Clayton - Data & AI Architect

Predictive Insights for Career and Technical Education

Clayton — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Background For more than 40 years, iCEV has supported Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs with a comprehensive online learning platform designed to prepare students for real-world careers. Its curriculum spans a broad range of subject areas including agricultural science, health science, business, and law enforcement. Through multimedia lessons, customizable courses, and industry-recognized certifications, iCEV equips educators…

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Is Nondeterminism Really The Problem?

Clayton — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

LLMs are powerful tools, but interacting with them effectively can be surprisingly unintuitive. Commonly, they’re dismissed as being nondeterministic, that for the same input they may produce a different output. Prompt: Write a haiku about nature. Option 1: Morning light drips slowThrough pine needles, the earth breathesA bird stitches dawn Option 2: Golden sun sinks…

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When Adding More AI Agents Makes Things Worse

Clayton — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000

If you’ve spent any time around modern AI systems this past year, you’ve probably heard some version of this idea – if one agent is good, more agents must be better. The thinking goes: Need better reasoning? Add agents.Need reliability? Add agents.Need scale? Definitely add agents. A recent paper, “Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems” (December…

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Accelerating Accessibility: AI-Powered PowerPoint Remediation for Career and Technical Education

Clayton — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Background iCEV, a leader in Career and Technical Education (CTE) for over 40 years, provides educators and students with a comprehensive online platform offering curriculum across agricultural science, health science, business, law enforcement, and more. With multimedia lessons, customizable courses, and industry-backed certifications, iCEV equips students with the skills they need for workforce success. To…

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How the Top 5% Succeed in GenAI: A Guide to Beating the Odds

Clayton — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

In today’s rapidly evolving environment, cutting through the AI hype machine to distinguish between genuine breakthroughs and mere distortion can be a formidable task. Are we on the cusp of an economic bubble or the dawn of true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? While opinions abound, the most reliable insights often emerge from major research institutions…

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The Accidental Image Library: A Story of Curiosity, Creativity, and 100,000 AI-Generated Pictures

Clayton — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year, we got to indulge two of our favorite things: supporting the arts and technology to build cool things. We built the Audience Interactive System (AIS) to power the Spokane Symphony’s ‘Beethoven vs A.I.’ performance. The goal was to create a truly immersive experience, blending a classical art form with cutting-edge tech to…

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Garden-Variety Realtime RAG

Clayton — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:07:45 +0000

Enriching Voice to Voice Generation with On-Demand Knowledge Inspired by our marketing manager Rob’s recent post on leveraging AI in personal applications, I decided to try OpenAI’s Realtime API for a practical project: creating a garden helper for my wife and me. But this experiment also demonstrated the broader power of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG),…

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Into the Swarm: Enhancing Decision-Making with Particle Swarm Optimization

Clayton — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Optimization is a branch of mathematics concerned with finding the best solution to a problem with questions like: How do I maximize profit, how do I minimize cost, etc. They’re important questions, but sometimes it’s hard to determine the exact best solution. We can turn to heuristic algorithms, which are procedures for more quickly finding a sufficiently good solution.…

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Power BI’s Data Compression: Large Data Imports in Power BI

Clayton — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:49:52 +0000

Optimization of Power BI to Maximize Advantages of Encoding Methods This guide explores data compression regarding Power BI, specifically relating to xVelocity engine functionality and data importation limitations. In this discussion, I focus on 10 GB uncompressed data and 1 GB compressed data. Limitations of 10 GB Uncompressed Data Likely error encountered by our client: “The amount of uncompressed data on the gateway client has exceeded…

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Power BI: A Detailed Examination of Data Importation

Clayton — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:44:27 +0000

Clarifying the Use of Queries and Methods for Data Importation with Power BI Power BI is an industry leader in self-service analytics. This service delivers large-scale business intelligence into the hands of the end user by leveraging familiar tools found in Excel and Analysis Services into a single streamlined application. Power BI takes advantage of…

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