{"id":791,"date":"2017-05-11T19:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/?page_id=791"},"modified":"2018-12-01T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:38:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/peregrinations\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About David Huer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/zuxian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/A_tornado_of_fish-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>My particular skill is to think through vast constellations of clues &#8211; and get paid for this.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Getting down to the deepest roots<\/strong>. In physics, what gets called&nbsp;<strong> \u201cfirst principles thinking,\u201d<\/strong> a mode of inquiry that relentlessly pursues the foundations of a problem.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_principle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_principle<\/a> With a thinking style that is analogous to the deep learning subset of Machine Learning called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/3889\/the-alarming-case-of-the-usafs-mysteriously-missing-unmanned-\">Cloud-Mind or Superswarm thinking<\/a>. + <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/f\/fuzzy-logic.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fuzzy Logic decision cloud-tree-clouds<\/a>. The former two describe the machine-learning swarms of artificial intelligence systems, and are easily imagined as the computing equivalent of constellations \u2013 clouds of butterflies; or flocks of birds diving and jinking as one; or schools of fish swimming in a bait ball: <a href=\"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/solving-wicked-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">davehuer.com\/solving-wicked-problems\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>My terms for how I think are Liquid Membraning (Anticipated Liquid Data Fields) within Fluid-Web Linkages within Cloud-Thinking. This sometimes produces uplifting experiences: the best experience of my life being to coach a teenager with twisted arms to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v-riOC8poAs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roll a whitewater kayak<\/a>, after our national whitewater slalom athletes &amp; coaches couldn&#8217;t find a way. In all fairness, it was an enormously complex challenge. The solution was to become the <a href=\"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/bcitfolio\/innoprojects\/inno-minden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anticipated orbital dynamics<\/a> of the challenge: To system-feel where he could roll; then teaching him to find the pivot \u2013 to exactly mimic the harmonics\u2019 flow-through &#8211; to learn the practicalities so he could roll himself.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing that boy grin up to his dad made the day.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier example comes from the years of my first degree (History, Guelph). Correcting date provenance of a building to 1855-56, by finding a missing document. This came from looking at 8 months of data, and having a niggling thought that the building was from the mid-1850s (not 1858-59 as extant data suggested), and then experiencing a &#8220;data cascade&#8221; leading me &#8211; like a line of lit-up fuse-cord &#8211; to a specific primary document (year, record type, sub-type) that my thinking said must be located in a particular university&#8217;s archives. One of eight that I&#8217;d gone to. That university&#8217;s archivist (Nancy S.) at first thought there was no such document; but then called me back, having remembered a cursorily catalogued stack of mid-19th C records donated 30 years previously; stored in the sub-basement of another building but not yet accessioned into the on-line catalogue. The document was there. Locating it took about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting the dots. 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