Category: Education

Latest Read: Regular Expression Puzzles

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date November 12, 2025

Regular Expression Puzzles and AI Coding Assistants: 24 puzzles solved by the author, with and without assistance from Copilot, ChatGPT and more by David Mertz.

Regular Expression Puzzles and AI Coding Assistants by David Mertz

David holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a leading figure in the Python and data science communities. He is the former Director of the Python Software Foundation.

This book revolves around 24 puzzles that range from basic string manipulation to very complex regular expression (regex) tasks. David is providing his expert solutions in Python. And with the explosion of AI Chatbots, he then prompts GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to solve the same problems.

These lessons provide insights to enhance your productivity by writing regular expressions. David also offers AI best practices, showing how smart prompts return better results. By the end, you’ll be a master at solving your own Regex puzzles, whether you use AI or not.

Rather than being a traditional, dry academic textbook, he shows the puzzles in a “man vs. machine” competition. This is perhaps a modern AI version of the song Big John in American folklore..

Tags Artificial Intelligence, David Mertz, Regex, Regular Expression Puzzles

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Latest Read: Security Chaos Engineering

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date November 8, 2025

Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems by Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart.

Kelly holds a BA in Economics from Vassar College. She previously serving as Vice President of Security Strategy at Capsule8 (acquired by Google Cloud) and management roles at SecurityScorecard. She co-founded IperLane, a security startup acquired by CrowdStrike. Today Kelly is a Senior Principal in the Office of the CTO at Fastly. She is a frequent speaker at major conferences like Black Hat, RSA, and O’Reilly Velocity.

Aaron holds a BA in Economics from the University of Missouri. He was the Co-founder and CTO of Verica (a chaos engineering startup) and a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in applying chaos engineering specifically to the security domain. A former Chief Security Architect at UnitedHealth Group (UHG), Aaron led the release of ChaoSlingr, an early open-source security chaos engineering tool. He is a frequent keynote speaker at the National Press Club, RSA, and DEF CON.

Both share that traditional security relies on the “fortress” mentality, building thicker walls to keep attackers out. However they state that modern, complex, distributed systems failure is not possible, it’s actually inevitable. So, don’t let the inevitable system failures stall organizational progress. By adopting Security Chaos Engineering, you certainly build the ‘immune system’ your software needs to withstand adverse events, ensuring your business goals and engineering velocity remain on track even under pressure.”

Tags Aaron Rinehart, Innovation, Kelly Shortridge, Security Chaos Engineering, tipping point

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Latest Read: Creepy Analytics

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date November 2, 2025

Creepy Analytics: Avoid Crossing the Line and Establish Ethical HR Analytics for Smarter Workforce Decisions by Salvatore V. Falletta.

Salvatore holds a EdD in Human Resource Development from North Carolina State University and a Master of Public Administration with a specialty in HR and Organization Development from Indiana State University. He previously served as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Atmel Corporation and held leadership HR roles at Intel, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Today Salvatore is a Professor of the Practice at Vanderbilt University.

Salvatore is revealing while AI can certainly augment an HR Recruiter’s efficiency, it simply cannot operate in a vacuum. Similar to many authors, a Human In The Loop (HITL) is absolutely mandatory to prevent a datafication of people from turning into surveillance.

Similarly, his golden rule is that AI should never make a final workforce decision alone. This is understood as ‘Augmentation, Not Replacement’ AI should be used to scan thousands of resumes, but human recruiters must provide the final judgment.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Creepy Analytics, HR Analytics, Salvatore V. Falletta

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Latest Read: The Predictive Edge

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date October 29, 2025

The Predictive Edge: Outsmart the Market using Generative AI and ChatGPT in Financial Forecasting by Alejandro Lopez-Lira.

Alejandro holds a MA and PhD in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.Today he is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Florida.

In the AI-accelerated landscape of financial technology, he is taking a view that legacy quantitative methods face diminishing returns. So here, a new “predictive edge” in Large Language Models has arrived. Perhaps a mix of theory and practice for integrating AI into your investment strategies.

Financial forecasting traditionally relied on structured data: price charts, earnings ratios, and trading volumes. Alejandro is now showing the market’s greatest inefficiency resides in unstructured data. Every day a large volume of news, earnings call transcripts, and regulatory filings have broken those legacy forecasting models. Enter ChatGPT and LLMs which hold the ability to process and perform sentiment analysis at a scale previously impossible.

Tags Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Forecasting, The Predictive Edge, trends

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Latest Read: The Upside of Disruption

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date October 26, 2025

The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown by Terence Mauri.

Terence is the founder of Hack Future Lab. He is a former Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and McKinsey, and columnist for Inc. Magazine’s Future Proof column. He is Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting professor at both IE Business School in Spain and an Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at London Business School.

Terence is introducing the “fail principle” and seeking to move organizations to relook at failure as a source of data and resilience. He sees failure as a source of innovation.

Organizational leaders who embrace this will not only survive disruption but leverage this for long?term value creation. Terence is sharing his key message of “unlearning” by stating “good leaders learn, but great leaders unlearn.”

So Unlearning must be a deliberate act by leadership. This including challenging assumptions, removing obsolete processes and introducing new behavioral models. The major obstacle to agility is the organization’s culture.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, change, Terence Mauri, The Upside of Disruption