Parents Still Matter in the Machine Era
A line in the April 2026 issue of IEEE Computer stopped me mid-read. N. Kshetri and J. Voas point out that for earlier generations, parents, teachers, clergy, and professors were the primary …
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AI
LLMs, agentic systems, prompt engineering, and AI in payments
Adaptive Filters and Stochastic Gradient Descent: One Update Rule, Two Vocabularies
Modern AI is often framed as a clean break from classical engineering. For anyone who has worked in adaptive signal processing, that framing is misleading. The mathematical spine of stochastic …
The Hidden Mathematics of Multi-Agent AI: Why Agent Communication Does Not Scale Linearly
A simple counting formula explains why fully connected multi-agent systems become hard to control long before they become impressive.
Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Understanding the Trajectory Formula
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) asks a different question from classical RL: instead of assuming a reward function and learning a policy, you observe expert behavior and infer what reward would …
Markov Decision Processes: The Mathematical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning
The Markov Decision Process (MDP) is the standard formal object for sequential decision-making under uncertainty. It separates problem definition — states, actions, how the world evolves, what you …
Edge AI: Why Intelligence Is Moving to the Boundary — and What It Takes to Get There
There is a quiet architectural shift happening beneath the surface of the AI conversation. While the public discourse fixates on data center GPU clusters and trillion-parameter models, a different …
I Spent Years on Adaptive Filters. I Was Already Training Neural Networks.
I spent years implementing LMS-based equalizers and echo cancellers in telecommunications. Only later did I fully appreciate what I had been doing mathematically: the same family of update rules that …
Feasibility Assessment: Q-Learning Suitability for Organizational Decision Systems
Q-learning for production decision systems: when tabular or deep Q-networks (DQN) make sense, state–action limits, stationarity, exploration cost, convergence risks—and when to say no. Reinforcement …
Syntactic Fluency, Semantic Fragility: Why AI Masters Form but Stumbles on Meaning
Your favourite AI can compose a flawless sonnet, generate syntactically perfect ISO 8583 messages, and produce compilable C++ on the first attempt. Ask it whether that ISO message actually makes …
Why Parents Still Matter in the AI Era
For most of us, the first things we learned did not come from a feed or a model. They came from people. Parents taught us how to speak, how to behave, how to apologize, how to tell right from wrong. …