General Info Articles
It’s Not About Faster, It’s About Better
I’ve had a hypothesis I’ve been turning in my head for a while. The current version goes something like this: By default, AI tools increase speed and throughput but damage software quality. The marketing for the tools boasts about speed and throughput if you just use them everywhere…and that leads to them being used everywhere, […]
Sleep On It: The Engineering Case for Better Rest
A few months ago I read a book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist who runs the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley and has published over a hundred peer-reviewed papers on sleep. I love reading about health and wellness, and the more I got into this one the more […]
Work-Life Balance Isn’t the Goal
Work-Life Balance is a great start. But, I think we can do better… I don’t think we were ever meant to attempt to compartmentalize work and life in some sort of balancing act. Work bleeds into life. Life bleeds into work. A hard season at home shows up at your desk. A stressful stretch at […]
Learning AI Optimization w/ Factorio 2: Modelling
What is this project? If you have not yet read the introduction, you can find it here. The abridged version is is: My goal is to create a system for determining the “best” possible Factorio factories based on footprint and cost to build. Modelling? So, one of the key things for making a maze solver, […]
Learning AI Optimization w/ Factorio 1/x
Who am I? My name is Keith Hanson, I graduated from Rose-Hulman with a degree in Software Engineering in 2021. In my time since graduation I worked extensively with infrastructure as code and on backend systems. Notably what you won’t find in my project background is anything to do with AI. I took 1 course […]
Why We Critique: How to Make Peace with Your Fear of Design Critique
Designers, no matter their practice, have gone through some form of design critique in the past. Someone had to critically point out how the work needed to improve during the educational years. University programs are specifically structured with formal critiques in their curriculum; these help students get critical feedback to expand their thinking and learn […]
Bug vs Feature Request? Your Users Don’t Actually Care 🤷
Your shiny new software just launched. The team expertly planned and executed the deployment. Your new product integrates seamlessly with your other systems. New users find the product intuitive and user-friendly. But, as with any new software, a few problems crop up. The Bug vs Feature Request argument begins. Is it a bug? A bug means […]
Navigating the Cloud: Key Considerations for Building or Migrating to Cloud-Based Applications
I often have to pull folks at SEP into early conversations with our clients to help explain and understand the technical nature of the client’s world. One of those people is our Director of Software Engineering, Jon Fuller. Jon’s experience and approach make him one of the best in our walls at asking great questions […]
How Medical Innovation is Already Changing the Future of Healthcare
I attended the Digital Health Innovation Summit this summer in San Francisco, which brought together leading innovators in healthcare and medical technology. They shared fascinating, cutting-edge medical innovation research being done by clinicians, scientists, technologists, and biomedical engineers that will fundamentally change the way we approach the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients in the […]
Don’t Underestimate the Power of Good UX Writing in Product Design
As a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer, I’m often biased toward products that look good and function seamlessly. But the words that appear within those beautiful and functional designs are just as important in helping users navigate and interact with a product. This important component of my job is known as UX writing. Full disclosure: […]
Celebrate National Intern Day with our 2023 SEP Internship Experience Wrap-up
July 27th, 2023 marks this year’s National Intern Day! Today, we want to recognize these 8 students who took part in SEP’s internship experience! In the last few months, the interns have had the opportunity to work on all different types of projects with real-world experience. Each day of the summer has been different, bringing its […]
Helpful Tools to Make Your First Voice Clone Dataset Easy to Build
Helpful Tools to Make Your First Voice Clone Dataset Easy to Build Voice clones are really, really good now. And there are a bunch of companies that sell them. Do yourself a favor and spend five minutes playing with a voice clone from any of these services. ElevenLabs is not listed in that article but […]