AI

I've run many manufacturing lines in the past, and seen hundreds more, including some exemplary examples of lean while visiting companies in Japan…

Time flies, but some memories - and the lessons from them - remain vivid. In late 2000 I decided to pivot from over ten years in medical device manuf…

I spent the month of June in Malta, Greece, and Switzerland. Three countries, three very different economies, one thing in common: almost nobody talke…

My grammar can be atrocious, and I know exactly why. I grew up in a Spanish-speaking country and still speak it close to natively, which left a perman…

In 1969 Volker Strassen found a way to multiply two 4×4 matrices using 49 scalar multiplications instead of the obvious 64. The trick went into textbo…

I came across the paper behind this post through Azeem Azhar's Exponential View newsletter, in a short item noting that AI-native startups start s…

On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV stood in the Vatican's Synod Hall to present Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical. The document addresses AI and hu…

One morning earlier this year, engineers at an Alibaba-affiliated AI research lab woke up to a cascade of security alerts. Attempts to probe internal…