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 times less isn’t better science. It’s just wrong sooner. Which could be a good thing.
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, and why resting without guilt was the real breakthrough.
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 dresses that problem. Read the update for more info.
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 author, educator and technologist.
Now, after writing three additional books, revising two of them for second editions, and spending more than a decade working in data science, machine learning and AI, I am returning to where it all began. Revisiting a first book is a curious experience: some ideas feel timeless, others reveal how much both the technology and the author have evolved.
In this post, I reflect on the lessons learned from writing technical books, how MATLAB, Octave and scientific computing have changed since 2014, and why the second edition is about much more than updating syntax and screenshots. At its heart, it remains a book about computational thinking—a skill that has become even more relevant in the age of AI.
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 without losing sight of the human element. Accessible, practical, and thought-provoking, it offers valuable insights into neuroplasticity, emotional regulation, and the biological foundations of change.
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
OpenAI quietly admitted something with the Codex mobile launch: agents aren’t autonomous enough to leave alone. The phone is now the leash. Here’s what that means for governance, throughput, and the metric you should actually be tracking.
After more than a year of writing, revising and proof-checking, I’ve finally completed the proofs for the second edition of Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python. The new edition expands coverage of transformers, generative AI, large language models, vector search, graph embeddings and modern deployment workflows — reflecting just how dramatically the AI landscape has evolved since 2020.
Ghost calls itself “the first database built for agents.” Strip the marketing varnish and what you’ve actually got is a forkable Postgres workflow that quietly redraws how developers experiment — and how easily disposable infrastructure can become disposable thinking.
A keynote at Christ Church, Oxford for the XXIII Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies in the UK. Talked about the unlikely arc from physics to AI and innovation leadership, and why the most useful conversations of the day were the ones that never made it to the microphone.