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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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Last Time Last time we looked at depth first search and how it could be applied to a simple optimization problem, the pancake problem. We decomposed the pancake stacking problem into some components are very important if you want to apply heuristic search: A goal test States Actions to move between states We then looked […]
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Flipping Flapjacks, Pruning Pancakes, and Depth First Steps
In the previous post in this series I spent some time trying to convince you that toy problems are worthy of your attention. In particular, I tried to sell you on the notion that the pancake problem was worthy of your attention. It isn’t necessarily because flipping flapjacks is in of itself fascinating. It’s because […]
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Looking Back Over The Years – A Message from Jeff Gilbert
Looking Back The 30+ years at SEP flew by. You hear older people say things like that often, and it does feel like life accelerates. There were some very tough times and a lot of great times. For me, I always felt like just another employee with the responsibility to look out after all of […]
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Get Out of My Gmail – Using Google Docs for Work
So you want to use Google Docs, huh? Seems it’s what all the cool kids are doing these days. But if you’re like me there’s greatness to work/home balance but not so much wonderfulness to the commingling of the information. And if you’re also like me you get invites to collaborate on Google Docs. Which is […]
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Ridiculous Problems, Real Applications
Life is filled with compromises. Generally, we just don’t have the resources, be they time, money or and so on, to do the things we want to do as well as we’d like. While I can’t solve that problem entirely or generally, I can help you intelligently trade time for improved solutions to problems that […]
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Machine Learning for Classifying Turbine Engine Performance
Introduction Machine learning is at least as old as Arthur Samuel’s attempts to improve his checkers playing programs back in the 1950s (Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers), if not older still. Despite being around for decades, machine learning has received intense interest recently from the public, the scientific community, and […]
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Angular – Dynamically Loading External Libraries
The Setup: I am on a project for a fairly large client. There are multiple teams, and they all depend on each other to varying degrees. This client requested an Angular application with features which would essentially be sub-applications. A proof-of-concept (POC) was spiked out a few months prior, which dynamically imported one Angular app […]
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SEP Named a Best Place to Work for 10th Consecutive Year
SEP was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. This 14th annual program was created by the Indiana Chamber of Commerceand Best Companies Group. This statewide survey and awards program is designed to identify, recognize and honor the participating employers in Indiana with the leading workplace cultures. The list is […]
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SEP Earns Bronze-Level Bicycle Friendly Business Designation
Washington, DC: The League of American Bicyclists, a national bicycling and advocacy organization of nearly 20,000 members, has recognized SEP with a prestigious Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) certification. With the announcement of 82 new and renewing BFBs across the country, SEP joins a growing list of 1,314 local businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 500 […]
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