Where did Happy Jōb even come from anyway? It came from Terry’s mind, that’s where. After getting that background out of the way, it’s a day of talking shop about data and numbers in industrial settings. While this one’s pretty technical in some of the details, most of the concepts generalize to basically anyone responsible for data collection, standardization and cleanup, reporting, or usage of any kind. Which is a pretty broad brush at this point.

1m 51s The guys play another round of AI or Not AI? Trains edition. Conclusion: “It depends.”

7m 57s Digital twins are arguably a solved problem in manufacturing. You heard it here first…maybe.

9m 55s Ten years of sometimes-successful professional work on data harmonization condensed into a few paragraphs. But if you can’t explain it quickly, was it really even worth doing in the first place.

30m 0s Accepting the ambiguity of where the edge actually is in edge computing. If I know, and you know, but we can’t cite a definition, that’s probably still okay.

33m 4s Two non-engineers indirectly weigh in on the engineering skills needed to make it in 2023. Fight me. Email your complaints to thehappyjobrecords @ gmail .  c om and they will be ignored in the order they are received.

37m 50s When international diplomacy on standardization is actually devious strategic manipulation.

39m 6s Turns out there’s a zealot for everything, no matter how obscure and technical, when the entire internet is at your fingertips.

41m 21s “The smelliness of fishheads is not in conflict with the water tightness of a bucket”