AI Interview

Posted on March 30, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Kurt Cagle: “I’ve been interviewed hundreds of times over my career for work-related positions, consultations, and podcasts. An interview is a conversation. It is a chance to get to know the people you might be working with, to assess the company, to find out more about the kind of personalities that would be around me. It’s a chance to network, make new contacts, and explore alternative ways of working together, for profit or otherwise, in the future.

An AI interview tells me that the people involved were unwilling to take the time even to have a conversation. It means that their primary driving motivation is financially driven rather than driven by a real problem to be solved, that they view people as being interchangeable as long as they find the necessary minimal skillset, and that they fear exposure to the public. There is no way that the business culture at such a company would be anything but toxic.” Link

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New book about Business Decision Modeling

Posted on March 28, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jacob Feldman just published a new book “Business Decision Modeling with OpenRules” available from Amazon. “This book is oriented to subject matter experts who want to build operational decision models for their business environments. No programming skills are required. The objective is to help readers learn quickly how to apply the decision modeling approach to building real-world decision models. This book will guide readers through practical examples, starting with simple business problems and moving to complex ones. Reading the book, you will end up with a deep understanding of practical decision-modeling techniques. You will learn how to apply Business Rules, Machine Learning, and Optimization tools to build your domain-specific decision models.” Link

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Java continues to perform well 

Posted on March 28, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Despite the predictions of doomsayers, Java is still a very relevant and clever choice for startups of any size in 2025. Especially with all the goodies just released with Java 24. Java is entirely responsible for Netflix’s success story. It still does all the heavy lifting in the backend—successfully. Link

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AI Index Reports

Posted on March 26, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI): “The mission of the AI Index is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and the general public to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field of AI. To achieve this, we track, collate, distill, and visualize data relating to artificial intelligence.” The 2025 AI Index Report is coming soon on April 7. Here are the key takeaways from the 2024 AI Index Report:

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Philippe Kahn

Posted on March 21, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stéphane Dalbera posts biographies of the most influential figures in the history of software development. Today he wrote about Philippe Kahn: “Meet Philippe Kahn – a visionary mathematician, entrepreneur, and tech industry pioneer. Best known for inventing the camera phone in 1997, Philippe has profoundly influenced technology, communication, and social media.
Born into a family of Holocaust survivors, Philippe’s resilience was forged by his mother’s bravery as a member of the French Resistance. He pursued higher education at ETH Zürich and the University of Nice, earning master’s degrees in mathematics and classical flute performance – a testament to his diverse talents.
After emigrating to Silicon Valley, Philippe bootstrapped his first company, Borland, transforming it into a software powerhouse. Under his leadership, Borland introduced groundbreaking tools like Turbo C++, Turbo Pascal, and Turbo Prolog, setting new industry standards in software development.
His philosophy emphasized software craftsmanship, quality, and customer-centricity, shaping the future of programming.” Link

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NVIDIA Open-Sources cuOpt for Decision Optimization

Posted on March 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Optimization has always been at the core of computational research, and now, a new frontier is emerging—one where open-source innovation meets GPU acceleration. COIN-OR and NVIDIA are collaborating to bring NVIDIA cuOpt, a GPU-accelerated optimization engine, into the COIN-OR open-source ecosystem. This collaboration aims to empower researchers, developers, and industry leaders with cutting-edge tools to drive breakthroughs in large-scale optimization. Link

Note that COIN and other optimization tools are also freely available to Java developers via JavaSolver and to business analysts via RuleSolver.

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Amazon Layoffs and Streamline Decision-Making

Posted on March 19, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In a surprising move, Amazon is set to lay off up to 14,000 managers by March 2025. Comments from LinkedIn: “Is this really about cost-cutting, or something bigger? Amazon is flattening its hierarchy and betting big on automation and AI-driven efficiency. What’s the real play here?

– Are they cutting bureaucracy to move faster and be more efficient?
– Is this the beginning of a leaner, AI-augmented workforce?
– Or is this just a way to appease investors / Wall St in a shaky economy?

We’ve seen this before, when companies eliminate middle management, it’s usually because they believe AI and automation can replace oversight and streamline decision-making.” Link

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Event Stream Processing by Roy Schulte

Posted on March 18, 2025 by jacobfeldman

Roy Schulte published a two-part series about Event Stream Processing (ESP) today. Part 1 provides context, defines terms, and explains how AI helps ESP. Part 2 explains how ESP helps AI by enabling streaming data pipelines.

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Is there a perfect programming language?

Posted on March 17, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stephane Dalbera: “Faced with every crusade proclaiming that a particular language is the miracle cure that will save the world of computing, I always remind people that if we ever reach the point where only the strengths and weaknesses of languages remain to be addressed to achieve “perfection,” software engineering will have made more progress than it has in the past fifty years.

We often fight the wrong battle when we focus on language issues, probably because they are the easiest to debate and where there can be a significant emotional involvement.” Link

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Hype as a Service (HaaS)

Posted on March 16, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Stephen Klein’s “announcement” about a new highly popular business model Link

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