I learned about Daniel Kahneman’s new book from a colleague just a few days before its release, I read the synopsis and pre-ordered immediately. “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment” came out mid-May 2021. This is not a review, but only my reaction in response to the authors’ central thesis…

As vaccination programmes continue around the world, I reflected on the role that information systems play in the speedy and orderly rollout. Of course, there are glitches and errors, but when was the last time you saw a piece of software deployed in just a few months with little or…

I know that compared to most parts of the world, I’m in a very privileged place: I can walk into a restaurant, sit down, be served a meal, and then even walk into a shop with non-essentials. I didn’t jump at the opportunity right away, I hesitated for more than…

I’m very grateful for Zoom this year. It’s not only all the teaching, the meetings, the various appointments — now it’s also all of my family life. Since I relocated to the US by myself for as long as the pandemic is in control of the borders, I only get…

As we continue to live our lives under the now perhaps more permanent new arrangement than we imagined, two polar opposite reactions seem to be developing. On one hand, more than just a few of my friends suffer from being so brutally cut and removed from the world out there…

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been putting together some lectures and teaching materials touching, in one way or another, on digital transformation. Little wonder, of course, as this is one of the hottest topics for management students and practitioners right now. …

Some of the most recent, biggest breakthroughs in robotics and artificial intelligence draw from the theory of embodied cognition, which is “deeply dependent upon features of the physical body of an agent, that is, aspects of the agent’s body beyond the brain that play a significant causal or physically constitutive…

After 11 weeks of lectures and labs, 3 weeks working on training my own neural network, 5 days of an intensive study bootcamp and 1 exam, I can finally reflect on what I’ve learned from machine learning. That is, apart from all these loss functions, gradient descents, neuron activations and…

I’m one of those people whose reaction to the pandemic shock was not to frantically scroll through social media feeds and news websites but quite the opposite — to abandon them. Admittedly, at that time I didn’t think that lockdown was going to last longer than 3, maximum 6 weeks…