Some time back, I was involved in a discussion with folks at an India-based software company. An important question was asked - why isn't this company as productive (defined as revenue/employee) as it's western competitors, and what can be done to change this situation? In this discussion, I put forward …

I wrote an article for Jacobite (with Lisa Mahapatra explaining why AI "bias" - as described by journalists - is mostly fictional. Go check it out!

I recently analyzed a somewhat puzzling data set. I was sending HTTP POST requests to a system. The system's would then acknowledge receipt of these requests (returning a 200 status code), and some time later (it was a slow asynchronous process) send a web hook to a specified URL if …