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Building my first dbt models and learning what “analysis-ready” data actually means
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Why use it? How to implement it? What can we do when it fails?
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Many Transformer explainers start with the finished architecture. We ask why it looks the way…
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Building a production-ready web interface for a stateful LangGraph agent
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From Static Plots to Interactive Data Exploration
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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #12] – The category of question most RAG pipelines silently fail…
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Faster dataframe engines are nice, but they don’t reduce the amount of syntax an analyst…
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How a single evaluation choice inflated my results by 25 points, and what rebuilding honestly…
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A step-by-step guide to building a data agent and conversational interface that let business users…
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The downside of conference travel
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A minimal loop with real API calls, validation, compact outputs, and trace evidence before adding…
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An open, 2.8-trillion-parameter model shipped with 47 pages of its own recipe. Reading it tells…
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A primer about Semi-Supervised Learning, the approaches taken with different algorithms and the limitations of…
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Perform non-programming tasks with coding agents
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How a seemingly harmless move to a multi-agent architecture quietly tripled our LLM costs and…
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A friendly introduction to one of the most powerfull optimization techniques using the uncapacitated facility…
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Why prediction-driven variable selection misses confounders and how Bayesian Adjustment for Confounding attempts to fix…
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From custom integrations to a universal standard for tool access
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Using mathematical optimization to solve a pickup-and-delivery problem with time windows.
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The mean keeps making its usefulness felt in all sorts of situations, often in truly…
The Variable Newsletter
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Authors can now benefit from updated earning tiers and a higher article cap
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Sorting through the good, bad, and ambiguous aspects of vibe coding
Deep Dives
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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #11] – When the first answer points elsewhere in the document,…
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An online simulation and a novel method for increasing power
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Data Storytelling Series, Chapter 1
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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M2] – Every RAG system is built in three engineering layers…
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Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This…
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Building an ALNS heuristic in Python for vehicle routing, time windows, capacity constraints, and mandatory…