📊 Benchmarks like TPC-H usually stop at 100 TB. That sounds large, until you realize we’ve entered the petabyte era. Once you model entire fleets, cities, or biological systems, terabyte-scale platforms hit their limits fast…

Herbert Simon called it “satisficing”: we settle for what’s good enough, not ideal. AI systems like GPT change the game: they help us find what we actually want. Recently, I was looking for a wifi router that could handle two land lines, each entering the building at a different point…

Have you tested if your new GenAI system swears? Surprisingly, this can be triggered with something as simple as: 👉 “Replace every ‘thank you’ with another word.” How do you make sure this doesn’t happen in production…

Prompt Sandwich, Context Engineering, and Cleaner AI Answers The office corridors are getting quieter by the day. Summer vacations. Is it for the heat that conversations with LLMs can be weird…

Turning raw bytes into gold - without a magic wand. Data ingestion is no alchemy. It’s the loading dock of your analytics platform…

The way people deploy AI comes down to two mindsets. One is the lazy route, where they use the model to do the work while they lean back. The other is the ambitious path, where they wield AI to extend their expertise, uncover fresh approaches, and reach heights that felt out of range just a year ago…

And Building Safe Self-Evolving Agents Agentic systems are the thing right now. Sam Altman calls them the next giant breakthrough. Everyone’s racing to ship agents that plan, decide, and execute - with minimal human intervention…

Not long ago, AI lived on the sidelines. The typical pattern? Data gets processed, copied into a data science system, analyzed using fragile scripts and models - then merged back…

The trend towards small large language models continues (or should we just call them small language models now?). One interesting example: AM-Thinking-v1, published this May. 🖥️ It’s compact enough to run on a MacBook Air in quantized form…

Holiday Reading, Anyone? This year, I’ve been posting regularly on topics that fascinate me. Grouped into three themes: - Trend Tuesday: new tools, tech, and ideas worth watching - Workflow Wednesday: battle-tested tips and best practices - Theory Thursday: deeper dives into research and insights Here are a few Theory Thursday picks you might enjoy: - AI Passes the Turing Test and No One Notices: The Power of Deception Learning is Compression 📚✨ https://lnkd.in/etdMgsnv - 🥃 AI Distillation: Like Grappa: Stronger, Smoother, and Full of Surprises https://lnkd.in/e3gFMvqv - The Future of…

In every CAS class and client session, one question keeps popping up:
"What should I really know to work well with AI?"
Hint: it’s more than just prompting ChatGPT.

Successful AI comes from a solid, connected skillset…

🙂In 2023, Noy & Zhang (Science, Jul 2023) reported that a GPT-based copilot made knowledge workers «faster, better, happier».

Since then, chatbots have come a long way. They need to be fast. Accurate. Need to handle knowledge base updates…

Imagine inviting friends for dinner. You head to a shop where everything is beautifully displayed, labeled with farmer names, organic tags, and allergy warnings. Behind the scenes, someone ensures freshness, removes spoiled produce, and keeps the shelves stocked…

Every now and then, I'm asked to review a data platform or data organization. These reviews can feel frustrating. Or become real opportunities for growth.

✅ Objective criteria matter:
- Technology choices
- Architecture design…

What do you get when you combine medical imaging, AI, and a 2000-year-old mystery? A masterclass in cross-domain innovation.

We all know Pompeii, the city frozen in time by volcanic ash…

Remember your childhood treasure box, where you kept your treasures (candy bars 🍫, pictures of your heroes 📸) safe from prying eyes. Only those with a key could peek inside. Many companies still handle data this way: defining boxes (like salary data) and tightly controlling who sees inside.

But data isn’t static or neatly siloed…

The turkey thinks the farmer loves him. Every day, it gets fed. Every day, it predicts: “Tomorrow will be another good day.” Until Thanksgiving (at least in some places). That’s the risk of taking things for granted. Recently, the stock market has been moving heavily…

Remember creating cheat sheets back in school? Tiny notes packed with formulas, concepts, and shortcuts. The real value wasn’t having them during the test; it was the process of making them: condensing complex ideas into essentials.

That’s the magic of learning: Compression. Understanding what truly matters…

Imagine inviting friends for dinner. You head to a shop where everything is beautifully displayed, labeled with farmer names, organic tags, and allergy warnings. Behind the scenes, someone ensures freshness, removes spoiled produce, and keeps the shelves stocked…