Essays on EdgeChain and MARS, a privacy-preserving, hardware-attested data and AI system for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. It explores trustless infrastructure, data sovereignty and the legal gap between cryptographic proof and enforceable rights in Africa.
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A martech practitioner analyzes CDP architecture, vendor selection and agentic AI, drawing on twenty years of building and fixing martech stacks. Issues cover data sovereignty in regulated industries, using vendor filings and DORA for due diligence, and how to lead selections with use cases.
Plain-spoken analysis of AI, technology and product topics from a practitioner's perspective, including explainers on AI watermarking and essays on organizational knowledge. It also announces the author's own open source project, Cogeto, an AI memory tool.
Avi Builds is a practical newsletter for engineers shipping production AI features, covering reliability, evals, RAG, routing and fine-tuning. Recent issues explain how to move voice AI pipelines onto Australian infrastructure and how to avoid biased or inconsistent LLM-as-a-judge evaluations.
A lawyer's logbook of self-built RSS bridges that turn government sites lacking feeds, such as BLM ePlanning, Congress.gov and the White House, into machine-readable streams. It pairs step-by-step setup instructions with arguments about the public cost of losing official data channels.
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