My first teacher in Artificial Intelligence was Andrew Ng. Well, I have not met the guy in person (not yet at least!): back in 2017 I did the "Machine Learning" specialization in Coursera. That course, when first launched in 2011, attracted over 100,000 students and had millions
Allow me to start with a joke. A reporter interviews a well known and successful CEO. * "How did you manage to become so successful?" asks the reporter. * "Wise decisions." he replies smiling. * "Yes, but how did you manage that?" * "Experience!" * "Yes,
The last three months (or so), every week I read something that triggers me to write a post. There are a lot of things going on, so post writing is ... postponed! Then the next wow thing happens ... It is kind of frustrating. So, this time, I decided to act quickly!
In IMDB, this 4 episode TV mini-series is described as "One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system". There is much, much more
Did you ever want to place something new in a space you live in, that turned everything upside down? We decided to replace a twenty year old TV with a newer model. It was a kind of a ripple effect! The whole space had to be redesigned. This is where
Two years ago, a friend of mine asked: "How is it possible, you of all people, not to read science fiction anymore?". It was a reasonable question given that part of my library contains about two hundred science fiction books and I am the author of a science
People may be divided in two broad categories. Those who (more or less) managed to follow their dreams and those who had to work in more mundane activities to sustain living. In the first category, I place a lifelong friend of mine that owns a winery. For him every day
The first robot vacuum cleaner, Electrolux Trilobite, was released around 2001 and cost around $1.500. Now, one may get a basic model in the range $100–$300. My experience is that despite the relatively easy things that it requires to do, almost twenty five years later, a descent model
Following an article titled "Learning from Han Kang; Why it is so embarrassing to be human?", I looked up (as suggested) her speech at the 2024 Nobel Prize nomination. We prefer more and more to read short articles. We do not have time for long stories in our
* Can you please explain why you decided to learn ... Japanese?? * Well, several years ago, when I did the "Learning how to learn"course in Coursera, one of the instructors, Dr. Barbara Oakley took an interview from a guy named Benny Lewis. This guy wrote a book titled "
I sought out a famous and well-loved Japanese literary work that is highly regarded by people around the world. Out of the several options this was my first to read. Norwegian Wood (Norwegian Forest according to the original Japanese tittle - Νορβηγικό Δάσος) is a book that totally fulfilled my
Half an hour ago, I managed to install and locally run my first LLM (Large Language Model). Well, those who know me, already heard of LLMs: ChatGPT was the first one and the LLM almost everybody heard about. Now days we have a proliferation of LLMs: Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral,