Contents# Introduction# 1. Tool Use and the Model Context Protocol# 2. Memory and Context Engineering# 3. Planning and Reasoning Loops# 4. Multi-Agent Orchestration# 5. Evaluation, Observability, and Guardrails# Wrapping Up # Introduction  If you ask a chatbot to find you a hotel in London, it will give you a list of names and let you do the rest. If you ask an …

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Scientists today face challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity. From shaping and simulating the intricate dynamics of fusion plasma, to exploring the vast search space of new materials, to making sense of the exabytes of data pouring out of the world’s most advanced experimental facilities. The demands on modern research are unprecedented. Frontier AI can …

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Contents1. The number you should not trust2. Agent skills are a new software supply chain3. How SkillSpector scans a skill3.1 Two kinds of check run in parallel3.2 A fourth pass decides what is real3.3 How the score is calculated4. How SkillSpector compares to other tools5. Testing setup5.1 The three skills, and why I picked them5.2 …

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  Contents# Introduction# 1. Harvard’s CS50: Introduction to AI with Python# 2. Google’s Machine Learning Crash Course# 3. fast.ai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders# 4. The Hugging Face NLP Course# 5. ndrej Karpathy’s Neural Networks: Zero to Hero# Wrapping Up # Introduction  The barrier to entry for learning artificial intelligence has never been lower, but the signal-to-noise ratio has never been worse. With …

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ContentsThe ScenarioThe data sourceDo it in Power QueryThis is not practicalDo it in DAXConclusionReferences The Scenario to report on seat ownership. Each seat in the office building must be assigned to an organisational unit (OU). There is a list of all seats, and the owning OU should be set for each seat. But some seats …

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    The European Commission’s latest draft guidelines provide much-needed clarity on how organizations should classify high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the EU AI Act. However, they also raise an important question for enterprises: could your existing AI systems already be considered high-risk without you realizing it? The answer may depend on more …

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, I will give my first impressions of the newest OpenAI model, GPT-5.6. The model was released a few days ago, and I’ve gotten the chance to test it extensively since the release and compare it against other models such as GPT-5.5, Opus 4.8, and Fable 5. I’ll give my judgment on the model, share …

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  Contents# Introduction# AI Agents for Beginners (Microsoft)# Hugging Face AI Agents Course# Building Effective Agents (Anthropic)# Multiagent Systems (Shoham & Leyton-Brown)# Google & Kaggle Agents Whitepaper Series# Where to Go Next # Introduction  Everyone is building agents. Far fewer people can explain, precisely, why their agent loops forever, ignores a tool it was given, or confidently reports success on a task it …

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a marketing mix model to a senior director. The slide showed two beta coefficients side by side: Linear TV at +2.4, Digital TV at +1.8. He nodded, satisfied. Then he asked the question I was dreading. “Let’s assume we run this with last week’s refreshed data. Same channels, same model, same everything, but one extra …

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  Contents# Introduction# 1. Ollama# 2. Smolagents# 3. PydanticAI# 4. CrewAI# 5. AgentScope# 6. LangGraph# 7. Microsoft Agent Framework# Wrapping Up # Introduction  An agent that calls a cloud API for every decision is renting its intelligence. It needs a key, it racks up a bill per token, and every request leaves your machine before you get an answer back. An agent built to run …

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