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Extended analysis in which technical, organizational and regulatory questions are developed with evidence, structure and sufficient depth.

The EU Digital Battery Passport: Who Is Affected, What Must Be Done, and When
A practical guide to product scope, organisational responsibilities, data obligations, and the February 2027 deadline
92 min
energy
essay
regulation and compliance
🇬🇧
Jul 18, 2026
Modified Jul 18, 2026

From EPC Documentation to System Assurance
Why European BESS projects require systems engineering, cybersecurity-by-design, and evidence-based commissioning
148 min
cybersecurity
energy
essay
🇬🇧
Jul 10, 2026
Modified Jul 18, 2026

AI Adoption, Productivity, and the Missing Middle
A review of Banca d’Italia QEF 1009 on Italy’s AI adoption, firm productivity, and policy architecture
70 min
italy
digital transformation
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
Jun 12, 2026
Modified Jun 12, 2026

Controllo e Monitoraggio della Rete: la Nuova Postura di Sicurezza degli Impianti Connessi
Gli aggiornamenti Terna agli Allegati A.13, A.69 e A.52 nel quadro europeo di resilienza cyber, NIS2, CRA e Perimetro di Sicurezza Nazionale Cibernetica
78 min
cybersecurity
energy
essay
🇮🇹
May 16, 2026
Modified May 17, 2026

ArchiMate 4 and the Cartography of Complexity
How ArchiMate 4 simplifies enterprise modeling while enterprise systems grow more complex, shifting the real challenge from notation to semantic governance and operational evidence
296 min
enterprise architecture
tutorial
🇬🇧
May 2, 2026
Modified May 2, 2026

Measuring Cyber Risk in the Italian Corporate Sector
A Banca d’Italia indicator of cybersecurity vulnerability designed to support creditworthiness evaluation
78 min
cybersecurity
essay
enterprise risk management
italy
🇬🇧
Jan 24, 2026
Modified Apr 26, 2026

Process Mining in Manufacturing with Purchased Components and Variable Lead Times
A practical example of event-log analysis, object-centric modeling, lead-time diagnosis, and planning correction
45 min
digital transformation
enterprise architecture
tutorial
🇬🇧
Dec 13, 2022
Modified Apr 14, 2026

The December 2025 Cyberattack on Poland’s Energy Sector
A detailed reconstruction of the incident, the malware, and the wider significance for energy and OT security
52 min
cybersecurity
energy
essay
🇬🇧
Mar 25, 2026
Modified Apr 11, 2026

Process Mining as Computational Process Intelligence
A formal and technical view of event-log analysis, object-centric process models, conformance checking, performance diagnosis, and enterprise applications
101 min
digital transformation
enterprise architecture
essay
🇬🇧
Oct 22, 2023
Modified Apr 9, 2026

Reclaiming the Namespace: EU Digital Sovereignty in the CVE Ecosystem?
Rebalancing coordination and autonomy: EU digital sovereignty, federated CVE governance, and the conditions for sustainable economic growth
43 min
cybersecurity
EU digital sovereignty
position paper
🇬🇧
Mar 28, 2026
Modified Mar 30, 2026

Introducing Enterprise Architecture in a Multinational Company: A Roadmap for Building the Discipline from Scratch
Building an architectural capability to guide technological evolution, manage structural complexity, and evaluate transformation trade-offs in large multinational enterprises
64 min
digital transformation
enterprise architecture
essay
🇬🇧
Mar 2, 2018
Modified Mar 14, 2026

Quantum-Safe HTTPS Certificates: Google’s Structural Innovation, Technical Foundations, and Governance Implications
Engineering quantum resistant web authentication through Merkle commitments, transparency logs, and scalable trust infrastructure
36 min
cybersecurity
cryptography
essay
quantum computing
🇬🇧
Mar 5, 2026
Modified Mar 5, 2026

A Glimpse of Agent Evolution
Intelligence, incentives, and the rise of machine coordination
48 min
agents
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
Jan 31, 2026
Modified Jan 31, 2026

Encrypted Cloning and the Exact Boundary of the No-Cloning Theorem
Redundancy without replication in quantum information processing
45 min
essay
quantum computing
🇬🇧
Jan 16, 2026
Modified Jan 16, 2026

When Digital Trust Expires: Quantum Computing and the Collapse of Signature-Based Security
How quantum attacks turn long-lived signatures into silent integrity and impersonation risks
111 min
cryptography
cybersecurity
enterprise risk management
essay
quantum computing
🇬🇧
Dec 26, 2025
Modified Dec 26, 2025

From S&OP to Continuous Orchestration: Envisioning the Hybrid Enterprise of Humans and AI Agents
From calendar-driven cycles to signal-driven enterprise adaptation
119 min
machine learning
enterprise architecture
essay
🇬🇧
Sep 28, 2025
Modified Dec 21, 2025

From Planning to Orchestration: Reimagining the Enterprise Beyond S&OP
Designing the continuously orchestrated enterprise
81 min
agents
enterprise architecture
essay
🇬🇧
Sep 21, 2025
Modified Dec 20, 2025

Comprehensive Guide to Sales & Operations Planning, Sales & Operations Execution and Master Production Scheduling
From planning cycles to organisational capability: how integrated planning evolves through execution, feedback and learning
180 min
enterprise architecture
essay
🇬🇧
May 5, 2022
Modified Dec 19, 2025

Beyond the Hype: What Microsoft’s Copilot Data Really Says About AI at Work
From lofty predictions to real-world clicks: what AI usage data reveals about job impact and the new governance of human–agent organizational models
85 min
agents
enterprise architecture
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
Aug 9, 2025
Modified Aug 10, 2025

Darwin Gödel Machine: A Commentary on Novelty and Implications
From formal proofs to empirical evolution: re-energizing self-improving AI with the Darwin Gödel Machine
41 min
agents
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
May 31, 2025
Modified Jun 2, 2025

Beyond the Urgency: A Commentary on Dario Amodei’s Vision for AI Interpretability
Exploring the path from sparse features to a global cognitive safety regime
32 min
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
Apr 25, 2025
Modified Apr 25, 2025

Beyond Human Data: A Critical Examination of Silver & Sutton’s Welcome to the Era of Experience
How experiential learning could turn the world into AI’s ultimate training ground
24 min
agents
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
Apr 20, 2025
Modified Apr 25, 2025

Sudoku and Satisfiability Modulo Theories
You can solve it the standard way or… with Python and math
74 min
fun
mathematics
programming languages
tutorial
🇬🇧
Sep 5, 2024
Modified Sep 6, 2024

The Relationship Between Category Theory, Lambda Calculus, and Functional Programming in Haskell
The power of compositionality
60 min
essay
mathematics
programming languages
🇬🇧
Aug 10, 2024
Modified Aug 12, 2024

Harnessing Focus: Merging AI and Market Dynamics
The attention paradigm: bridging natural language processing and economic theory
41 min
essay
machine learning
🇬🇧
Apr 19, 2022
Modified Jul 31, 2024

AI as Important as Fire, Generative AI as the Printing Press, Autonomous Agents as the Wheel – What’s Next?
On finding the right metaphors to frame current and future revolutions
36 min
essay
generative ai
machine learning
🇬🇧
Feb 10, 2024
Modified Feb 11, 2024

Python as an Interface Between Human Thought and Machine Execution
Why Python became a cognitive, architectural, and computational bridge
55 min
essay
software development
🇬🇧
Jun 22, 2022
Modified Jan 30, 2024

Homomorphic Encryption for Developers
Unlocking data privacy with powerful cryptographic techniques
147 min
cryptography
tutorial
🇬🇧
Jun 23, 2022
Modified Dec 30, 2023

Enterprise Architecture Beyond Rational Optimization
A commentary on dynamic programming, bounded rationality, TRIZ, and digital transformation roadmaps
52 min
digital transformation
enterprise architecture
essay
🇬🇧
Nov 14, 2020
Modified Jan 7, 2021
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The First Scroll Read by Machine Learning
Virtual unwrapping, Herculaneum, and the return of a lost library
29 min
machine learning
research
🇬🇧
Jun 28, 2026
Modified Jul 18, 2026

When Digital Trust Gets a Deadline
The U.S. 2030 post-quantum cryptography order, enterprise cryptographic debt, and why a federal mandate matters beyond America
18 min
cybersecurity
enterprise risk management
quantum computing
🇬🇧
Jun 27, 2026
Modified Jun 27, 2026

When AI Enters the Laboratory
Scientific discovery as a closed loop of prediction, experiment, and correction
16 min
machine learning
research
🇬🇧
Jun 25, 2026
Modified Jun 25, 2026

The Industrialization of Intelligence
Neural networks, computational capital, and the transition from artificial general intelligence to artificial superintelligence
30 min
machine learning
mathematics
🇬🇧
Jun 14, 2026
Modified Jun 14, 2026

When a Nobel Laureate Uses an LLM to Prove a Theorem: A Turning Point for Mathematical Discovery
How AI-assisted proof discovery is reshaping the practice of mathematics
17 min
machine learning
mathematics
🇬🇧
Jun 6, 2026
Modified Jun 6, 2026

The Leiden Declaration and the Governance of AI-Assisted Mathematics
How mathematicians are answering the new cognitive infrastructure of proof
17 min
machine learning
mathematics
research
🇬🇧
Jun 4, 2026
Modified Jun 4, 2026

The New Cognitive Infrastructure of Science
AI, mathematical thought, and the rise of automated research
27 min
machine learning
mathematics
research
🇬🇧
Jun 2, 2026
Modified Jun 2, 2026

The Erdős Moment of AI
When a language model entered frontier mathematics and why this changes more than mathematics
10 min
machine learning
mathematics
🇬🇧
May 24, 2026
Modified May 24, 2026

When Vulnerability Databases Become Triage Systems
NIST’s NVD update, record CVE growth, and the economics of AI-scaled cyberattacks
22 min
cybersecurity
machine learning
🇬🇧
May 22, 2026
Modified May 23, 2026

KDE, the Sovereign Tech Fund, and Europe’s Search for Digital Sovereignty
Why public investment in open source desktop infrastructure is becoming a strategic matter for European states
7 min
EU digital sovereignty
software
🇬🇧
May 21, 2026
Modified May 21, 2026

Process Mining: From Theory to Execution
Why quantitative process intelligence is becoming essential for enterprise architecture and digital transformation
15 min
digital transformation
enterprise architecture
🇬🇧
Nov 17, 2022
Modified May 1, 2026

Code Sovereignty Starts with the Forge
Why the Dutch government’s Forgejo-based code platform matters for European digital sovereignty
14 min
EU digital sovereignty
software
🇬🇧
Apr 30, 2026
Modified Apr 30, 2026

The French state becomes machine readable through an AI layer
Inside the data.gouv.fr MCP server and the new interface stack for public data
33 min
EU digital sovereignty
machine learning
software
🇬🇧
Apr 18, 2026
Modified Apr 18, 2026

France’s Linux Desktop Turn and the European Logic of Digital Sovereignty
From a French workstation migration signal to the broader European effort to regain control over critical digital infrastructure
17 min
EU digital sovereignty
software
🇬🇧
Apr 12, 2026
Modified Apr 12, 2026

Quantum Cryptography at the Edge of Feasibility: Resource Estimates, Architectural Divergence, and Systemic Risk
An analysis of the Google and Oratomic results on Shor’s resource estimates and their implications for the convergence of quantum circuit optimization, error correction, and hardware architectures
28 min
cybersecurity
cryptography
quantum computing
🇬🇧
Mar 31, 2026
Modified Apr 11, 2026

What Is a World Model?
From psychological theory to machine learning architectures
21 min
machine learning
🇬🇧
Dec 7, 2025
Modified Feb 11, 2026

Quantum Computing Threats and the Advantage of Acting Now
Why trust expires before systems fail, and how early remediation becomes a strategic program rather than an emergency rewrite
10 min
cybersecurity
cryptography
quantum computing
risk management
🇬🇧
Dec 31, 2025
Modified Dec 31, 2025

Beyond De-Skilling: Intelligence Explosion and the End of Skill as a Stable Category
Why generative AI forces a redefinition of mastery, agency, and human value
6 min
generative ai
machine learning
society
technology
🇬🇧
Dec 24, 2025
Modified Dec 24, 2025

Architecting Change
How I blend enterprise architecture, technology, and interim leadership to transform organizations
6 min
digital transformation
enterprise architecture
interim management
professional practice
🇬🇧
Apr 20, 2025
Modified Apr 20, 2025

Simulating Tethered Buoy Dynamics
How a barely noticed update triggered forgotten emotions
7 min
mathematics
research
🇬🇧
Feb 20, 2025
Modified Feb 20, 2025

GPT-4 Anniversary
One year of a mass phenomenon
25 min
generative ai
machine learning
🇬🇧
Mar 15, 2024
Modified Mar 16, 2024

Intervento al DABS Day 2024 - Università Ca’ Foscari
GenAI: Dall’intelligenza artificiale all’amplificazione dell’intelligenza?
2 min
generative ai
machine learning
professional practice
🇮🇹
Mar 14, 2024
Modified Mar 15, 2024

Color Space Sampling 101
How to uniformly sample a color space?
32 min
programming
Python
tutorial
🇬🇧
Jan 27, 2024
Modified Feb 11, 2024

Singletons in Python
Ensuring a single instance for shared resources
21 min
programming
Python
tutorial
🇬🇧
Mar 8, 2018
Modified Dec 11, 2023

Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography
Concepts, roles, and correct use
13 min
cybersecurity
cryptography
quantum computing
🇬🇧
Jun 23, 2023
Modified Jul 1, 2023

Cybersecurity in an Era with Quantum Computers: Interpreting Mosca’s Risk Inequality
Why x plus y greater than z turns quantum readiness into a present day governance problem
9 min
cybersecurity
cryptography
quantum computing
risk management
🇬🇧
Dec 8, 2019
Modified Apr 11, 2022

Controllo delle Partite IVA in Excel Tramite il Servizio VIES
Per utenti senza esperienza di programmazione
5 min
personal productivity
🇮🇹
Nov 22, 2021
Modified Nov 25, 2021
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