When Customers Churn at Renewal: Was It the Price or the Project?
A practitioner’s guide to causal attribution when two churn drivers arrive at once. The post When Customers Churn at Renewal:…
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The Joy of Typing
A practical guide to modern type annotations in Python for data science The post The Joy of Typing appeared first…
Give Your AI Unlimited Updated Context
The architecture behind a portable knowledge layer and the automation that keeps it alive. The post Give Your AI Unlimited…
AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields
Explore how AlphaEvolve’s Gemini-powered algorithms are driving impact across business, infrastructure, and science.
How Major Reasoning Models Converge to the Same “Brain” as They Model Reality Increasingly Better
Because there’s only one reality to model! The post How Major Reasoning Models Converge to the Same “Brain” as They…
I Rewrote a Real Data Workflow in Polars. Pandas Didn’t Stand a Chance.
From 61 seconds to 0.20 seconds — and the mental model shift I didn’t expect The post I Rewrote a…
Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going…
When the Uncertainty Is Bigger Than the Shock: Scenario Modelling for English Local Elections
A scenario analysis case study on calibrated uncertainty, historical error, and why some models are most useful when they refuse…
Timer-XL: A Long-Context Foundation Model for Time-Series Forecasting
Exploring the inner workings of a decoder-only Transformer foundation model The post Timer-XL: A Long-Context Foundation Model for Time-Series Forecasting…
Why I Don’t Trust LLMs to Decide When the Weather Changed
A physicist’s approach to building production-grade agents The post Why I Don’t Trust LLMs to Decide When the Weather Changed…
Deconstruct Any Metric with a Few Simple ‘What’ Questions
What you see is rarely what you get with flashy dashboards and data storytelling The post Deconstruct Any Metric with…
U.S. Officials Want Early Access to Advanced AI, and the Big Companies Have Agreed
Microsoft, Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have offered to let the U.S. government access new AI models ahead of…
Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI
Gabriele Farina grew up in a small town in a hilly winemaking region of northern Italy. Neither of his parents…
Discrete Time-To-Event Modeling – Predicting When Something Will Happen
Part 1: The basics — discretization of time, censoring and the life table The post Discrete Time-To-Event Modeling – Predicting…
How to Make Claude Code Validate its own Work
Improve Claude Code performance by having it validate its own work The post How to Make Claude Code Validate its…
RAG Hallucinates — I Built a Self-Healing Layer That Fixes It in Real Time
Your RAG system isn’t failing at retrieval — it’s failing at reasoning. This article shows how I built a lightweight…
White House Weighs AI Checks Before Public Release, Silicon Valley Warned
President Donald Trump’s White House is contemplating whether the US government should be allowed to screen the most powerful AI…
Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: When to Build a Multi-Agent System
A practical guide to understanding AI agent design, ReAct workflows, and when to scale from a single agent to a…
How to Build an Efficient Knowledge Base for AI Models
Building a knowledge base for AI models isn’t a one-time task but an iterative process of refinement. The post How…
Playing Connect Four with Deep Q-Learning
Solving multiplayer games with function approximation The post Playing Connect Four with Deep Q-Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science.
CSPNet Paper Walkthrough: Just Better, No Tradeoffs
A review of the Cross-Stage Partial Network paper — and a from-scratch PyTorch implementation The post CSPNet Paper Walkthrough: Just Better,…
Inference Scaling (Test-Time Compute): Why Reasoning Models Raise Your Compute Bill
Why reasoning models dramatically increase token usage, latency, and infrastructure costs in production systems The post Inference Scaling (Test-Time Compute):…
Which Regularizer Should You Actually Use? Lessons from 134,400 Simulations
A practitioner’s decision framework for Ridge, Lasso, and ElasticNet based on three quantities you can compute before fitting a model…
How a 2021 Quantization Algorithm Quietly Outperforms Its 2026 Successor
One scale parameter determines accuracy in rotation-based vector quantization. The post How a 2021 Quantization Algorithm Quietly Outperforms Its 2026…
The Oscars just drew a hard line in the sand: You’re allowed to use AI to help make a movie, but you’re not allowed to use AI actors or writers
Now actors and writers are supposed to be human. As the Academy released its rules for the 99th Academy Awards,…
How to Get Hired in the AI Era
What people actually look for when hiring juniors that stand out. The post How to Get Hired in the AI…
Ghost: A Database for Our Times?
The first database built for AI Agents The post Ghost: A Database for Our Times? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why Powerful Machine Learning Is Deceptively Easy
Or why what appears powerful can be methodologically fragile The post Why Powerful Machine Learning Is Deceptively Easy appeared first…
Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep
The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological…
A Gentle Introduction to Stochastic Programming
How to make decisions when your spreadsheet is lying about the future The post A Gentle Introduction to Stochastic Programming…
Making the case for curiosity-driven science
“The thing that really struck me when I came to MIT and strikes me every single day is the stuff…
Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician
Researching the path to AI-augmented care and development of an AI co-clinician.
How to Study the Monotonicity and Stability of Variables in a Scoring Model using Python
How can you validate that your variables tell a consistent risk? The post How to Study the Monotonicity and Stability…
Why AI Engineers Are Moving Beyond LangChain to Native Agent Architectures
Frameworks accelerated the first wave of LLM apps, but production demands a different architecture. The post Why AI Engineers Are…
DeepSeek’s new AI model is rolling out quietly, not to the Wall Street market shock
DeepSeek’s latest AI model was poised for a major launch. And yet, the markets did not react as expected to…
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
In today’s hospitals and clinics, a dermatologist may use an artificial intelligence model for classifying skin lesions to assess if…
4 YAML Files Instead of PySpark: How We Let Analysts Build Data Pipelines Without Engineers
How we replaced Python pipelines with dlt, dbt, and Trino — and cut delivery time from weeks to one day.…
Ensembles of Ensembles of Ensembles: A Guide to Stacking
The best machine learning model is not one model The post Ensembles of Ensembles of Ensembles: A Guide to Stacking…
Agentic AI: How to Save on Tokens
Caching, lazy-loading, routing, compaction, and more The post Agentic AI: How to Save on Tokens appeared first on Towards Data Science.
System Design Series: Apache Flink from 10,000 Feet, and Building a Flink-powered Recommendation Engine
A deep dive into how Apache Flink works, why it exists, and learning it while building a real-time recommendation engine…
The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM. IBM and MIT today announced…
How AI Policy in South Africa Is Ruining Itself
South Africa has had its first draft national artificial intelligence policy removed following the discovery of fictitious citations in the…
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This…
Let the AI Do the Experimenting
Using autoresearch to optimise marketing campaigns under budget constraints The post Let the AI Do the Experimenting appeared first on…
Correlation Doesn’t Mean Causation! But What Does It Mean?
What does correlation tells us? The post Correlation Doesn’t Mean Causation! But What Does It Mean? appeared first on Towards…
The Next Frontier of AI in Production Is Chaos Engineering
Blast-radius control tells you how much to break. Intent tells you what breaking it will teach. Only one of these…
A Career in Data Is Not Always a Straight Line, and That’s Okay
Sabrine Bendimerad on why flexibility is a crucial data science skill, the risks of outsourcing human thinking to AI agents,…
How Spreadsheets Quietly Cost Supply Chains Millions
A simulation of how a single forecast change moves through five planning teams, and why most retailers lose money in…
Microsoft has loosened its exclusive control over OpenAI, and now the artificial intelligence race appears wide open
Microsoft’s privileged entry into OpenAI’s technology circle is being downgraded significantly. It’s neither a divorce nor a full separation. More…
Comparing Explicit Measures to Calculation Groups in Tabular Models
With the advent of UDFs and their combination with calculation groups, I see a lot of discussion about not creating…