading →

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Peter Norvig about LLMs

Posted on March 23, 2026 by jacobfeldman

In December 2009, Peter Norvig—then Director of Research at Google—delivered his lecture “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data,” at University College Cork. The alternative title was “Billions of Trivial Data Points Can Lead to Understanding.” I was fortunate not only to … Continue reading →

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Amazement Trumps Reason

Posted on December 5, 2025 by jacobfeldman

Vincent Lextrait, the founder of METASPEX, published an article with this name. It is not about AI, but as Vincent mentioned, “I do not think I need to say what inspired that post.” This is a good story with personal … Continue reading →

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One More Time About Declarativity

Posted on November 23, 2025 by jacobfeldman

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Solutions for Oct-2025 Challenge “Decision with two objectives”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by jacobfeldman

DMCommunity.org has already received five solutions for its Oct-2025 Challenge, which asks to help a web designer to select certain website features while satisfying budget and value constraints. What makes this simple problem interesting is that it involves two conflicting … Continue reading →

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Making Operational Repetitive Decisions Under Uncertainty

Posted on October 1, 2025 by jacobfeldman

While just completed DecisionCAMP-2025 was dominated by the integrated use of Generative AI (LLMs) and Symbolic AI (Rules, Machine Learning, Optimization), in my closing notes I concentrated on the topic of making repetitive operational decisions in the real-world, frequently uncertain environments. In this article, I … Continue reading →

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Integrating Relational Databases and Decision Intelligence Platforms

Posted on August 26, 2025 by jacobfeldman

This topic has been of interest to many rule engine vendors and practitioners for years. There was an interesting discussion about an integrated use of Business Rules and DB a year ago: https://lnkd.in/ecych49r What do you think today about the … Continue reading →

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Not everything needs reinvention

Posted on August 10, 2025 by jacobfeldman

“Sometimes innovation is just panic dressed as strategy.Sometimes marketing is just noise to distract from a lack of meaning.Sometimes chasing growth, valuations, market share etc. can make you forget why you started in the first place.” https://lnkd.in/eDXuiNvS

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“Decision Intelligence is AI for Grownups”

Posted on July 19, 2025 by jacobfeldman

This phrase is often used to highlight how Decision Intelligence (DI) represents a more mature, pragmatic, and business-focused application of artificial intelligence. I asked Copilot why some people describe DI that way. See the answers at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7352416233801060352/

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DecisionCAMP-2025 Program has been published!

Posted on June 27, 2025 by jacobfeldman

This year, we received an overwhelming number of submissions from Decision Intelligence professionals, and most of them look good and intriguing. DecisionCAMP Organization Committee accepted 22 submissions, and to accommodate them, we decided to add an extra day to our … Continue reading →

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