Over the holidays, I read A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett, a fantastic book that traces the evolution of intelligence from worm-like nematodes (microscopic worms) all the way to us humans. The author does an absolutely brilliant job of the journey by breaking it into five key breakthroughs starting from the minute organisms... Continue Reading →
The importance of Humanities
I just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’, a reimagined retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield, set in modern day America in the backdrop of rural poverty and opioid addiction. Highly recommend the book - although it is by no means an easy, fun read. Through this, I got to imagine what it means to be... Continue Reading →
#77 Systems or Models
It was exactly 2 years ago (Nov,2022) that I had written about Software 2.0 (term coined by Andrej Karpathy) and I had argued that we should expect a rapid and meaningful shift from systems performing deterministic tasks (think ERP, RPA etc.) to learning, adaptive systems where the "source code comprises of a 1/neural net architecture... Continue Reading →
#76: Evaluating LLM-based Natural Language interfaces for Databases
I have always enjoyed Thanksgiving family get togethers because among other things, gives me a chance to catch up with what the next generation is up to - always get to learn a thing or two from them. And this time, enjoyed talking to my niece's husband who thinks very deeply about data privacy (working... Continue Reading →
#75: GenAI Data Strategy: High-quality Training data
There is a lot of talk about a data strategy for Generative AI. And rightfully so - as companies will continue to find out ways to leverage enterprise data assets to better ground the Foundation Models (FMs). Earlier this year, I and a couple of my colleagues had written a blogpost on data governance for... Continue Reading →
Celebrating the learning and curious mindset 