Google’s latest Gemini update brings AI music generation, an upgraded on-device model called Nano Banana 2, and grounded APA citations for scientific papers. Three very different capabilities, one clear signal: Google is betting the generalist… Read More »Gemini Just Got Weird (In a Good Way)
Apple Business launches 14th April across 200+ countries, replacing Apple Business Manager, Business Essentials, and Business Connect with a single unified platform. Built-in MDM, Zero-Touch deployment, business email with your own domain, app distribution, and… Read More »Apple Business: One Platform to Replace Three
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… Read More »The Claude Ecosystem – Different Tools for Different Jobs
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,… Read More »A Periodic Table for AI
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… Read More »Forecasting the Future: Time Series, Prophets, and Cross-Validation
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