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Every once in a while, I have dropped updates on my account on my socials, that I am working on an app called Cubic, without adding much context. In this post, I want to share a little more about what it is and the chaotic journey it has been to get to the first beta. Continue reading "Building Cubic Part 1: Motivation and Early Prototypes"
It s been a very philosophical day. Well, reading-wise anyway. So posting some links here that I would like to reflect on later. 1. Is consciousness parasitic? This is not a new idea for me, since it was the basic idea of his book (Blindsight), but I enjoyed Peter Watt s talk on trying to understand what Continue reading "A few philosophical reads"
For the last 2 years I have built experiences that had features that used AI agents (mostly using LangGraph), but I have learned more in the last 2 months embedded in the team migrating a digital support assistant from the pre-llm-AI world to a new agents-first architecture. And while the goal is to be completely Continue reading "Building Agentic Systems"
Last week I attended the third meetup by Philadelphia Forecasting Meetup Network on Prediction Markets. I have never played in the prediction markets before, and have no intention to anytime soon, but I have been fascinated by the idea ever since I saw them cropping up in the blockchain space when I was still active Continue reading "Notes from a Prediction Markets Meetup"
This week I attended a really fascinating conversation on creativity with guest Amanda Shulman, head chef and owner of the Michelin Star awarded Her Club restaurant. While the whole conversation was fascinating, one part of the chat was especially intriguing where she talked about her relationship with her Chef de Cuisine (a title I had Continue reading "🏴☠️ On Pirates and Architects"
Its that time of the year again. Reflecting on this year, I am thankful for so much but its also been a year where optimism was is lesser supply than usual. As a technologist, I was excited to explore the possibilities opening up with AI, and with my new-ish role of Director, I enjoyed setting Continue reading "2025 Retrospective"
Having written a retrospective pretty consistently for the last decade or so, at this point its almost customary to start with how different this year felt compared to previous ones. But this one was truly one for the books! Work A big year for Xfinity Moments Moments is the internal name for the digital keepsakes Continue reading "2024 Retrospective"
The 2024 Olympic Games kicked off yesterday (Friday, July 26) with what a spectacular opening ceremony on the Seine. The Olympics have always been a big event at Comcast with numerous new experiences launching at this time that push the viewing experiences to new levels. 2024 is no exception, except for a more personal reason: Continue reading "The Olympics Passport to Paris experience"
Google Cloud recently published a post titled 101 real-world gen AI use cases from the world s leading organizations . As with any list that long, my eyes started to glaze over by the time I reached the 10th bullet point. So I asked an LLM (well, ChatGPT, sorry Google Gemini) to categorize the list by grouping them into Continue reading "Categorizing Google s 101 real-world Gen AI use-cases "
Jeff Dean: Exciting Trends in Machine Learning A worthwhile watch on YouTube though more a retrospective on how we got here than where we are going; which is great since the pace of innovation in this space is demolishing predictions so fast and any future of AI video has a shelf life of only a few months How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds A bit of a dramatic title, though I suppose…