Half of IT leaders say Copilot transformed how their people work. Half say the free version would do. Both are right, and that makes the ROI problem a pricing problem. Read more here.
What if the biggest barrier to successful AI adoption isn’t the model, the data, or even the technology itself?
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
Solaris, a parade of Linux shells, the occasional PowerShell detour — and always, stubbornly, back to the native macOS Terminal with my hand-tuned zsh setup. Then a passing mention on Talk Python to Me got… Read More »Warp, From a Long-Time Terminal User
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
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… Read More »Proofs for Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python – Done
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… Read More »Keynote Speaker at the XXII Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies in the UK
Three claims in the GPT-5.5 launch. Two are vibes. One is measurable, and it’s the one nobody’s talking about. Plus why the Codex angle matters more than the model itself, and the agentic promise to… Read More »GPT 5.5 – The Smartest Model Yet (Again)
What if most prompt engineering advice is just working around a flaw? A new Google Research paper shows that repeating your prompt, literally copy and paste, can significantly improve AI performance. This isn’t a hack.… Read More »Say It Twice: The Quiet Hack That Exposes How AI Actually Works
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)