INSIGHTS

Finance, AI & practice.

Perspectives, practical experiments and selected reading at the intersection of finance and artificial intelligence.

AI / Finance / Personal26 Nov 2024

Behind the scenes of joining ACCA’s global panel on accounting expertise and machine intelligence.

AI / Finance / Personal20 Nov 2024

Exploring local vision models with Ollama and Llama 3.2, and what they mean for privacy and everyday work.

AI / Market17 Mar 2024

An experiment with multimodal AI, financial charts and the importance of human judgement.

AI / Market8 Oct 2023

Testing how a vision-language model interprets market charts—and where professional judgement still matters.

Featured / Personal3 Aug 2026

Featured in the July 2023 ISCA Journal on the rise of generative AI and the value of domain expertise.

Featured / Personal16 Sep 2023

Reflections on discussing AI and the future of the accounting profession at Parliament House.

Market2 Aug 2023

Reflections on insurance float, options and lessons drawn from Berkshire Hathaway.

AI / How-to2 Aug 2023

Exploring how AI summarisation can help turn lengthy information into useful, accessible insights.

AI / Featured2 Aug 2023

A practical introduction to using Hugging Face embeddings to reduce the cost of working with vector databases.

AI / Misc24 Jul 2023

Selected reading from WillTan.com on five approaches to using AI tools commercially.