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Mississippi Prohibition and the Problem of Understanding Human Reality
By John F. Groom In 1966, Mississippi became the last American state to repeal statewide prohibition of alcohol. Federal Prohibition had ended in 1933, yet Mississippi officially remained dry for anot...
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The Lost Recipes of My Childhood: Provenance Is Not Just for Great Art
By John F. Groom When people hear the word provenance, they usually think of rare and valuable objects—an Old Master painting, an ancient manuscript, a historic piece of furniture, or perhaps a famous...
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The Lady, the Unicorn, and the Lost Story: Why Provenance Matters Across Generations
By John F. Groom Six magnificent tapestries survive from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Known collectively as The Lady and the Unicorn, they are among the most celebrated works of medieval Eu...
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Technology and Writing
By John F. Groom Technology Did Not Replace Me as a Writer. It Expanded What I Could Do.When I was 23 years old, I had what most people would have considered a good, secure job. I worked in banking in...
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AI, Genetic Evolution, and the Acceleration of Intentional Adaptation
By John F. Groom Intentional Adaptation: An Adaptive StructureTheory PerspectiveFor most of the history of life on Earth, adaptation was dominated by a slow and largely unguided process: genetic evolu...
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How Has the Movement of Knowledge Changed Throughout Human History?
The Accelerating Movement of KnowledgeOne way to understand human progress is to look at how quickly knowledge moves.For much of history, knowledge traveled no faster than a person could write. Scrib...
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Will You Work Less in the AI Era?
By John F. Groom, author of Business as Sport For decades, people have predicted that technology would eventually free us from work. Every major breakthrough seems to arrive with the same promise: ma...
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Why Is My AI Project Failing?
AI projects fail for reasons that have little to do with the model. The model may be powerful. The engineering team may be competent. The business goal may be real. But if the data is weak, undocument...
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How Do I Know What Data to Collect?
One of the most common mistakes in data collection is collecting data before deciding what the data is supposed to accomplish.Organizations often gather large amounts of information simply because it...
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How Do I Compare Two Datasets?
Organizations compare datasets by looking at simple metrics such as record counts, file size, or the number of fields. Unfortunately, those measurements rarely answer the most important question:Whic...
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