My Writing

On Having A Personal LLM Eval Set

A short list of personal LLM evals that every executive should have

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

An Executive's Checklist for LLM Deployments

A list of things every executive should worry about before deploying LLM-based products.

Posted on Jan 22, 2025

From cloud to device

The future of AI and machine learning on the Edge

Posted on Sep 10, 2020

A brief pre-history of classical AI

Two foundational ideas that underlie Artificial Intelligence

Posted on Aug 16, 2020

What is Reasoning?

A while ago, I wrote an article on the six easy and not-so-easy pieces in AI. Reasoning was the first item on my list of not-so-easy pieces. In this series of articles, I take a closer look at reasoning — what it is, why it is important, and how it differs from the machine learning that is currently in vogue. Along the way, I trace the history of computational reasoning and highlight a few important ideas and systems that are still relevant today.

Posted on May 19, 2020

Six easy and not-so-easy AI pieces

There is a hard divide in AI. One on side are the problems that we know how to solve given time, money, and a little bit of luck. On the other side are problems that we can barely define. This essay explores six problems from both sides of this divide. The title itself is a riff on Feynman’s essays on physics.

Posted on Nov 4, 2019

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