Recent Musings
What does it take to make data science, machine learning, and AI truly impactful in practice? Reflections, ideas, and insights on real-world challenges and current developments in a data-driven world.
Bias in AI is bad – but is it really?
March 04, 2026
There is a lot of talk about bias in AI and how it results in bad and sometimes even harmful answers. But if you peel back a layer...
Can we ever trust AI?
May 21, 2025
By now, AI models are used broadly. However, when it comes to trusting their outputs, we sometimes still run into a wall...
Agentic AI Orchestration – can Generalists Outperform Specialists?
May 21, 2025
AI assistants are evolving into cross-system agents. But can generalists outperform specialized tools in the long run?
Bootstrapping Agents - let them figure it out!
March 18, 2024
I have heard this a few too many times recently: “We can’t build an AI agent yet. Our knowledge base / data catalog / ... isn’t ready. These and other variations of this sentence stop many AI projects before they even begin...
Open Sourcing LLMs – is it really all about ethics?
March 08, 2024
Should GenAI be open source? That debate typically focuses on the risks of giving everybody with sufficient compute resources the ability to...