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Why? What is our desired outcome? Such a simple question. Such a profound question. I’ve been contemplating writing this post for a while now, but struggled with the framing. Throughout 2025 I ...
Welcome to 2026. As we kick off the new year, it is clear that the landscape of Artificial Intelligence has shifted irrevocably. The buzzword of last year is gone; in 2026, we are moving fully into th...
AI systems are now embedded into modern, cloud-based systems, where scalability, automation, and rapid iteration are core design principles. As organizations operationalize artificial intelligence (AI...
Autonomous and semi-autonomous AI systems are no longer just predicting words or labeling images. They’re calling APIs, pushing workflows forward, touching financial systems, and moving data between e...
Recent reports about potential compliance certificate fraud have sparked important conversations in our industry. While the specifics of individual cases may still be under investigation, the broader ...
Exacerbating risk is the proliferation of identities: 78% of organizations lack policies for creating AI identities SEATTLE – Jan. 27, 2026 –The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading not-...
1. Introduction: The Strategic Edge of Agentic Finance In the contemporary landscape of quantitative finance, the bottleneck is no longer data availability, but the speed of insight generation. Levera...
I often hear the comment that LLMs/generative AI (large language models) can’t be trusted for research tasks. Image Google’s Nano Banana tasked with “Generate an image of a male African researcher hol...
Enjoyed learning the process of setting up a cluster of tiny PCs for parallel computing. A note to myself on installing Ubuntu, passwordless SSH, automating package installation across nodes, distribu...
Streamlining Our Pharmaverse Blog: Reducing Publishing Time with containers As an active contributor to the pharmaverse blog, I’ve always appreciated the opportunity to share new insights and tools wi...
After passing through rOpenSci peer review, the distionary package is now newly available on CRAN. It allows you to make probability distributions quickly – either from a few inputs or from its built-...
1 Introduction – Why This Topic Matters A model that performs exceptionally well on a test set is not necessarily a good model; in many cases, it is a warning sign. High accuracy or low error metrics ...
I am incredibly excited to announce the release of the futurize package. This launch marks a major milestone in the decade-long journey of the Futureverse project. Since the inception of the future ec...
Alt Text First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it is a brief written description of an image that explains context and purpose. It is used to improve accessibility by al...
Preamble: I had a roughly 8 year break from blogging and focussed on kids plus related duties. This year, I will try to start again. My goal is to write about (advertising-related) research and how pr...
Thanks to Athanasia Mo Mowinckel for reviewing this post! One goal of mine this year is to learn how to crochet amigurumi, that is to say, cute creatures. When working on my first project, a cat toy m...
I saw a fun video on YouTube recently in which some runners attempted to do two parkruns in one day. I don’t mean run the same parkrun course twice, I mean they ran one parkrun at one course and then ...
Read it in: Español. Maintaining an open source package is rewarding work, but it’s also a lot of work. Life and careers change, interests shift, and sometimes you simply don’t have the time or energy...
Ownership is quietly disappearing from every part of our digital lives. From Photoshop to Spotify, Kindle to Netflix, we’re trading permanence for convenience — and losing control in the process. Web ...
Blogging isn’t dead—it just got weird, broke up with Google, and joined a Substack cult. From SEO zombie posts to AI-written filler, we’ve lost the soul of writing—but the rebellion has already starte...