MACH stands for Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless and joins a rich family of similar acronyms from tech history such as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS). MACH describes a set of high level architectural considerations but is not very prescriptive about how these are achieved, nor does it dictate…
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Decarbonising General Aviation (Oct ’23 Update)
I recently wrote about decarbonising General Aviation (GA) under the heading of “Futurology”, but it turns out that that future has already started to arrive, and our travel to a future of carbon-neutral GA is accelerating.
State of the AI Nation 2: Deep Unlearning
There is a storm coming for artificial intelligence relating to the use of copyrighted materials for training. Just because something is “publicly accessible” doesn’t make it OK to use in deep learning model-training and it might be time for some deep-unlearning.
ML Zero to Hero: Part 1 – Hello, World
The first steps are always the hardest, where do you even begin with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)?
This series of blogs will take you from complete novice to ML Guru in almost no time at all. Although you might feel like you’re too late to start, now is actually a great time to begin your ML learning journey.
The Future of UK Open Banking
Open Banking has transformed the financial services landscape and led to more innovation in the past 5 years than in the previous 250 years. Now the UK is set to supercharge that innovation with a new phase of accelerated innovation and an explosion of capabilities.
ActivityPub – The Most Important Technology You’ve Never Heard of
Despite sounding like a really bad Marvel rip-off, ActivityPub and the Fediverse might in fact be the next big platform shift for the internet.
State of the AI Nation 1: Google I/O 2023 Recap
On 4th May 2023, a leaked memo from a Google employee declared that the company “has no moats” when it comes to AI (artificial intelligence). A moat, in business strategy circles at least, means a competitive advantage that you can use to protect your business model. It means different things in castle design – in…
Why Google Will Win the AI Wars
In 2003, Michael Burry predicted that the US housing market would collapse in 2007. As we all now know, he was right…







