The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 6: Decision Tree Regressor
During the first days of this Machine Learning Advent Calendar, we explored models based on distances. Today, we switch to…
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How We Are Testing Our Agents in Dev
Testing that your AI agent is performing as expected is not easy. Here are a few strategies we learned the…
The Step-by-Step Process of Adding a New Feature to My IOS App with Cursor
Cursor is great at writing code but not as good when it comes to design The post The Step-by-Step Process…
A Product Data Scientist’s Take on LinkedIn Games After 500 Days of Play
What a simple puzzle game reveals about experimentation, product thinking, and data science The post A Product Data Scientist’s Take on…
MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics
Generative AI and robotics are moving us ever closer to the day when we can ask for an object and…
YOLOv1 Paper Walkthrough: The Day YOLO First Saw the World
A detailed walkthrough of the YOLOv1 architecture and its PyTorch implementation from scratch The post YOLOv1 Paper Walkthrough: The Day YOLO…
Homebuying, but Make It AI: How Lloyds Banking Group Is Betting Crypto + Code Will Rewrite the Mortgage Rulebook
Lloyds Bank is betting on a future where purchasing a home might be as easy as pushing a button – thanks…
On the Challenge of Converting TensorFlow Models to PyTorch
How to upgrade and optimize legacy AI/ML models The post On the Challenge of Converting TensorFlow Models to PyTorch appeared…
Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting
There are some jobs human bodies just weren’t meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling…
Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem
A new NeurIPS 2025 paper shows how self-supervised learning imbues ViT with better image understanding than supervised learning The post…
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 4: k-Means in Excel
How to implement a training algorithm that finally looks like “real” machine learning The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar”…
Engineering more resilient crops for a warming climate
Scientists are using AlphaFold to strengthen a photosynthesis enzyme for resilient, heat-tolerant crops.
Build and Deploy Your First Supply Chain App in 20 Minutes
A factory operator that discovered happiness by switching from notebook to streamlit – (Image Generated with GPT-5.1 by Samir Saci)…
Mom! They’ve Got Her – But It Was Just AI”: How a “Real-Life Horror Movie” Played Out in Kansas
A scary call. A frantic 911 report. Police racing to stop what they thought was a kidnapping – only to…
Bootstrap a Data Lakehouse in an Afternoon
Using Apache Iceberg on AWS with Athena, Glue/Spark and DuckDB The post Bootstrap a Data Lakehouse in an Afternoon appeared first…
The Architecture Behind Web Search in AI Chatbots
And what this means for generative engine optimization (GEO) The post The Architecture Behind Web Search in AI Chatbots appeared…
A smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
To make large language models (LLMs) more accurate when answering harder questions, researchers can let the model spend more time…
MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble…
Overcoming the Hidden Performance Traps of Variable-Shaped Tensors: Efficient Data Sampling in PyTorch
PyTorch Model Performance Analysis and Optimization — Part 11 The post Overcoming the Hidden Performance Traps of Variable-Shaped Tensors: Efficient…
Helping power-system planners prepare for an unknown future
A new computer modeling tool developed by an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) research team will help infrastructure planners working in…
How to Turn Your LLM Prototype into a Production-Ready System
The most famous applications of LLMs are the ones that I like to call the “wow effect LLMs.” There are…
This Isn’t a Movie – It’s AI”: How Runway Gen‑4.5 Just Raised the Bar for Text-to-Video AI
You could be forgiven for thinking that this is the beginning of a sci-fi movie script. “But no – it’s only…
How to Code Your Own Website with AI
Learn how to vibe-code your own website The post How to Code Your Own Website with AI appeared first on…
AlphaFold: Five years of impact
Explore how AlphaFold has accelerated science and fueled a global wave of biological discovery.
New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real…
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 2: k-NN Classifier in Excel
Exploring the k-NN classifier with its variants and improvements The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 2: k-NN Classifier…
JSON Parsing for Large Payloads: Balancing Speed, Memory, and Scalability
Benchmarking JSON libraries for large payloads The post JSON Parsing for Large Payloads: Balancing Speed, Memory, and Scalability appeared first…
How to Use Simple Data Contracts in Python for Data Scientists
Stop your pipelines from breaking on Friday afternoons using simple, open-source validation with Pandera. The post How to Use Simple…
AI Meets the Everyday Hustle: QuickBooks’ New Campaign Shows How Small Businesses Can Finally Breathe
The latest global campaign from Intuit QuickBooks and FCB feels like one of those sort of moments, when tech moves…
How to Generate QR Codes in Python
A beginner-friendly tutorial exploring the Python “qrcode” Package The post How to Generate QR Codes in Python appeared first on…
MIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
Norway is the world’s largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon and a top exporter of seafood, while the United States…
The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned This Month
Christmas connections, Copilot’s costs, careful (no-)choices The post The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned This Month appeared first on Towards…
Exploring how AI will shape the future of work
“MIT hasn’t just prepared me for the future of work — it’s pushed me to study it. As AI systems…
The Problem with AI Browsers: Security Flaws and the End of Privacy
How Atlas and most current AI-powered browsers fail on three aspects: privacy, security, and censorship The post The Problem with…
Learning, Hacking, and Shipping ML
Vyacheslav Efimov on AI hackathons, data science roadmaps, and how AI meaningfully changed day-to-day ML Engineer work The post Learning,…
Why AI Alignment Starts With Better Evaluation
You can’t align what you don’t evaluate The post Why AI Alignment Starts With Better Evaluation appeared first on Towards…
Hidden Vulnerabilities: Study Shows ChatGPT and Gemini Still Trickable Despite Safety Training
Worries over A.I. safety flared anew this week as new research found that the most popular chatbots from tech giants…
The Machine Learning and Deep Learning “Advent Calendar” Series: The Blueprint
Opening the black box of ML models, step by step, directly in Excel The post The Machine Learning and Deep…
The Greedy Boruta Algorithm: Faster Feature Selection Without Sacrificing Recall
A modification to the Boruta algorithm that dramatically reduces computation while maintaining high sensitivity The post The Greedy Boruta Algorithm:…
When AI Isn’t the Inventor: US Patent Office Sets New Ground Rules for AI-Assisted Inventions
The rules have just changed - and if you were thinking that whizzy new idea cooked up by your amazing AI…
Metric Deception: When Your Best KPIs Hide Your Worst Failures
The most dangerous KPIs aren’t broken; they’re the ones trusted long after they’ve lost their meaning. The post Metric Deception:…
How to Scale Your LLM usage
Learn how to increase LLM usage to achieve increased productivity The post How to Scale Your LLM usage appeared first…
Data Science in 2026: Is It Still Worth It?
An honest view from a 10-year AI Engineer The post Data Science in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? appeared…
Why We’ve Been Optimizing the Wrong Thing in LLMs for Years
The simple shift in training that unlocks foresight, faster inference, and better reasoning. The post Why We’ve Been Optimizing the…
The Product Health Score: How I Reduced Critical Incidents by 35% with Unified Monitoring and n8n Automation
How product, growth and engineering teams can converge on a single signal for better incident management The post The Product…
When Photoshop Gets Smoother – And Wack-Cool – With AI’s “Banana Boost
You know that image you have, of a day when Photoshop might work like the computer in “Star Trek”? Choose…
TDS Newsletter: November Must-Reads on GraphRAG, ML Projects, LLM-Powered Time-Series Analysis, and More
Don’t miss our most-read stories of the past month The post TDS Newsletter: November Must-Reads on GraphRAG, ML Projects, LLM-Powered…
Neuro-Symbolic Systems as Compression, Coordination, and Alignment
Neural and symbolic models compress the world in fundamentally different ways, and Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) offer a bridge to connect…
Everyday Decisions are Noisier Than You Think — Here’s How AI Can Help Fix That
From insurance premiums to courtrooms: the impact of noise The post Everyday Decisions are Noisier Than You Think — Here’s…
Implementing the Rock Paper Scissors Game in Python
A beginner-friendly Python tutorial using conditionals and the random module The post Implementing the Rock Paper Scissors Game in Python…