Andrew C. Oliver
Columnist
Andrew C. Oliver is manager of technical enablement at Lucidworks, a provider of enterprise search solutions.
11 signs you’re writing great code
No matter what language or technology stack you use, if you can describe your code with these adjectives, good code should follow
How to get started with AI—before it’s too late
Put these five prerequisites in place so you can actually execute on your artificial intelligence strategy
Sensors and machine learning: How applications can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste
All five senses take the form of some kind of sensor and some kind of mathematical algorithm, usually a supervised machine learning algorithm and a model
The programming languages you should learn now
if you're in the market for a new lingua franca, what you choose next might be influenced by your current language of choice
Arduino plus 3D printing: The next big developer wave
3D printing will likely change manufacturing and even how products reach the home. Meanwhile, Arduino devices make electronic creation accessible to anyone with a laptop computer
Introduction to Learning to Rank (LTR) search analysis
The technique can fix search results based on user preferences or implicit behavior
Artificial general intelligence (AGI): The steps to true AI
Early AI research tackled the challenge the wrong way, but there’s now progress around machine intuition, unsupervised learning, and creativity
A quick-and-dirty way to predict human behavior
The Alternating Least Squares (ALS) technique is fundamental to many machine learning applications. Here’s how it works
How classification and clustering work: the easy way
People are often confused about what these are and what the difference is. So here is an explanation using the old-fashioned way: in an Excel spreadsheet
The future of coding is about making real things
As AI and manufacturing come together through 3D printing, we coders will come in charge of how things are actually made
