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“ChatgPT for Excel came out this week... it can read your data and it can also add data to the sheet... teams can describe what they need in plain language and chat GPT will create or update live Excel…”
“they launched scheduled tasks in Claude Code... There's also a new code review feature inside of Cloud Code... Apparently, Anthropic uses this code review internally.”
“Google rolled out a new update to maps. You can use it to ask maps questions and have conversations about your surroundings.”
“Google also rolled out some new Gemini features in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive... go to a first draft instantly. You could polish things. You could match the voice or writing style.”
“Box should win. Box should reacelerate to 20 or 30%... It has all the AI and it has the data. It has trillions of documents, right, that you can't even find. Now I can talk to my documents.”
“They bought Moveworks just now and they said, you know, hey, we have we had an AI story before we bought a small company clearly getting some traction... I thought it was kind of a shrewd move.”
“I worked at Survey Monkey for a couple years and this was one of the things that we did was like to make sure the voice of the customer was sort of both programmatically pulled into the company”
“Apple is partnering with Google Gemini right smart strategy in your opinion? I think it's the only strategy right now for them.”
“If you open up Siri now, you can ask either Chat GBT or Siri a question.”
“You see what Microsoft does with Windows and it feels a little like they're cramming too much AI in your face, you know, with co-pilot there.”
“We propose T-Learners layered into the G-Formula for this setting, building on literature from causal machine learning and identification in sequential settings.”
“Meta's new Muse Spark model is getting lavished with praise by Wall Street...this model is still below the capability of chat GPT and Claude...maybe Wall Street needs to chill out on this one.”
“you can go to rw.xyz XYZ. You can see there's six different versions of tokenized coin which none of them is actually equity on Coinbase.”
“There's this webpage called the Risk List, uh it's uh spelled uh with a Q instead of a C, uh by this company called Project 11, where they have this uh you know, this dashboard that gives you a live v…”
“Yeah Quen 36 looks like a really good model. I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet. I definitely will.”
“SAM audio is a cutting-edge audio model with applications for musicians, audio engineers, video creators, and tinkerers of all skill levels. Learn more about SAM Audio today.”
“Steve Newman, who's been doing some great writing about AI on his Substack newsletter, gives a good example of this in the context of his being disappointed over GPT5.”
“If you want to understand mythos, you need to understand how Anthropic actually organizes their models. So at the bottom you've got Haiku, which is cheap and lightweight. Then you've got Sonic, which …”
“If your Android phone has 8 GB of RAM or more and was released in the last few years, you can probably run the Gemma 4 models. If it has 12 GB of RAM, you can probably handle the models too.”
“And of course, the smaller the model is, you can see down here you've got Gemma 3 1 billion parameters that is going to be a model that is going to be easily run on the older devices that we mentioned…”
“Something slightly more accessible, which you might have heard of before, is the Ising model. This is a model of a magnet which consists of a bunch of tiny magnetic elements arranged in a grid, each o…”
“This is called the XY model. If you are curious and want to learn more, all of these models can also be considered in three dimensions, or even higher, or on other strange non euclidean geometries.”
“If you are using certain open- source models, maybe they may not have the same performance as Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.4 or GPT 5.3 codecs. And you should take that into account because remember every single…”
“We present gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight reasoning models that push the frontier of accuracy and inference cost.”
“We propose CRISP, which instead jointly ranks all cited papers within a citing paper using large language models (LLMs).”
“Access to my Content Catalyst custom-built AI tool that help you write content that actually sells.”
“you could save a lot of money by working with GPT 40 mini instead of GPT 40”
“Quick start: the Iris dataset in Keras and scikit-learn”
“We also include results for Command R7B which shares capability and architectural similarities to Command A.”
“for um try uploading stuff uploading files it's pretty phenomenal if you've got a really long you know paper to read”
“images in images out um ... there's a lot of cool stuff you're ricking on a birthday card you're probably going to want to use both um make a little Custom Image”
“you can go online test it for yourself the the web address is there”
“we think we got there earlier this year um with the o1 release”
“tell me what's your favorite open AI API I think the new realtime API is pretty awesome”
“When these EMVS methods are compared to Stochastic Search Variable Selection (SSVS), the EMVS methods surpass SSVS both in terms of computational speed and correctly identifying significant variables.”
“To preserve the computational speed of EMVS we also implemented the Stochastic Dual Coordinate Descent (SDCA) algorithm.”
“I'd recommend using neotron 340b to enhance and make it better and we've already seen made llama better made all the other models better”
“you can see with music, you can see you know uh Suno and IDO and so forth.”
“at the moment I've got vs code with co-pilot and I've got cursor and I've got Zed I'm still sticking in vs code co-pilot is the one that I use every day”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“Using pre-trained word embeddings in a Keras model”
“Andrej Karpathy confirmed it. The CLIs to install today: GitHub CLI ( gh ) - Claude is aggressively competent at it.”
“Firecrawl CLI - Clean web scraping without MCP overhead.”
“The make slides skill from the episode includes Puppeteer so Claude can screenshot its HTML output, measure text overflow, and fix issues automatically.”
“The web research skill replaces Claude’s unreliable default web search (basically Google first-page results) with Tavily for higher-quality search and Firecrawl for clean markdown scraping.”
“Tell Claude “use your ask user questions tool” and it generates a custom UI with checkboxes and input fields right inside the terminal.”
“The answer is Jupyter notebooks . Tell Claude “analyze this data in a Jupyter notebook” and it creates a .ipynb file showing every query as a code cell, every result as output, every chart rendered in…”
“All mutations are done via [Server Actions](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/data-fetching/server-actions-and-mutations)”
“He built a successful book summary platform called ReadIt. for me backed by billionaire investor and read a book a day for 10 years.”
“Welcome to E-arketer's weekly retail show, Reimagining Retail, an e-arketer podcast made possible by Rocked.”
“I'm I'm going to talk about a good way, a positive way because I I I don't really have anything bad to say about everyone who is out there working so hard. But I I was told to go check out Google's bo…”
“I think one really strong opportunity to add value is in the retailer and brandowned assistance. What we saw from our survey is that a lot of these AI assisted shoppers were already using the generalp…”
“In this work, I introduce Orkan, a simulation library...”
“Benchmarks against Qiskit Aer, QuEST, and Qulacs...”
“Benchmarks against Qiskit Aer, QuEST, and Qulacs...”
“I think what Amazon has been doing with Rufus and its own AI and embedding it throughout more of its site and app in different contexts is really interesting because then they're kind of promoting thi…”
“So, so what it's done since kind of chat GPT rode back a little bit on instant checkout. It's going to embed its own sparky assistant into chat GPT.”
“I've been reading the MLF blog on the Bloomberg terminal. You can read it too. MLIVgo uh is what you type.”
“Did you see the cereus has um a new llm that runs on phones that I reallys last night and this is Magic right because it crunches down you know it compresses a lot of human knowledge into that llm tha…”
“you could take the video or audio from this conversation stick it into chat GPT through Whisperers API”
“mind CB connects a lot of data and makes it really easy to run machine learning applications models”
“I also work on speech recognition it's called The Deep speech system like one of the first large scale end to end speech recognition for English and Chinese”
“And that's quite different to what is happening here with the online safety bill where social media companies have to basically age check the people who are using them in order to filter that content …”
“She's led a campaign to force them to try and change their products to protect children through her organisation, the Five Rights Foundation, as well as doing many other things, such as pushing throug…”
“And on the homepage of that, you can click on a button and see the entire table of contents in detail. So, you know, what exactly we're talking about. And there's another button that will display. And…”
“And we'll link to it in the show notes, this researcher named Andrew Stokols, he has a really good sub-stack called Sino-Cities”
“Uses [Drizzle ORM](https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/overview) and Zod as the data layer”
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“We introduce PDDL-Mind, a neuro-symbolic framework that decouples environment state evolution from belief inference.”
“We introduce QNAS, a neural architecture search framework that unifies hardware aware evaluation, multi objective optimization, and cutting overhead awareness for hybrid quantum classical neural netwo…”
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“We also wrap it in a tool that supports flexible choices of datasets and utility functions, enabling users to target the kinds of questions they care about.”
“We demonstrate Peerispect through a live, publicly available demo (https://app.reviewer.ly/app/peerispect) and API services, accompanied by a video tutorial.”
“if anybody goes to our website which is just my name jasonhartman.com and you click on the properties page and you look at the performers and the properties you'll see that we even have properties now…”
“Universal Paperclips as design inspiration: choosing weird over polished on purpose”
“I do. And we I set up a website called moneyhabitbank.com. So you can find banks that support this.”
“There's one bank in particular that's really aggressive. It's called dreamfirst. And when I say aggressive, they're actively supporting this and love it. And they focus on personal finances.”
“It is. It is moneyhabit mentors and we have 40 certified mentors already. And so moneyhabitmentors.com is the website.”
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“Check out TidyCall.com. Think of it like Shopify for coaches or consultants. We have been improving it like crazy with subscriptions, better design landing pages, reviews, and more. It's also free. F-…”
“Kill all of it. Every single subscription and put the entire company on one plan. Anthropics Clawed Team Plan. $24,000 a year. Every single teammate gets a seat. We called it Clawed For All.”
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“Among the evaluated architectures, TSCeption achieved the highest average accuracy (0.907) and Macro-F1 score (0.901).”
“We systematically address these questions on the LEXam benchmark”
“confirming Chorus as a practical tool for generating high-quality deliberation data suitable for online discourse analysis”
“An accompanying open-source interactive tool, the Co-creation Provenance Lab, enables policymakers to audit and iteratively improve summaries, establishing genuine human-in-the-loop oversight at scale…”
“Auditing tools such as SliceFinder and SliceLine were proposed to detect such groups, but usually have conceptual disadvantages, such as the inability to directly address continuous covariates.”
“Through simulation studies that include a direct comparison with SliceLine, we demonstrate that both approaches have a satisfactory rate of false-positive results.”
“Keras video tutorials from Dan Van Boxel”
“All methods are available through qdisc, an open-source Python library designed to make these tools accessible to the broader community.”
“our best model, which was finetuned from the pre-trained WavLM model with the proposed three-stage training strategy, achieve the Accuracy of 0.98, F1 Score of 0.95, AuC of 0.99”
“we instantiate this paradigm via EVIAN (Explainable Visual Instruction-tuning Data AuditiNg), an automated framework that evaluates these components along the orthogonal axes of Image-Text Consistency…”
“This paper proposes LayerTracer, an architecture-agnostic end-to-end analysis framework compatible with any LLM architecture.”
“make your default homepage chat GPT Bard or Poe from core or whatever whichever one you want the sandbox or playground if you're a developer and just take make a list of everything you do every day an…”
“Collection of tutorials setting up DNNs with Keras”
“When you use a command line tool, like the one I was using this morning is called Google Workspace command line interface. It doesn't use AI. So it's all programmatic text-based interface, sort of Zor…”
“We've talked before about the Trust Insights page scanner that you can just get a report of how your site's doing. We've actually got the pro version open now that we'll scan the whole site. That's no…”