Akshay
My name is spelled Akshay in English. It is also spelled అక్షయ్ in Telugu, and Akshayé in French.
Yes, the name of this blog is a pun on my name. I like dad-jokes and I can’t lie.
By day, I craft tech strategy for a prominent airlines. I used to be a consultant 10+ years back, and then for a while, as a civil-servant in Singapore. Switched to the data-science space in 2019, starting with power-plant networks in Singapore and India, but have shifted to aviation since 2021.
By night, I often wonder how tech, culture and society intersect. Aiming to be more literary or linguistic here, if you will. I am writing a novel too, and am translating a speculative fiction novel written in 1860’s.
I have a bachelors degree Computing from National University of Singapore, MBA (Strategy) from Nanyang Business School & an MS in Analytics from Georgia Tech. My LinkedIn profile goes into more detail.
I speak five languages - English, తెలుగు, دکھنی (दक्खिनी), Français and Español. Wife and daughter speak three more: Mandarin, Hokkien and Japanese. Will blog in at least two.
I don’t speak for my current employer. You’ll be nuts to buy or sell stocks based on what I write here.
.ai
(Updated 1 Nov 2025)
I first purchased this domain name back in 2018 as a lark. It is still a source of some chuckles, and want to keep it that way. However, this is 2025, and in the data/ tech world, that was a lifetime away. So a few caveats are perhaps useful.
I like to think of myself as a “classical AI”-ist, the AI with regression analysis, optimisations etc which I learnt in NUS back in 2002, and again at work in 2019 and in GeorgiaTech now. That’s slightly different from Generative AI, which is the AI that you see in the Generative Pre-trained Transformers such as ChatGPT. I’ve used generative transformers since Apr 2021 at least, when we used Large Language Models to categorize large volumes of textual data.
I am of the opinion that GenAI is a normal technology, and specifically, GenAI is a lossy data compression technique. There are some very interesting things you can do with GenAI.
Unfortunately, there are some systemic risks are something we are only beginning to understand now. Risks bias, sycophancy, and societal loss of skills. Risks do not include AGI or any Star-Trek-ian nonsense, but definitely include exploitation by some extractive overlords with deep pockets.
Also: the TLD .ai is a reference to Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean of about 16,000 souls spread across a beautiful island that’s 91 sq-km large. Please don’t confuse Anguilla with Antigua, which is another Caribbean island with such notables as cricketing great Viv Richards.
Using AI here
None of the textual or image content here will be AI-generated. Everything you read here will be hand-crafted by me. However, it is likely that I will discuss how AI can be used, use AI techniques to analyse large volumes of data, or to generate code that will analyse such data. In such cases, I will cite usage to the extent possible. I’m generally aligned with Georgia Tech’s policy in this regard.