I will never understand why Canva does not have a drop shadow feature for its shapes.

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Yesterday, I had the honor to address over 150 bank compliance officers at the ABCOMP 2025 Annual Conference to discuss #AIGovernance and Risk Management of AI Systems. Sharing some of my thoughts from the session 👇🏻

AI Governance and Compliance: Who’s Accountable? eflegara.github.io/blog/20250212/

This is indeed fascinating. Anyone knows why?

Teaching educators (I mean basic education teachers) the basics of the science behind AI and its tools broadens their understanding of what AI can and cannot do. This know-how is crucial—not only for their own growth but also to better equip their students for an AI-driven world.

Consider me impressed. While some of us may disagree with his opinion, he articulates his thoughts on AI remarkably well and demonstrates a good intuition of (high-level) technical concepts. Definitely better than most policymakers, government officials I know—even fellow academics. 🤭

I’m often asked about the future of work—if I have any predictions. Well, at this rate, it would be quite moot to predict what the industry and their demands are going to be like. My advice is to just invest in the fundamentals—problem solving and self-learning skills are non-negotiable.

Even if large language models are open-sourced, the reality is that without sufficient compute power, leveraging these models is still out of reach for more than 95% of enterprises and other organizations.

From what she sees …, there is no job shortage for physicists – instead there is a dearth of physicists with the right skills for a specific role. … graduates with a physics degree in many fields have transferable skills that allow them to work in “absolutely any sector that you could imagine.”