Η ζωή που μας αξίζει.
Το περασμένο καλοκαίρι η Ελλάδα βίωσε ίσως τον χειρότερο καύσωνα της τελευταίας σαραντακονταετίας. Παράλληλα με τις ανυπόφορες θερμοκρασίες (που ξεπέρασαν τους 43° κελσίου σε πολλά σημεία της χώρας) η Ελλάδα βρέθηκε αντιμέτωπη με σωρεία πυρκαγιών (και το 2024 προβλέπεται χειρότερο, τουλάχιστον κατά 22%.) Η ελληνική κυβέρνηση ισχυρίζεται πως μεγάλο μέρος αυτών οφείλονταν σε ανθρώπινο παράγοντα, […] ⌘ Read more

A short story.
In mid 2020 I took a break from work. I was burnt out and exhausted, both physically and mentally, and — in the midst of Covid19 — wanted a break before starting on my new role as CTO of a Blockchain network analytics company. During those sweet couple of months of Summer 2020, I was […] ⌘ Read more

The Mac at Forty
Even in the darkest times (for Apple), in the mid to late 1990s, the importance of the Macintosh could not be understated. Today, exactly 40 years to the day, Apple is constantly contending for the top spot in market cap globally, the Mac is far from Apple’s most profitable product, but it’s arguably, still, one […] ⌘ Read more

The Coding Robot
Back in 2019, after deciding to leave Beat, I was contemplating starting a new project. It was an ML-based project, informed by my experience at both smaller and larger companies, like Beat: An ML-based Code Reviewer. The idea was that smaller companies, founders aside, seldom have senior engineering talent on board, and the quality of […] ⌘ Read more

Starlink and Natural Monopolies
A couple of weeks ago Elon Musk tweeted (or Xed, or whatever it’s called today) that Starlink has broken even and congratulated its team. The company has been offering fast satellite internet access through its own Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of more than 5000 satellites. As part of SpaceX, it’s the first company of […] ⌘ Read more

The impending first era of AI
There’s an article in WSJ about the imminent ‘AI Boom’ and how a couple of companies, the ones that have already been both enabling and controlling our existence, to a large extent, are bound to become even more powerful. It’s interesting to ‘see’ the interplay if you’ve been working in computing technology for the past decade or so. Christopher Mims, the author of the WSJ article, posits that the computing requirements of large language models, latent text-to-image diffus … ⌘ Read more

The ‘West’ is losing. How could it not?
I’m pretty sure that February 24th, 2022 is going to be written in the history books, if those books ever get written and we’re not all subsumed in an imminent nuclear winter. The predictability of a Europe, and later United States-dominated world, where the ‘West’ ruled and enjoyed unprecedented levels of comfort, material wealth and peace and the rest of the world either suffered or gradually developed, feeding from the leftovers of Western consumption, i … ⌘ Read more