Pick a Number Between 1 and 10
A viral tweet says LLMs pick 7 because of gradient descent. The math says it’s more interesting than that. The post Pick a Number Between 1 and 10 appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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Binning or Feature Selection: Which One Won Us an Insurance Hackathon?
For a year, we believed that supervised binning carried our winning entry to an insurance competition. After four seeds per arm and one shared feature set, the credit belongs elsewhere. The post Binning or Feature…
Your Agent’s Tools Can Make Decisions, Too
Decision models as tools: a hands-on guide The post Your Agent’s Tools Can Make Decisions, Too appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Claude Code Mods: Custom Hooks to Fix My Biggest AI Coding Frustrations
How I built four Claude Code mods to protect API keys, track plan progress, catch untested code, and monitor context usage — with 135 passing tests and up to 100× less overhead than traditional hooks — and why they can…
😸 Mistral released a 1T-parameter open model
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Understand What You Mean, Not Just What You Say
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to understand what you mean when your instructions leave something unsaid. Its updated Model Spec explains how remembered preferences should inform responses and when an agent needs permission. The…
Everything That Happened in AI Today (Friday, October 30, 2026)
OpenAI tested AI monitors against a previous agent escape; Reddit blamed AI search for lost traffic; Canada backed Cohere; Mistral opened its trillion-parameter model; and Anthropic expanded its science partnerships.