Thoughts – Pedro Leitão

London Crime Dashboard

a dashboard about London crime, as reported by the Metropolitan Police.

Dear Apple, Why Does Universal Control Suck?

Universal Control

i love the idea of Universal Control, but it doesn’t work as well as it should.

Getting Things Right: How Engineering Teams Scale and Achieve Great Things

Software Engineering

larger doesn’t always mean faster or better

Moving to Quarto

why i think quarto is better

I’ve been using JupyterBook to create this site for a while, and I’ve been pretty happy with it. But I’ve recently started using Quarto, and I think…

France, AI and Back to Nuclear for Germany ?

were the french right all along ?

President Macron has just signalled that France is about to announce €109 billion private sector investments in AI. This is a significant amount of…

Will Artificial Intelligence Ever be More than Fancy Curve Fitting ?

ai is just hyperdimensional regression

Machine Learning

One of my favourite books from my late 20’s was Roger Penrose’s The Emperor’s New Mind, where he argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic…

Exploring the Impact of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Machine Learning

a new dawn for machine learning, or just another fad?

Machine Learning

Machine learning never sleeps, and its latest wake-up call is the cutting-edge Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), as detailed in this NSF paper.…

On Scaling AI: Are we Hitting the Limits of our Current Approaches?

the data problem and the chinchilla scaling law

There’s been a lot of speculation on whether we’re hitting the limits of our current approaches to scaling AI. Will OpenAI and others be able to…

The Connundrum of European Tech and Artificial Intelligence

why Europe is lagging behind in ai investment and innovation

The European tech scene is a curious one. It is a region that is home to some of the oldest and most representative companies in the world, yet it…