Niklaus Wirth

Posted on January 5, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“In a sombre start to the new year, the world of computer science mourns the loss of Niklaus Wirth—a stalwart figure known for his influential contributions to programming languages, methodology, software engineering, and hardware design.” Link

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Will 75% of digital products be obsolete in 3 years?

Posted on January 2, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of data, digital or analytics products will be made obsolete, or marketplaces shut down, as “too few ‘customers’ came to use them.” Link

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Solving Decisioning Problems Sequentially over Time

Posted on January 2, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Warren Powell wrote: “I recently came to the realization that all the motivating applications of linear programming used by Dantzig were in fact fully sequential (and stochastic). Which means, you do not just solve a single linear program – you have to solve them sequentially over time, where a decision at one point in time affects what you can do the next time you solve it.” A similar dynamic approach is true for various decisioning techniques. Link

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Family Riddle

Posted on December 29, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We decided to bring back a classic family riddle as a Jan-2024 Challenge as it requires some logical thinking. It will be interesting to see what our readers could do with such a problem today when along with traditional decision intelligence tools like rule engines and constraint solvers we have new LLM-based tools (Copilot and ChatGPT). Looking forward to your solutions in 2024! Link

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Happy Holiday Season and Joyous New Year!

Posted on December 24, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Here is a musical greeting from Dr. Alan Fish

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A new family of antibiotics discovered with graph deep learning

Posted on December 22, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“The discovery of novel structural classes of antibiotics is urgently needed to address the ongoing antibiotic resistance crisis… Our approach enables the deep learning-guided discovery of structural classes of antibiotics and demonstrates that machine learning models in drug discovery can be explainable, providing insights into the chemical substructures that underlie selective antibiotic activity.” Link

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Knowledge Graph in 100 Lines of Code

Posted on December 20, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Knowledge graphs are getting lots of attention at the moment, as they are the natural Yin to the Yang of LLMs, providing structured data to chat interfaces, and powering Retrieval Augmented Generation. In this article Dan Selman demonstrates how to create your own custom Knowledge Graph using Typescript, Open Source tools and the Neo4J database.

His graph represents nodes and edges for a simple movie database including nodes for movies, actors, directors and users who have rated movies. His demo using Open AI retrieves three top-rated movies semantically similar to the search query ‘Working in a boring job and looking for love’ though that exact text doesn’t appear in the summary of the movie. Link

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IBM Business Automation Manager Open Edition 9.0

Posted on December 15, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

IBM presented BAMOE 9.0 – watch a webinar on Dec 13. It introduces new IBM Decision Manager and Process Automation Manager Open Editions that replace the corresponding Red Hat products:

Tim Wuthenow explained that BAMOE is going to be a separate open-source solution that “is not a part of IBM Cloud Pak for business automation” (including IBM ODM). “BAMOE will be sold as a software support subscription, not a product license associated with it.” You may try it now. Link

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Peter Norvig about Generative AI and Programming

Posted on December 5, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Norvig, the AI Authority for the last 40 years, recently shared his vision of Software in the age of Generative AI. He talks about the history and the future of programmers, programming languages, and the software industry. Link

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Gartner: “Decision-Centric” is surpassing “Data-Driven”

Posted on December 5, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 25% of chief data and analytics officer vision statements will become “decision-centric,” surpassing “data-driven” slogans, as human decision-making behaviors are modeled to improve data and analytics. Data alone doesn’t change decision-making behaviors, unless it is used in deciding. Without a decision-centric vision, companies risk veering away from key stakeholder needs and the imperative of driving better decision making, not just better data. The commonly expected benefits of DecisionIntelligence are: ☑️ decision alignment with organizational goals and objectives ☑️ reduction of inconsistencies, better collaboration with stakeholders, and ☑️ increased acceptance of the decision by the organization. Link

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