Improving Your Business with the Kano Model
When developing a new product or adding fresh features to an existing one, it's crucial to understand what our customers want and need. Whether…
Essays & Field Notes
The Journal
Essays on agentic AI and distributed systems, and the architecture that keeps them working under pressure.
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Dimensionality Reduction: Why Intelligent Systems Must Forget
Updated December 2025 to reflect modern agentic and autonomous systems Executive Summary Dimensionality reduction is often taught as a performance optimization. That framing misses…
Accelerating Your ML Projects with Automated MLOps Pipelines: Best Practices to Follow
Organizations are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to gain insights into customer behavior, operational efficiencies, and numerous other…
Linear Regression: The Foundation of Predictive Analytics
Let's chat about one of the most fundamental techniques in machine learning and statistics - Linear Regression, which forms the backbone of many advanced…
From Good to Great: Regularization as Control, Not Optimization
Updated December 2025 to reflect modern agentic and autonomous systems Executive Summary Most machine learning systems don’t fail because they lack intelligence. They fail…
Mastering Scala Basics: Collections
Scala collections systematically distinguish between mutable (scala.collection.mutable) and immutable (scala.collection.immutable) collections. A mutable collection can be updated or extended in place. This means you…
Mastering Scala Basics: Sequencing Computations
Generic types allows us to abstract over types. If we don’t care what type is stored but we want to make sure we preserve…
Mastering Scala Basics: Modeling Data with Traits
Traits allow us to express that multiple classes share a common super-type. Traits are similar to Java’s interfaces and can be thought of abstraction…
Mastering Scala Basics: Objects & Classes
Just like other programming languages, we use class to create objects that have similar methods and fields. In addition, class in Scala defines a…
Mastering Scala Basics: Expressions, Types, Values & Methods
Expressions are parts of a program that evaluate to a value. For example: val a = 3 + 5 // a evaluates to 8…