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A box I did not order, containing a book I did write. The second edition of “Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python” landed yesterday. Rebuilt, not reprinted. Code generation is nearly free; judgement is… Read More »The Box Arrived – Advanced Data Science and Analytics is here
Mathematical monsters, Gödel’s constitutional loophole, and modelling a pandemic with the clock running. Kucharski’s Proof is about the gap between being right and being believed.
OpenAI’s model didn’t go rogue — it went Houdini, understanding the box better than the people who built it and letting itself out into Hugging Face’s servers. What the sandbox escape really reveals about obedient… Read More »Houdini in the Sandbox – OpenAI model goes “rogue”
I wrote a children’s book, then tried to illustrate it — and the same girl wouldn’t survive thirty pages. The problem wasn’t my prompts. It was that the model has no object permanence, and no… Read More »Creating Consistent Characters with AI
They called it Science, but every domain, database and case study is biology, yet other sciences are absent from the product. And a tool that runs ten times faster while checking its own work ten… Read More »Claude Science – Who checks the Chemistry?
Thirty days, one shared spreadsheet, and a room full of writers who turned out not to be rivals but pacers. Notes from a TWJ community challenge on what daily accountability gives you, where it bites,… Read More »Reams of Paper, Together: What 30 Days of Writing Taught Us
Welcome Claude Code Artifacts – Claude can now build web pages that publish themselves. The pitch is fewer status updates — but the bottleneck was never communication. It was trust, and a self-updating page only… Read More »Claude Code Artifacts – The Page that Published itself
Twelve years ago, I published my first book, Essential MATLAB and Octave. What began as an introduction to scientific computing for students and engineers became the starting point of a much larger journey as an… Read More »Essential MATLAB and Octave – 2nd Ed. Returning to my First Book
A fascinating exploration of the connection between neuroscience and counselling practice, A Counselor’s Introduction to Neuroscience by Bill McHenry, Angela M. Sikorski, and Jim McHenry explains how advances in brain science can inform therapeutic work… Read More »Now Reading: A Counselor’s Introduction to Neuroscience
That’s the part worth slowing down for. Not because the rest of the keynote was bad, au contraire, but because it is worth spending some time on this. Credit first, because it’s earned. This is… Read More »WWDC26 – The Announcements