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screening system checks a name against a watchlist, it faces a silent failure mode that nobody talks about. Type “Владимир Путин” into a system indexed on “Vladimir Putin” and most name-matching approaches return nothing. The two strings share zero characters, so edit distance is meaningless, phonetic codes fail (they assume Latin), and BM25 gives up …

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Image by Author   # Introduction  OpenClaw is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about open-source agent systems right now. But beyond the hype, the real question is simple: what are people actually using it for? At its core, OpenClaw helps turn AI from something you chat with into something that can actually do work for …

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series about Reinforcement Learning (RL), following Sutton and Barto’s famous book “Reinforcement Learning” [1]. In the previous posts we finished dissecting Part I of said book, which introduces fundamental solution techniques which form the basis for many RL methods. These are: Dynamic Programming (DP), Monte Carlo methods (MC) and Temporal Difference Learning (TD). What separates …

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Image by Editor   # Introduction  If you want to learn agent engineering by doing instead of just reading about it, the best way is still to fork real repos, run them locally, and change them for your own use. This is where the real learning happens. I’ve hand-picked the best 10 ones, the projects that …

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(TFL) is a statutory body responsible for London’s public transport network, managing buses, the Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Overground, and major roads. Their ‘Open Data’ policy means that they share much of their internal data with the public, which they say is currently powering over 600 apps for Londoners. One interesting data source they share …

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Image by Author   # Introduction  We live in an exciting era where you can run a powerful artificial intelligence coding assistant directly on your own computer, completely offline, without paying a monthly subscription fee. This article will show you how to build a free, local artificial intelligence coding setup by combining three powerful tools: OpenCode, …

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a second: as a data scientist, you’ve been through this scenario (chances are, more than once). Someone stopped you mid-conversation and asked you, “What exactly does a p-value mean?” I am also very certain that your answer to that question was different when you first started your data science journey, vs a couple of months …

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Image by Author   # Introduction  Every day, customer service centers record thousands of conversations. Hidden in those audio files are goldmines of information. Are customers satisfied? What problems do they mention most often? How do emotions shift during a call?Manually analyzing these recordings is challenging. However, with modern artificial intelligence (AI), we can automatically transcribe …

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Today in the Gemini app, we’re unveiling a new image editing model from Google DeepMind. People have been going bananas over it already in early previews — it’s the top-rated image editing model in the world. Now, we’re excited to share that it’s integrated into the Gemini app so you have more control than ever …

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In my last article, I shared how to use MCP to integrate LLMs into your full data science workflow. I also briefly mentioned another .  A skill is a reusable package of instructions and optional supporting files. It helps AI handle a recurring workflow more reliably and consistently. At a minimum, it needs a SKILL.md …

Beyond Prompting: Using Agent Skills in Data Science Read More »