Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement
If you work in product or tech, you have probably sat through this meeting. Someone…
Who Pays for AI Data Centers?
Introduction John Steinbach has lived in his Manassas, Virginia, home for nearly 40 years, and…
Computer Vision: SIFT algorithm (Scale Invariant Feature Transform)
SIFT is one of the most widely known algorithms in computer vision. Its core objective…
Forward Deployed Engineer: AI’s Hottest New Career, or Consulting With a Better Title?
Introduction In January 2025, Indeed barely registered "forward deployed engineer" (FDE) as a job title.…
Where the Agent Development Lifecycle Fits
IntroductionHarrison Chase's discussion of the agent development lifecycle (ADLC) at Interrupt26 NYC prompted me to…
Did AI Just Solve One of Mathematics’ Biggest Problems?
OpenAI recently announced something extraordinary: an internal AI system had produced a proposed solution…
I Compacted 1,000 Apache Iceberg Files Into 6. Here’s What Happened to Query Performance.
When you deal with large analytical datasets stored in table formats such as Apache Iceberg,…
Batching by Length Instead of Looping Item by Item for SLM Optimization
Previous articles in this series discussed constraining output space as well as reusing the prompt…
AI Slop Is Already in Your Training Dataset. I Tested Three Ways to Spot It.
In their 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning paper, Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A…