AI & Data Science
Notes on AI
Summaries and notes on LLMs, AI agents and the machine learning systems behind them, written while building agentic AI for finance.
focus: agentic AI for finance agents: planning · tool use · memory · self-evaluation domain: cash forecasting · treasury · credit risk · lending craft: evaluation · ML quality · getting models to production
Agent at work
An agent running a 13-week cash forecast.
Cash dips to $232k, $18k under the $250k buffer. Recommend moving two vendor payments ($40k) from week 7 to week 9.
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2026
Building a Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation
One model. Every member’s full history. Many recommenders.
Causal Reasoning for Agentic AI
An agent I watched last quarter did everything right and still got the answer wrong. It read the request, produced a clean five...
When We Can Finally See Inside an AI’s Mind
Why understanding how large language models think may become one of the most important breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.
How AI Stack in the CFO Vertical Can Double the ROI of Fintech
There are many parts of the CFO vertical can be enabled by AI to increase the productivity and at the same time improve the per...
AI Is Already Building Better AI. Most People Haven’t Noticed Yet
Anthropic’s latest essay suggests we may have crossed an important threshold: AI is no longer just helping humans work faster —...
We Built the Perfect Data Strategy — for Three Years Ago
Why the future of data governance is not just about helping humans understand data, but helping AI understand what your busines...
Understanding the LLM Orchestration Stack
How modern AI applications coordinate models, tools, memory, and workflows to build production-grade intelligent systems
Innovation and Governance: The Future of AI in Lending
The lending industry is standing at the intersection of two powerful forces: rapid AI-driven innovation and increasing regulato...
2025
How Good Are Your ML Best Practices?
(George Chouliaras et al., Booking.com Data Science)Read the full article
Impacting businesses through predictive models
Nearly ~90% of models never make to production leading to business impact and further impacting the top line and bottom line of...
Summary of the Article on DeepSeek and Its AI Advancements
Summary of the Article on DeepSeek and Its AI Advancements
2024
MemGPT
MemGPTThe paper “MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems” introduces MemGPT, a system designed to address the limitations of ...
Understanding Multimodal LLMs
Understanding Multimodal LLMsIn this article, I aim to explain how multimodal LLMs work and summarize recent research papers in...
LangChain - Generative AI
What it does - It is a framework that allows developers to create applications using LLMs. How it works - It combines extern...