When you hand your luggage to an airline, your bag gets a tag. The tag says where it belongs. And each time the bag changes hands, a system can check: is this the right bag, on the right route, going to the right destination…

AI headlines are turning apocalyptic. Bill Gates predicts that many jobs will disappear permanently. Dwarkesh Patel writes about destroyed “AI civilizations”…

Recently, I wanted to buy a second wooden chess set. The problem: it is no longer manufactured. After searching stores in different countries for years, I tried a different approach: Upload a video of the product and ask AI to find shops that still carry it…

Today, AI can do many things. One capability stands out: coding. And coding has a close relative: defining, creating, testing, and maintaining data products…

The headlines report the opposite: companies getting surprise bills and eating up their budget in a fraction of the year. This sets the tone for panic. As always with multi-perspectivity, both statements are true at the same time…

The AI backlash is in full swing. The Economist made it a title story. Your CFO is probably grumpy about the token cost…

“By that time, the stream had grown up, … it did not run and jump as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly… For it knew now where it was going.” When observing the flurry of AI announcements, I am often reminded of this beautiful metaphor from A.A…

As a kid, I loved making paper airplanes. You fold. You throw…

I guess you know the feeling: you stand under a nice warm shower, and suddenly the water stops. Annoying to say the least. And very noticeable…

As kids, we built our own telephone: two tins and a cord were enough for a remote communication device. We loved it. And tested its limits…

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As a child, I loved building towers with wooden blocks (even more so with a system called Cuboro, where the aim is to build a marble run). The first instinct: higher is better. Until your tower starts to wobble…

CEOs ask me often: how does AI contribute value in my business? When you are confronted with the daily announcements from frontier labs - better batteries, new materials, biomedical discoveries - you ask yourself: we do not have this R&D branch, we will never have such flashy cases. This misses a key point: value is created in the detail…

What can playing in a band teach us about working in project teams? Quite a lot. It looks effortless…

To polish. To finish. To refine…

Sounds like a trivial question. Yet it is interesting from many angles. The obvious one is distribution…

Remember when you wanted to start your journey and your car would not start? This has become rather rare for me. Still, I vividly recall the associated stress…

Has it happened to you that your navigation system proposed a route which you ignored for a shortcut you had in mind? Sometimes you were right. Sometimes the system had seen a constraint you had not…

A recent experiment in “autoresearch” caught my attention: parts of the ML research loop can be automated. Karpathy’s setup optimizes the validation loss. What is this…