The Firm DeepSeek’s success prompts two critical questions: how it outperformed well-funded Chinese AI giants and what this reveals about China’s broader …

I write this as part of what I do in explaining ML (and goodness forbid, AI) concepts to non-technical friends. Reinforcement learning …

Time is the silent conversationalist at every table, the unacknowledged guest who draws the map of our wrinkles, etches the slow change …

I worked on this as a Covid project – from February 2021 to November 2021. I didn’t keep track of the number …

18 months later… Waiting for #6 – a 2022 Frank Ravatin, on commission. I pretty much spend most of my playing time …

So this has been a half-year in making. Countless coffees, anxiety, frustration and a healthy dose of good luck later, the cello …

Sounds difficult but actually it’s not too bad after a few hours of seemingly mindless frustration. First, you need your old soundpost …

Over the course of the past 2 months, and as part of an introspective series on ticking off the checkboxes in my …

I built my last classical guitar in 2006, with life getting in the way during the intervening 14 years. Thanks to mid-life …