Dachshund: What Happens When an AI-Native Insurer Enters the EU?
American insurtechs promise speed, simplicity and products designed around modern companies. Europe offers an attractive market – but also fragmented regulation, established distribution systems and a rather different conception of trust. A strategic simulation of what survives the crossing.
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Dachshund: What Happens When an AI-Native Insurer Enters the EU?
American insurtechs promise speed, simplicity and products designed around modern companies. Europe offers an attractive market – but also fragmented regulation, established distribution systems and a rather different conception of trust. A strategic simulation of what survives the crossing.
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AI Slop, AI Assistance, and the Way I Actually Work
From time to time, someone dismisses one of my posts as “AI slop.” I understand where that reflex comes from. The internet is increasingly flooded with synthetic filler, inflated claims, and content that was never truly thought through by anyone. But that is not how I work with AI. I use it much more like an editorial room, a sparring partner, and sometimes a very fast assistant: to turn my own notes, structures, experiences, and unfinished ideas into something coherent enough to publish.
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Taming Firefox’s places.sqlite: A Weekend Performance Breakthrough
A bored-weekend side project turned into a tiny masterclass in database design. I rebuilt a “works-for-now” importer into a set-based, transactional loader and dropped runtime from 4 hours to under 10 seconds for 300k+ rows – on an average NVMe host with MariaDB. Same machine, same data, different architecture. Here’s the story, the thinking, and just enough code.
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I Didn't Disappear. I Rebuilt.
For the past few months, I’ve been quiet — at least on the outside.
But it wasn’t a break. It was a deliberate restructuring.
Of how I think, how I work, how I operate in the world.
And who I’ve now become because of it.
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Tracing Ancestry with Artificial Intelligence
Genealogy can be a fascinating yet challenging hobby. Especially when dealing with old, hard-to-read documents, one quickly reaches their limits. But modern Artificial Intelligence offers us new possibilities to uncover even the last secrets of our family history.
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In the Shadow of the Jungle: The Discovery of Red Pandas
My last expedition was about discovering this unique place, meeting its inhabitants, and the profound changes they've brought into our lives. It's the story of a community that, despite its uniqueness, shows deep connection with us and demonstrates how valuable cooperation and a shared pursuit of knowledge can be.
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