We've put to together a series to try to give a flavour of what Knowledge Engineering as a career choice looks like - though it might be of interest here.

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I used to fly model rockets from the fields by the White Horse. And I'll never forget being made to do cross country running on the Ridgeway from school.

There's so much history and myth tied up with that area. Especially true of the White Horse, Dragon hill (where legend says St. George killed the dragon), and Wayland's Smithy near by.

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Infrequently updated thoughts on photography, logic, open rights, canoe building and many other things.

I was here for almost 20 years before I learnt that Heighham is pronounced as just "Ham".

The platform has two main parts:

1. The studio (an area where you can make visual decision-making models in a process similar to mind mapping)

2. The inference engine (which uses your models to automate decision making)

The platform is designed so that computer scientists and automation specialists can overcome the challenges of machine learning (in particular, our inability to stay in control of algorithms that find their own patterns in data) and RPA (in particular, a decision tree’s inability to juggle many variables at a massive scale). And that’s why we’ve focussed on two principles as we improve Rainbird:

1. Human-down structure: that is, we start with human knowledge and apply it to data (so that humans can always understand and explain what the machines are doing)

2. Non-linear automation: that is, we focus on capturing and codifying knowledge that can apply to multiple scenarios (rather than on steps to be followed in a one-off, isolated situation)

I’m really excited to share with you Rainbird Community, which lets you freely access our decision automation platform (as well as our AI and automation-focussed discussion forum).

Rainbird is a no-code intelligent automation platform that makes your daily, work life simpler and more rewarding by automating decisions that, right now, you probably think are impossible to automate. We think everyone should have access to that power.

You can try out the platform for yourself by joining Rainbird Community: https://community.rainbird.ai/

Feel free to ask me any questions you have in the comments section below!

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They’ve played with raspberry pi too, but Microbit is just so immediate. You write some code (or drag some blocks about), upload and it just works. It’s simple, understandable and quick. It’s also bridging the gap to learning some basic electronics too - building small circuits on a bread board with a mictrobit controller.

There’s something about microbit that just sparks my kids imagination - they’ve used it for school projects, homework assignments, they make little robots, figure out how they can automate tasks like watering their plants. All things they could do on Raspberry Pi of course, but still…

I see my kids playing about with mictrobits and I get a really sense of the same joy I had messing about with computers and electronics in the 1980s.

Some years ago I was taken on a tour of their facility, I was struck by how passionate about the product everyone I met there was. That passion seems to ride through to their loyal user base, I hope Ilford remain strong.

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