Sample size

When work inking as a architect in business we are often tasked to do statistics on the overall market. Instead of doing it ourself we often fall back in using surveys from an analyst firm. The point here is however that usually all these endeavours come up with a flawed outcome. Usually all statistics gathered … Continue reading Sample size

Metatheory and enterprise-architecture

“What’s the theory of enterprise-architecture?”, a colleague asked the other day. “Is there any kind of coherent and consistent theory behind it that holds it all together?” Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: yes. Or sort-of, rather. Both no and yes

Probabilistic Modeling, Predictive Analytics & Intelligent Design from Multiple Medical Knowledge Sources

Bioingine.com; Probabilistic Modeling and Predictive Analytics Platform for A.I driven Deep Learning to discover Pathways from Clinical Data to Suggested Ontology for Pharmacogenomics; achieving Personalization and Driving Precision Medicine. Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 11th International Conference, DILS 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 9-10, 2015, Proceedings The Feature Diagram from the book above:- Pharmacogenomic knowledge […]

The KPI misery

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) or any other similar packaged goods such as Critical Success Factors (CSF) are often nice concepts as long as they do not escape into the real world. Let me start with my own misery. For commuting to work I use the train between Oxford and London via Reading. My station is … Continue reading The KPI misery

Clinical Decisions and Empirical Dilemma :- Priori Knowledge independent of Experience vs Posterior Knowledge dependent on Experience

Leon Festinger, American social psychologist, is credited to have developed the idea around Cognitive Dissonance Bioingine.com employs algorithmic approach based on Hyperbolic Dirac Net that allows inference nets that are a general graph (GC), including cyclic paths, thus surpassing the limitation in the Bayes Net that is traditionally a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) by definition. The Bioingine.com approach thus more fundamentally […]

Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 373

This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 373, features Tom’s essay on #NotImplementedNoValue and a Form Follows Function installment on simplistic mental models. Tom and I discuss my post “All models may be wrong, but it’s not a contest to see how wrong you can be”, talking about cognitive […]