Blog introduction (2012)

Hello and welcome to my personal website here @ morganbye.net .com

This website serves three continuing purposes. Initially this was started as a pet project, I have always been an inquisitive sort especially when it comes to technology. However, I found myself in a position where I knew very little about the workings of websites, despite using them on a daily basis. So, being the “why not?” sort that I am I decided to expand my knowledge. And what better way to learn than through a project of your own?

You are currently reading the results of this on-going project.

I think a certain amount of self promotion in this modern world is a nice thing to have. Increasing it’s becoming more and more of a necessity, whether it be interest from future employers, competitors or just nosy individuals. This modern world finds itself heading in a direction where communication between one’s social network is ever increasing.

With the ever increasing popularity of social networking and microblogging sites cataloging everything in one’s life soon privacy will be gone, but why not? If someone wants to know what music I listen to, then let them, it’s only when this knowledge is used for commercial gain do I have issue.

For this reason I think it is a worthwhile investment to have one centre for your online life and persona, from this location all friends and family can share in my experiences as well as thoughts and feelings.

Finally, as I progress through my professional research career and PhD I hope to keep updating my research section with helpful hints and maybe simple introductions to more advanced topics. Whilst currently this still remains on the drawing board as a pipe-dream, there are noble intentions to give back to the education community.

So please take a minute or two to explore the site. I hope that you enjoy it, so as to justify the hours that have been ploughed into it over the months. Hey, you might even learn something.

Thanks for reading.

Morgan


This page previously appeared on morganbye.net[^1][^2]

[^1:] http://morganbye.net/2012/01/a-short-welcome-and-introduction) [^2:] http://morganbye.net/uncategorized/2012/01/a-short-welcome-and-introduction/

What distinguishes you from other developers?

I've built data pipelines across 3 continents at petabyte scales, for over 15 years. But the data doesn't matter if we don't solve the human problems first - an AI solution that nobody uses is worthless.

Are the robots going to kill us all?

Not any time soon. At least not in the way that you've got imagined thanks to the Terminator movies. Sure somebody with a DARPA grant is always going to strap a knife/gun/flamethrower on the side of a robot - but just like in Dr.Who - right now, that robot will struggle to even get out of the room, let alone up some stairs.

But AI is going to steal my job, right?

A year ago, the whole world was convinced that AI was going to steal their job. Now, the reality is that most people are thinking 'I wish this POC at work would go a bit faster to scan these PDFs'.

When am I going to get my self-driving car?

Humans are complicated. If we invented driving today - there's NO WAY IN HELL we'd let humans do it. They get distracted. They text their friends. They drink. They make mistakes. But the reality is, all of our streets, cities (and even legal systems) have been built around these limitations. It would be surprisingly easy to build self-driving cars if there were no humans on the road. But today no one wants to take liability. If a self-driving company kills someone, who's responsible? The manufacturer? The insurance company? The software developer?