RISE OF THE MACHINE

It's no secret that within just a short span, the boom of brilliance on display from some of our most prized developers, have allowed us to witness leaps and bounds within the TECH INDUSTRY.

 

Likewise, successive automations, from the simple, to those of immense intricacy and complexity, have dawned a new era of engineering ambitions that have far surpassed what most critics deemed possible years ago.

And as we continue to improve upon these themes, there are certainly a few questions to be asked - such as how might they affect the future of human employability in the field.

This rings especially true, as the evolution of autonomous developments, such as NEURAL NETWORKS and advanced DATA MINING trends take shape, spawning a surge in the emergence of machine-automata and refactoring methods that now make it possible to subvert developer efforts in favor of self-modifiable codes instead of requiring human programming efforts within key production processes.

If designs then, such as the GOOGLE WORLD BRAIN and other ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ambitions, have the ability to enhance productivity efforts in such a way that the need for human-machine interaction declines, the developer, programmer and software architect's efforts and future necessity within the field also declines, with the very real threat of programmer obsoletion looming.

The emergence of collective data mining practices allow data sharing in more connected pathways, through an increase in collaborative interfaces, but they also pose the very real threat of phasing out human efforts as well.

We are now witnessing the residual effects of such industry trends, as the I.T. Giants TWITTER, GOOGLE, and MICROSOFT, have begun widespread layoffs within their family of workers, with our predictions forecasting other tech giants to follow in the near future.

Likewise, as aspiring S.T.E.M FIELD contributors continue to grow in both education and industry ambition, OMNITEKK suggests these exploration areas to increase your chances of employability within the market.

DATA SECURITY

Security breaches of sensitive data, whether by malicious intent or harmless virtue, pose significant threats to data security and privacy, and must constantly be maintained and supported, such that the viability of tech implementations along with the safety and security of sensitive data maintain their integrity.

Hence, there shall always be a need for securing information and maintaining data obsfuscation trends within the industry.

HARDWARE DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE

With the emergence of self-learning machines, the need for workers who design and build the hardware to ensure the successful integration of both hardware and software, shall prove immense necessity within development processes. 

Hardware engineers and hardware maintenance workers should find sustainability within the field, procuring their rightful place amongst the dwindling tech jobs on the market, as the need for software designers is on the decline.

BIG DATA

Of all the types of developers on the market, a thorough expertise in understanding DATA STRUCTURES and DATA COLLECTION and ORGANIZATION TRENDS, that foster the utilization of otherwise disconnected information to be used in meaningful applications, make way for what we consider the big boom of employability and productivity trends within the market.

CREATIVE VISION AND TECH INGENUITY

The pioneer has always proven a very necessary commodity in the tech arena, and there has never been a greater time to evoke one's own creativity flows, so as to find lacking vestiges in the field, to apply ingenuity within those processes, just as the industry titans of old have done.

As such, the tech visionary is always of good use. 

SEE A NEED FILL A NEED.

INDUSTRY SPECIALIZATION

The era of the JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF NONE is long gone, and the I.T. arena now calls for the highly specialized tech connoisseur who is well vested in know-how within methods, language and practicality of use.

And with the latest tech trends in I.T. seeming to employ the culmination of MACHINE -AUTONOMY - from self-driving cars, to self-flying aircraft and even to self-coding codes - the culmination of our relevance in the field should be BUILD, SECURE and MAINTAIN.

May these words help you on your journey to OMNITEKK GREATNESS as you master your craft.

And until our next I.T. adventure my friends, OMNITEKK says be well.

NUMBER CONVERSIONS

A great deal of the tasks the developers of new engage in, require on some level, the structural converting from one number base to some other, as our natural counting bases differ from those coveted 1's and 0's, amongst others, used in our machines, to dish out the glorious codes serving to simplify both our workflows, and the means by which we interact with and automate the world around us.

And without further ado, OMNITEKK presents our rendition of NUMBER CONVERSIONS, to help you along the way to becoming the I.T. rock stars we know you all have the proclivity to be.

BASE 10 TO BINARY

While we each of us have 10 fingers and 10 toes - well most of us anyway... giving ode to the representation and relevance of our base 10 numbering system, the machines we use in our processing tasks do not.

Fact is, the innerworkings of the human readable inputs and outputs of machine processes we recognize, prove vastly different within the machines themselves, consisting only of the simplicity of low to high voltage representations of data sequences, signified by either a 1, to show a HIGH VOLTAGE or ON position of a RELAY, TRANSISTOR or SWITCH along with 0, indicating LOW VOLTAGES or OFF positions.

These are the foundational attributes of what we come to know of as the BASE 2, or BINARY numbering system.

So instead of trekking between 10 numbers to represent the culmination of data or information, our machines accomplish almost whimsical feats, by combining and grouping, masking and converting just two numbers, namely 1's and 0's. 

It's all quite fantastical if you consider it.

Likewise, converting from BASE 10, our natural counting BASE, to BASE 2, the computer's natural counting BASE, consists of multiplication and division to represent clusters of binary information.

Here's how...

Let us take the BASE 10 DECIMAL number 1 2 3 4 5 for instance. 

We simply divide the number by 2, while keeping only the remainder, in reverse order, as our BINARY number conversion result.

So, 1 2 3 4 5 becomes 0011 0000 0011 1001 in BINARY.

Likewise, to convert a BINARY number to DECIMAL, simply utilize the inverse operation of multiplying the BINARY number by 2 with increased exponentiation ranging from 0 to the BINARY number length minus 1, to retrieve its BASE 10 number equivalent, only calculating the addition of the degree values where the result is 1 or ON.

00(1*8192)+(1*5096)+  0000  00(1*32)+(1*16)+  (1* 8)+00(1*1)

BASE 8 TO BINARY

Suppose instead of having 10 fingers and toes, we instead have only 8.

In this instance, instead of counting from 0 to 9 before our number increases in degree, we only count from 0 to 7.

So counting 20 in our new number base looks like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 and so on.

Thing is, we still have to represent a BASE 2 number. 

To do so, we simply utilize the same process of multiplication and division from our initial BASE to our desired BASE.

 In this instance, to retrieve the BINARY equivalent of the OCTAL value 30071, we simply process the OCTAL number by its individual numbers, and divide each of those number values by 2, discarding all but the remainder values in reverse to retrieve our BINARY equivalent in groups of 3.

So 3  0  0  7  1 in OCTAL becomes 011 000 000 111 001 in our BINARY conversion.

Likewise, to retrieve the OCTAL equivalent from our BINARY value, we simply perform the inverse  operation on our binary groups of 3, and convert each number group to their OCTAL equivalent.

0(1*2)+(1*1)   000   000   (1*4)+(1*2)+(1*1)  00(1*1)

BASE 16 TO BINARY

Now, keeping up with convention, suppose instead of having 10 fingers and toes or even eight of them, we instead have 16.

While such a conception might seem both foreign and of unpleasant inconvenience, this is the measure of our hexadecimal (hex for short), or BASE 16 numbering system - introducing instead of only the DECIMAL numbers 0 through 9, the culmination of the alphabetical letters A to F also, for total of 16 number counts before increasing the degree of the actual number.

For instance, instead of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, we now have 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E and F, with A having the equivalence of a BASE 10 10, B of 11, C of 12 and so on.

To convert a HEXADECIMAL number to BINARY, we simply divide the number in it's individual number values by its BASE conversion factor of 2, grouping the result by groups of 4.

So the HEXADECIMAL value ABCD  becomes 1010 1011 1100 1101.

To compute its inverse, we simply compute each group of BINARY digits to their HEX equivalent, multiplying each BINARY digit by 2 in increasing exponent order from 0, only keeping the ON or 1 values in reverse as our result.

(1*8)+0(1*2)0   (1*8)+0(1*2)+(1*1)   (1*8)+(1*4)00   (1*8)+(1*4)+0(1*1)

And that's it folks, NUMBER CONVERSIONS served!

Until our next I T. adventure my friends...OMNITEKK says be well.