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Infinite AI Series A Investment
Company-building through a capital milestone, and the kind of ownership decisions that shape what a startup can become.
Adopting Release Management
A practical look at delivery systems and release discipline, with the operator habits that keep teams moving.
How to Build Software: Machine Learning and Object Detection
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A Review of Amazon Prime Now
I had been wanting to try Prime Now, Amazon's 2 hour delivery service, for the past few months and their offer of a $10 credit for first time customers in the weeks leading up to J...
How to Build Software: Accounting Fraud Detection
I've gotten several questions on how you might implement Benford's Law, which was a previous post I wrote. If you haven't read it and you aren't familiar, you'll need to look it ov...
Stumptown Coffee is Available in Indiana!
I used to get Stumptown all the time in Seattle and I still do whenever I'm back there. It is great coffee and a great atmosphere, so it's been nice to see them expanding around th...
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Uncaught TypeError[:] Cannot read property 'addEventListener' of null
I ran into this problem on the JavaScript for this website where on some pages it wasn't Fixing it is really easy. You need to perform a null check, so by wrapping the line within...
Newport Aquarium
I spent a couple of hours going through the aquarium and decided to take photos of nearly all of the exhibits since our last posting had hardly any photos of the aquariums at all,...
Wheat Crust Pizza Recipe
Crust Ingredients 3 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour 1 1/2 cup of hot water 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon active dry yeast 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon honey 1 teaspoon...
The Best Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe
Ingredients 5 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar 4 Tbsp Olive Oil 3 Cloves of Garlic (a bulb is typically 10 16 cloves) Pinch of Salt Pinch of Pepper Pinch of Sugar Directions Put all ingredien...
Are the CISA, CISM and CISSP Certifications Worth It?
Overview These are considered among the top three certifications relating to security and information systems that are available. I passed, on my first attempts, the CISA and CISM...
My First Look at a Tesla Model X
Today I was walking through a parking lot in Seattle and out of the corner of my eye, I saw an SUV and thought that it looked like the Tesla Model X. Then, seeing the Tesla emblem...
Hawaii Vacation 2016
After leaving Infinite AI, I needed a relaxing vacation. This was exactly what we needed. We booked an ocean view room at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel for our visit, this being ou...
Ke-awa-iki Beach
This was a very fun hike around a nearly deserted back of both white and black sand. History has it that this beach results from the 1859 Mauna Loa eruption where lava flowed for 3...
Blue Dragon Restaurant (Waimea, Hawaii)
The place was great: outdoors, delicious food, fun drinks and live music. Their "Blue Dragon Seared Fish" was awesome, which is their daily catch on Sriracha mashed potatoes with "...
Pololu Valley
The trail begins at the very end of a highway that just sort of dead ends, to the bewilderment of us and everyone else. Everyone just sort of parks on both sides wherever they can...
Amazing Pizza in Hawaii at Pau Pizza (Waimea, Hawaii)
This was perhaps the best pizza I have ever eaten. Lots of people say it is amazing, so we had to try it ourselves. They do something with the dough and the way it is baked. We ord...
Lava Lava Beach Club (Waikoloa, Hawaii)
This place is a great, casual beach bar right on the ocean. The tables are on sand, with the ocean not even 25 feet from you. It�s a bit hard to see, as we ate there late at night,...
Exchange Rules and Rackspace
So I received the following error today in Microsoft Outlook 2013, running Exchange 2013 via Rackspace: "One or more rules cannot be uploaded to Microsoft Exchange and have been de...
The Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey
Time to Defrost A turkey will be frozen solid when purchased, so don't forget to defrost prior to trying to cook it: 8 12 lbs = 2 Days 13 16 lbs = 3 Days 17 20 lbs = 4 Days 21 24 l...
Color Coding Cables Simplifies Computing Operations
At Infinite AI, one thing we implemented on our Computing Team that made everyone's life a lot easier was color coding all cables within the organization. From our time working on...
Newport Aquarium (2015)
As I am spending the weekend in Cincinnati, I came to the aquarium as it is one of our favorite places to go whenever I am in the city. Our primary purpose for this visit was to do...
Newport Aquarium Backstage Animal Experience (2015)
The Backstage Animal Experience was an interesting tour behind the operations at the aquarium. It is 45 minutes and costs $12 for annual passholders, with tours of the various tank...
Newport Aquarium Penguin Encounter
The Penguin Encounter was our main draw to the Newport Aquarium for this trip, as we've been wanting to do this for some time. For annual passholders, it is only $20 per person and...
21c Museum Hotel (Cincinnati)
It is an interesting concept to build a 156 room luxury hotel that revolves around an art museum. The first two floors have 8000 sqft of modern art, in a 24/7 public access art mus...
Ohio Renaissance Festival (2015)
The Ohio Renaissance Festival is an annual event on the weekends from August through October that takes place at a 30 acre, permanent village that is grown over the past 25 years o...
Market District Opening (Carmel, Indiana)
I was really excited to visit the opening of this store as Infinite AI's offices overlook it. The location started out as a wheat field several months ago and we've watched the dai...
What is the Turing Test?
The Turing test is an assessment of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior, with that behavior referenced against that of a human. The test, and hence the name, result...
Stuckey Farms (2015)
I headed over for a quick visit to Stuckey Farms. I've gone there nearly every fall since I was a little kid, as it is a fall tradition in my family. It has changed a lot over the...
Infinite AI Suite 550 Construction
One of the first things we wanted to accomplish as we started building the company was to create a fun office representing how we thought offices should be, rather than how they ar...
Infinite AI Equipment Maintenance
Our computing team was doing maintenance on the main server rack in our office today. It is truly amazing how dense computing has become from only a few years ago. You're seeing si...
What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that focuses on software having the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed to do so, essentially self learning,...
Large and Inexpensive Whiteboards
When we were building the offices for Infinite AI, we were faced with an interesting dilemma of how to have lots of space for diagraming and coding on the walls without spending a...
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
This calculation is widely used by companies to determine how effective their marketing and customer acquisition costs are, as well as determining the viability of the business for...
Infinite AI Awarded Grants from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC)
Infinite AI, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a grant by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation ("IEDC"). The IEDC will offer a grant of up to $125,000 for training th...
Infinite AI Suite 400 Temp Space
Infinite AI is building out office space in the SePro Building for our new corporate offices. As part of that lease, we negotiated temporary space on a different floor during the t...
Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
Those that know me have probably seen a similar image in my office, as it's been up there more at least the past five years. CMM is a very interesting concept with the focus of the...
Winter Mountaineering Trip to the Enchantments in Washington State
Derek and I completed a five day trip a couple of years ago in February through portions of the Enchantments. I recently came across these photos and felt compelled to share. The t...
Hello, world!
// LIFE Amazon Black Friday Deals are Awesome December 1st, 2014 Nate Clark I love Amazon. My first order was placed on December of 2000. I also love Amazon Web Services (AWS) as i...
Benford's Law
date: 2014 03 15 There is a fairly interesting phenomenon that very few people seem to be aware of, even though it's very easy to check out. If you look at the first digit of a ser...