Is the idea of invention the same as innovation? Or is it different? Are all inventors innovators? How do you know if your idea is an innovation or and invention? At SparcPoint, we thrive in innovation. It's not that we don't love invention, it's just more difficult in its truest sense and can't be taught.

Gradient Descent is an optimization algorithm used to find the local minimum of a function of infinite complexity. This is why it is such a useful mathematical tool.

You don’t need a blank slate to change the world. Entirely new or novel ideas are often rare, exhausting, and costly. By its definition however, innovation requires only that we alter or change what already exists. We tend to mentally avoid this type of innovation. Faced with the thought of standing on the shoulders of giants, we find this interpretation lazy or opportunistic or worse, parasitic. In actuality, this type of innovation has provided some of most critical and successful innovations in the world today.

Inductors. A small, basic electronic component. It is used in so many ways. And yet, you probably know very little about them. The inductor is 1 of 3 basic passive components in electrical engineering. It has the ability to store magnetic fields as current changes direction. Let's see a real world version of one of these components.

Complex Matrices. Most people know numbers. Fewer know about complex numbers. And a subset of those people know about representing complex numbers as matrices, allowing (albeit limited) algebra in the form of matrices. By uses matrix algebra and the structure being presented, unique and efficient algorithms can be generated. But of course, I'll let you figure those out!

WordNet is lexical database for the english language created at Princeton University in the Cognitive Science Lab around 1985. Since then it has been updated several times and is currently at version 3.1 (2012). The significance of this database is far reaching and important especially in natural language processing (NLP).

Hexadecimal and other numerical base systems are used in so many aspects of science and engineering, including software engineering. It is important to understand how Decimals, Hexadecimals, and Binary numbers interact with each other how they are converted. This post is meant to help show you how and why these bases exists and how to use them effectively in your endeavors.