Thinking out loud
Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
Melanie Mitchell's book "Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans" is a primer on AI, its history, its applications, and where the author sees it
Read essayBig Tech has let go of thousands of workers in the last couple of months. In addition to the end of the era of cheap money and a broader economic slowdown,
Read essayAI is having a moment. The emergence of Generative AI models showcased by ChatGPT, DALL-E, and others has caused much excitement and angst.
Read essayStability.Ai, a UK based startup raised a significant round of funding in October 2022 to help democratize access to AI.
Read essayAlphaTensor uses deep learning to speed up matrix multiplication - a breakthrough in the use of machine learning based approaches to solve real world problems.
Read essayTikTok* has caused political controversies, made Meta change its Instagram platform to mimic it, and caused many a moral panic. All signs of success.
Read essayLarge Language Models like GPT-3 are powerful general purpose natural language processing tools.
Read essayThoughts on the Ethereum Merge.
Read essayI explore what makes for a good video game and how those lessons can be applied to supporting high performance teams.
Read essayViewing Mikel Arteta's management style as seen in the documentary series "All or Nothing: Arsenal" through the lens of Kim Scott's book Radical Candor.
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