Everyone’s using AI. Fewer people are using it well. The real advantage isn’t using AI — it’s knowing which layer to reach for, and when. In this post I break down the three distinct layers of the Claude ecosystem and show you exactly how to deploy each one.
Back in rehearsal rooms this week. 🎭 Earlier this week I went back to OSO ARTS CENTRE | The theatre on Barnes Pond for the first table read with the actors I’ll be directing in… Read More »Directing at OSO – Writers’ Studio Spring 2026
Microsoft Expands Copilot’s AI Brain: Why Claude Is Joining the Mix Microsoft has begun quietly reshaping the architecture behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the change tells us a lot about where enterprise AI is heading. Until… Read More »Claude in MS Copilot
Before Mendeleev, chemists had 60 elements and no theory. Before DVMIB, multimodal ML had hundreds of loss functions and no shared language. A team of Emory physicists just changed that — deriving CLIP, Barlow Twins, and VAEs as special cases of one framework, then using it to build something better. Here’s what it means in practice.
I’m very pleased to share that the second edition of “Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python” has now entered production. After months of writing, rewriting, refactoring code, updating examples, and expanding chapters, it’s now… Read More »Advanced Data Science and Analytics — 2nd Ed has entered production
Rethinking NLP in the Second Edition of Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python When I first wrote Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python, natural language processing (NLP) occupied a niche corner of the data… Read More »From Tokens to Transformers
The second edition of Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python features significant updates, focusing on trustworthy model building and practical forecasting. A chapter dedicated to Meta’s Prophet framework discusses its strengths in handling seasonality and trends, emphasising robust evaluation methods to ensure forecasts remain reliable in real-world applications.
Writing a second edition of a technical book is a little like rebooting a long-running sci-fi series. You don’t want to erase the canon, but you do want better special effects, sharper dialogue, and fewer plot holes.… Read More »The Jackalope Returns: A Second Edition For Advanced Data Science
✍️ Ever wondered whether your books could end up as fuel for an AI — without you ever knowing? I discovered two of mine did. Now Anthropic has agreed to pay US $1.5 billion to authors in what may be the first major AI-copyright settlement. This post explores what that means — not just for the cheque, but for the future of creative rights, attribution and consent in the AI era. 🔍📚
I had the joy of directing What’s Going to Happen to Us? at the OSO Theatre’s 2025 Autumn Writers’ Studio Showcase — a beautifully intimate piece about love, uncertainty and the small moments that change everything. Working with the brilliant Nora Holmen and Alfredo Mudie Smart was a genuine privilege, and together we shaped a story that felt both fragile and fiercely human. Grateful, inspired, and already looking forward to the next chapter.