Scaling Artificial Intelligence A zettabyte is 270 bytes or 1 billion terabytes, which is 1 billion gigabytes History of Data Six years ago we commented to a Webinar audience, “2,300 years ago, Macedonian information workers gathered all the knowledge in the world into the great Library of Alexandria. Its 200,000 books were made available to…
A huge percentage of our customers also use various levels of math in their Word documents, everything from simple sales tax, to extremely complex risk analytics, financings of all types, appraisals, secondary market debt purchases, and commercial construction quotations to name just a few. The big takeaway, pun intended, is Excel. With any of our…
Pro Bono and the Guardianship Season It was 11 years ago that Jim Calloway, then as now Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program and Senior Guru of all things legal management, suggested that the soon-to-be formed TheFormTool, LLC seemed to be ideally structured to actively support consumer-oriented pro bono legal services firms.…
To make our Diagnostic Portal even more useful and easier to use, we’ve added an interactive map to the Portal’s home page. The map is a logical graphic with paths that describe symptoms and clickable hotspots that allow a user to click to the appropriate solution. For those who prefer a graphical user interface, the…
Whatever the perspective, whether as a professional, a consumer, an economist,there is insufficient value to continue the practice of hourly billing The reasons to avoid it are legion and persuasive, but for this audience the most telling argument is that working for an hourly wage prevents the accumulation of wealth while it encourages an excessive…
To celebrate the sons of one of our team members leading their team to a 2nd Place finish at the 2022 State Cross Country Championships we were tempted to yell, “Set ‘em up for all, barkeep!” for the thousands of adult attendees. However, more conservative thinkers suggested a more constructive approach: We should share…
It was in January 2021, 18 months ago, that we first forecast massive inflation was coming our way created by runaway use of federal printing presses flooding the world with new paper dollars. Whether it is called “quantitative easing”or “printing money”, we predicted sudden and massive devaluing of the currency. In other words, inflation. Historic…