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What I Am Doing to Stay Relevant as a Senior Analytics Consultant in 2026

for analytics. Generative AI isn't any longer a side experiment or productivity hack. With increased access to generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and AI-native features embedded across the analytics tools and platforms in...

Prompt Fidelity: Measuring How Much of Your Intent an AI Agent Actually Executes

Spotify just shipped “Prompted Playlists” in beta. I built just a few playlists and discovered that the LLM behind the agent tries to meet your request, but fails since it doesn’t know enough but...

AWS vs. Azure: A Deep Dive into Model Training – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, how Azure and AWS take fundamentally different approaches to machine learning project management and data storage. Azure ML uses a workspace-centric structure with user-level role-based access control (RBAC),...

YOLOv2 & YOLO9000 Paper Walkthrough: Higher, Faster, Stronger

— that’s the ambitious title the authors selected for his or her paper introducing each YOLOv2 and YOLO9000. The title of the paper itself is “” , which was published back in December 2016. The...

Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Scalable High-Performance Policy Optimization

on Real-World Problems is Hard Reinforcement learning looks straightforward in controlled settings: well-defined states, dense rewards, stationary dynamics, unlimited simulation. Most benchmark results are produced under those assumptions. Observations are partial and noisy, rewards...

Creating an Etch A Sketch App Using Python and Turtle

and History of the Etch-a-Sketch Tablet The Etch-a-Sketch tablet was one of the vital interesting toy creations of the late Nineteen Fifties. The Etch-a-Sketch is largely a tablet look-alike; the red frame has a...

Multi-Attribute Decision Matrices, Done Right

decision matrices (MADM) are a useful methodology for comparing multiple alternatives and choosing the alternative that most closely fits your needs and budget. By evaluating a set of criteria for every option, you'll be...

The Unbearable Lightness of Coding

A month ago, I built a full retrieval system with embeddings, hybrid search, and a GUI in about 25 hours. Last weekend, I spent two days attempting to fix a bug in it —...

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