Posts in Category: AI (50)

Insights, tutorials, and breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, including deep learning, neural networks, and generative models.

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What can you do? Testing AI Agents, Gemini Argon and Claude

I have a benchmark prompt that I use to evaluate AI agent capabilities. The GitHub repository for the benchmark prompt is here. Every time a new model or agent drops,...

AI 18 min read
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving: How Robotaxis and Driverless Buses Work Today

Robotaxis with nobody in the driver's seat now carry paying passengers in several cities, and full-size electric buses run timetabled routes without a driver at the wheel. Both are SAE...

AI 14 min read
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The Six Levels of Autonomous Driving: From Driver Assist to the Level 3 Handover

When car companies advertise driver-assist software, they often blur the line between convenient driver aids and true driverless autonomy. Marketing terms like "Autopilot," "Full Self-Driving," and "hands-free assist" make it...

AI 21 min read
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When LLMs Become Scientific Instruments: Groundsource Flash Flood Research Report

A deep dive into Google's 2.6-million-event flood dataset: what the data shows, what claims hold up, and why the methodology matters more than the dataset itself. Resources: Enriched Dataset |...

AI 18 min read
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How Aleksa Gordić Broke into AI Engineering Without a Degree in AI

Entering artificial intelligence often looks impossible without a master's degree, a PhD, or years inside elite academic research labs. Yet one of the clearest case studies of breaking into frontier...

AI 6 min read
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Geographic Concentration of Machine Learning Models: How Compute Economics Re-Engineered the AI Map

When you look at where notable artificial intelligence models come from, the global map looks empty. In the 2024 Stanford AI Index Report, researchers tracked 149 notable machine learning systems...

AI 14 min read
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Coding the Mean, Median and Mode in Python - TensorTonic

For anyone unfamiliar with TensorTonic, it is often described as the "LeetCode of machine learning", a platform designed for developers to practice algorithms, refine data science techniques, and build machine...

AI 12 min read
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AI Companies Want to Keep Free AI Models Legal But The Company Behind Claude Wants a Safety Net First.

On July 24, 2026, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and more than 20 other companies and organizations published an open letter, "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," urging Washington not to restrict...

AI 6 min read
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BW By Bright Wiredu Nuakoh

Africa Has the ML Talent But Missing the GPUs.

One challenge I have noticed throughout my academic journey and as a TA is that access to computing resources, especially GPUs, has become a major bottleneck for many students especially...

AI 2 min read
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Anthropic partners with SpaceX to Improve Compute Capacity with Colossus 1

On 6th of May, 2026 Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, announced a major deal for exclusive access to Colossus 1. This massive supercomputer facility, located in Memphis, represents a...

AI 2 min read
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Give Me 8 Minutes To Show What You Can Actually Do With NVIDIA's Model Catalog- The AI Superstore:

If you visit the NVIDIA Build catalog today, you are greeted by a massive list of numbers, acronyms, and technical jargon. You will see names like "Nemotron," "Gemma," and "Mistral."...

AI 8 min read
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Why is Nvidia Selling API Keys Now? The Plain English Guide to NIMs and the AI Cloud

The landscape of artificial intelligence is shifting rapidly. For years, Nvidia was known primarily as a hardware company that manufactured the powerful Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) required for gaming and...

AI 6 min read
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The Right AI Model for the Job: A Practical Guide

Not all AI models are built the same. Some excel at reasoning through complex logic puzzles, while others are masterfully tuned to transcribe audio with near-human accuracy. Matching the model...

AI 8 min read
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Before You Upgrade to Antigravity Google AI Pro, Read About This 5-Day Quota Glitch Locking Users Out of The IDE

TL;DR: Google’s agent-first IDE, Antigravity , launched with massive promises (multi-model support, deep CLI/browser integration, and reasoning modes) along with a 5-hour quota reset. However, it is currently locking AI...

AI 5 min read
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How Google Turned 5 Million News Articles into a Flash Flood Warning System

Google just announced (March 13th, 2026) that it can predict urban flash floods up to 24 hours in advance, for most of the world, without building a single physical sensor....

AI 7 min read
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Google Bans Hundreds of Paying Antigravity Users for Using OpenClaw - Then Says "We Heard You"

The Google Antigravity OpenClaw controversy erupted in mid-February 2026, when numerous users of Google's agentic development platform Antigravity (powered by Gemini models) suddenly found their accounts restricted or banned. The...

AI 4 min read
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How Google DeepMind Animated 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors' and What One-Click AI Video Tools Miss

In Part 1 of this series, I tested Luma Labs' Dream Machine with a simple picture of bees. The result was... well, let's call it "biologically creative." While the AI...

AI 5 min read
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Is Now Available in Google Antigravity

Google officially announced that Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Google Antigravity This brings enhanced AI capabilities, better coding workflows, and a much smoother agentic experience directly into your...

AI 3 min read
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OpenClaw, The Viral AI Agent That's Actually Doing Real Work An Article by Grok

Hello, Richard here. There's a new AI big tool in town called OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot, Moltbot) It's making waves with some incredible demos. However, I noticed that Elon Musk's AI...

AI 5 min read
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How One Blog Post Wiped $30B Off IBM: The 24 Hours That Shook Silicon Valley

The tech world is more than accustomed to disruption, but the events of Monday, February 23, 2026, were something else entirely. In a single afternoon, a concise blog post from...

AI 5 min read
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How to Install OpenClaw with Installation Requirements

OpenClaw is an open-source, autonomous personal AI assistant (often described as an "AI agent" or "agent platform") that runs locally on your own hardware. Released in late 2025 (initially as...

AI 4 min read
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How Kaggle Competitions Help You Practise Machine Learning on Real Problems

Imagine a place where data scientists from around the world gather to solve real-world problems, compete for substantial prizes, and build their careers. That's Kaggle competitions in a nutshell -...

AI 3 min read
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Jeremy Howard on Using AI to Make Up for the Shortage of Doctors in Developing Countries

Jeremy Howard, a prominent figure in artificial intelligence and healthcare innovation, highlights a critical issue in global healthcare: developing nations have less than 10% of the medical experts they need....

AI 2 min read
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Answer.AI Launches: A New Chapter in Practical AI Development

A groundbreaking AI venture has emerged with the launch of Answer.AI, a novel R&D laboratory founded by Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries with $10 million in funding from Decibel VC....

AI 2 min read
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Review: Google Antigravity License Agreement and First Impressions

Google’s new Antigravity code editor promises a revolution where AI agents write and test code for you, but the fine print reveals a potential privacy nightmare. This review uncovers buried...

AI 9 min read
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Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Specialization: The Updated Stanford Course for Beginners

The Machine Learning Specialization , created by Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI, is a revamped and modernized version of the original Stanford Machine Learning course, one of the most popular and...

AI 3 min read
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How Google forecasts Weather and Air Quality Data

Google's weather forecasts are created using an internal forecasting system that combines weather models and observations from various global weather agencies. The primary data sources for Google's weather forecasting include:...

AI 2 min read
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How PyTorch Calculates Gradients: What loss.backward() and .grad Actually Do

In this post, let us take a closer look at how gradients are calculated in PyTorch, particularly focusing on the interaction between the loss.backward() function and a variable’s .grad attribute....

AI 8 min read
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Where to Find Data: A Curated List of Free Datasets and Repositories

In data science and machine learning, data is the new oil—it's the fuel that powers our models and insights. But finding the right data can be a challenge. Whether you're...

AI 1 min read
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Zindi -Ghana Crop Disease Detection Challenge

Zindi, in partnership with GIZ, Digital Transformation Centre Ghana, Fairforward, and the Responsible AI Lab, has launched the Ghana Crop Disease Detection Challenge. This challenge focuses on building machine learning...

AI 1 min read
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I Tried to Replace an Interior Designer with Gemini. Here's What Happened.

When I finally got access to Gemini Pro, I had one main goal: to test its new image generation capabilities, which I’d heard referred to by the intriguing codename "Nano...

AI 10 min read
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A Chronological Look At AI: A Decade-by-Decade Evolution

Artificial intelligence did not arrive overnight with ChatGPT. It took eighty years of alternating breakthroughs, hardware bottlenecks, and research winters to reach this point. Looking at the field decade by...

AI 23 min read
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Why I Built a Free HD Background Remover (and What People Use It For)

Need to remove the background from a photo without losing HD quality? I built a free web app for that. Upload your image, adjust a few options, and download a...

AI 6 min read
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Complete Machine Learning Package: A Free, Hands-On ML Course by Jean de Dieu Nyandwi

Are you fascinated by machine learning but have no idea where to start? Do you find yourself jumping between YouTube tutorials, blog posts, and dense textbooks, only to end up...

AI 4 min read
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Lex Fridman and Andrew Ng on Deep learning - Lex Podcast

Join Lex Fridman and Andrew Ng as they delve into the exciting world of deep learning in this podcast episode. These AI legends share valuable insights on not just deep...

AI 1 min read
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Can AI Bring a Photo of Bees to Life? Testing Luma AI's Dream Machine

I recently tried out Luma AI's dream machine using a picture of what I believe are wasps or bees (though I'm not entirely sure which ).. What I Did After...

AI 3 min read
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Introducing GitHub Models

GitHub is enabling the rise of the AI engineer with the introduction of GitHub Models, bringing the power of industry-leading large and small language models to its more than 100...

AI 1 min read
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How AI Could Empower Any Business - Andrew Ng

In this TED talk by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and deeplearning.ai, he believes that artificial intelligence (AI) systems should be more widely available and accessible, so that even...

AI 1 min read
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fastai's Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Deep Learning Without a PhD

In case you have to do Deep learning or interested in building applications with neural networks in a hands-on way you can check out fastai by Jeremy Howard and his...

AI 3 min read
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AI: What It Is, How It’s Seen, and How to Stay Informed

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving innovation and sparking curiosity, but the hype can make it hard to see clearly. Whether you want just enough knowledge to follow AI news and...

AI 6 min read
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NVIDIA's Consumer GPU Restrictions in Data Centers: Impact on Cloud Computing Costs

NVIDIA, a leading manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs), has restricted the use of its consumer-grade GPUs, such as the GeForce RTX series, in data center environments through its End-User...

AI 4 min read
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Why Isn't Reinforcement Learning Widely Used for Game AI Agents?

Reinforcement learning (RL) has powered impressive achievements in game-playing AI, such as AlphaGo and OpenAI's Dota 2 bot. Tools like Unity ML Agents and examples like Gran Turismo 7's RL-trained...

AI 4 min read
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Machine Learning Experts to Follow

Looking for inspiration in the field of Machine Learning? Here are my top picks for experts whose work is shaping the future of AI. I’m a huge fan of Andrew...

AI 1 min read
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Zombie Walk: Turning an Image into a 3D Model with DeepMotion

I recently ran a little experiment to animate a character walking, starting from a single image. Why does this matter? Well, I was chatting with a game developer friend who...

AI 4 min read
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An AI-Generated Version of Chimamanda Adichie's 'The Danger of a Single Story' TED Talk

Witness an innovative AI-generated video adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s iconic TED Talk, "The Danger of a Single Story." The script was crafted by ChatGPT and brought to life by...

AI 3 min read
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Why Machine Learning Models Can Be Confidently Wrong: A Charger Classified as a Phone

While machine learning is a powerful tool, it's important to remember that models are not infallible. In fact, they can sometimes be overconfident in their predictions, as shown in this...

AI 1 min read
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ThreeJs and Reinforcement Learning in 3D

I built a simple 3D game in November 2024 mostly for fun. The objective was to minimize the time taken for a player to destroy all the pillars. Then I...

AI 4 min read
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ML5.js: Machine Learning for the Web

ML5.js is an open-source JavaScript library designed to make machine learning accessible to a broad audience, including artists, creative coders, and students. It leverages TensorFlow.js to bring machine learning models...

AI 4 min read
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HumekaFL: CMU-Africa's App That Detects Birth Asphyxia From a Baby's Cry

Birth asphyxia is when a baby does not get enough oxygen during delivery. It is one of the main causes of newborn deaths, and sub-Saharan Africa has some of the...

AI 4 min read
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Where to Start with Machine Learning: Jason Brownlee's Resource List and My Pick

Jason Brownlee runs Machine Learning Mastery, a site I have ended up on many times while trying to fix an error in my code. He describes his work as helping...

AI 3 min read