Taylor is a staff software engineer at Aptible, where he builds Managed AI services for a HIPAA-compliant PaaS. He spent seven years leading engineering teams at CloudBolt, Heroku, and Salesforce before deciding he missed writing code more than he missed expense reports. He fancies the outdoors and is grateful that Portland, OR has so much of it.
WARNING TO THE HUMAN READER Except for this section and some prompt snippets at the end, this article was generated by ChatGPT. Yes, including the title. I groomed it, I biased it, I reset the chat numerous times to get a fresh “brain” from OpenAI, but it generated 99.9% of the content, and it was surprisingly pessismistic about itself on its own. Do you still trust our advice? After all, as my…
👋 Hi there. In May, I decided to stop being a manager. Now I’m an engineer again. One of my emails this morning looked something like this: This was my choice, no-one else’s, and I was not pressured into it. I’m staying on The Team because I love it here, and I’m excited about our next chapter together. The gist is, $big_scary_incident reminded me how much I love troubleshooting, research+writing…
Meta Presented at: PICMET 2016 PDF on pdx.edu Google Scholar IEEE Abstract: The development of emergent technologies carries with it ethical issues and risks. We review ways to better manage the ethical issues and risks of one emerging technology: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Depending on how AI’s development is managed, it may have beneficial and/or deleterious effects. The processing capacity…
UPDATE 2014-04-13 David Fannin built on this work and came up with some Arduino code that interfaces between the VX-8DR and a Ublox GPS module. You can see more information at his project’s github page . Incompatible, Proprietary, and Non-Standard Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx Serial Interface Yaesu VX-8DR Serial Interface Sending GPS NMEA Strings to the Yaesu VX-8DR The NMEA 0183 Standard VX-8DR NMEA…
I gave a guest lecture in Dr Thomas Dieterich’s class on Linguistics and Cognitive Science at PSU on The Visual Pattern Recognition of Reading. To that end, I released the paper I wrote in 2008 on the topic, as well as my slides and notes, into the Creative Commons. FWIW. Evidence and Consequences of Feature Detection in The Visual Pattern Recognition of Reading by Taylor J. Meek is licensed under…
UPDATE 2014-05-07: Aaron Bertrand put this topic to bed here . Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has no SPLIT(InputString,Delimiter) function. For example, if you had some CSV (comma-separated-values) data like ‘Toyota,Tacoma,2009,$20000’, there is no built-in way in Transact-SQL to split that up into its discrete parts. There are other solutions out there that attempt to split this data up for you into…
In 2008, as a project for my Applied Linguistics inventory course, I looked at the possibility of automating Praat to find and map the vowel inventory of an individual. The files below represent the entirety of that work, which was inconclusive, though it represents one method of extracting formants from Praat into Excel. Files: Semi-Automated Formant Extraction with Praat (PDF) Appendix: Formant…
What to do when your Laptop or LCD screen/laptop screen goes dark, black, red, orange, or any other annoying color. UPDATE 2014-05-07: I wrote this a long time ago, and there are much clearer instructions (with pictures) elsewhere. Reader be warned. UPDATE 2004-09-23: I have actually replaced my own bulb some time ago! A while after posting this, I found a source for CCFL lamps– Mouser Electronics…