Kashmir was released in 1975 on Led Zeppelin’s 6th Studio Album “Physical Graffiti” and is their most popular song that originates from it. To understand Kashmir’s meaning we first must not only look at what role it plays in the Album but also what the creators, Robert Plant and Jimmy
The VALL-E model was a marvel of technology, a glittering beacon of hope in a world that was growing increasingly bleak. Its voice-imitation capabilities promised to bring a new level of interaction between humans and machines, a brighter future for all. By listening just three seconds of someone’s voice, it
ChatGPT has taken the world in a storm. By various analysts ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months making it the fastest growing service in history. The issue however is that OpenAI, a company behind ChatGPT has started charging for their services, while their machine learning models have
Recently, European Central Bank published a blog post that sounded like an obituary to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. In this short text my goal is to argue the contrary with couple of examples from my Fintech class at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht. It is a common misconception that cryptocurrencies and the blockchain
Exactly 26 years ago, in the first semester of my studies, when I was of the age of my current students I was a hacker rebel fighting a war against the internet and developed some of the first viruses that spread over the WWW. I fought the war, but Internet
When something is difficult to measure like ESG, everyone can be an expert and advisor, and if governments are forcing you to buy it – it also sells. And every company can have an ESG rating of amazing. And we know all of that since at least Akerlof’s Nobel prize
Over the last months many all-around “Linked In experts” cite the results of Game Theory in their calls for solutions in the Russian war against Ukraine. Here I would like to address three common fallacies: The Game Theory on the subject of war and peace is very rich and probably
When I was fifteen, I ended up being a refugee during the wars in ex Yugoslavia. My parents as well, but in their forties. We lost everything. In that period I have met many people of different nations and ages that went through a similar experience like myself and my
I am playing now with Corona virus data. I have tried simulating various epidemiological models. The only reasonable conclusions at this stage I can make are: a) China started with the quarantine measures way too late. b) Due to late start with quarantine measures, quarantines in China are still not
More than five years ago I documented in great detail plagiarism in the PhD thesis of current Serbian Finance minister Siniša Mali. Finally, now, academic standards and the autonomy of the Belgrade University won over political influence – the Belgrade University acknowledged the blatant plagiarism and annulled the thesis. The