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🤖Python Itertools for Feature Engineering
🦾Plus: 🦞 Anthropic blocks third-party agents from Claude plans
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In today's edition: Scientists built living robots with nervous systems. Netflix opened physics-aware video AI. And Python's itertools is still one of the most underused tools in feature engineering.👇
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💾Mintlify replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem
🔬Karpathy’s Autoresearch but for Agent Engineering
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🤖Scientists Build Living Robots With Nervous Systems
🎬Pika Labs released PikaStream 1.0 in beta
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Use ChatGPT to Create On-Brand Visuals From Any Design
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In this article, you will learn how to use Python’s itertools module to simplify common feature engineering tasks with clean, efficient patterns. Feature engineering is where most of the real work in machine learning happens. A good feature often improves a model more than switching algorithms. Yet this step usually leads to messy code with nested loops, manual indexing, hand-built combinations, and the like.
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Karpathy's autoresearch let an AI agent run 100 ML experiments overnight on a single GPU. Now someone's applied the same idea to agent engineering itself. Kevin Gu just open-sourced AutoAgent, a library where a meta-agent autonomously improves a task agent's entire harness - prompts, tools, orchestration logic - by running thousands of parallel sandboxed experiments.
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Anthropic just blocked agent platforms like OpenClaw from running on Claude plans, requiring users to pay separately via usage add-ons or API keys, as the company confronts agent-driven demand its flat-rate pricing was never built to absorb. Agent tools hit Claude with nonstop requests that exceed what its normal plans typically cover, despite Anthropic models being the leading driver for the tech.
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Netflix just released VOID, an open-source framework built to erase video objects while rewriting the physics associated with them, instead of typical erasing and inpainting tools. Existing removal tools just paint over backgrounds, without actually reasoning about the cause-and-effect those edits introduce across the broader scene.
Apple has signed drivers for Nvidia eGPUs. Users can now pair their eGPUs with Macs for AI LLM processing without having to use workarounds like disabling System Integrity Protection. High-end Apple computers have become popular for use with AI agents like OpenClaw. The demand has been so high that delivery times for Macs with massive amounts of memory have increased to up to six weeks.
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Pika Labs released PikaStream 1.0 in beta, a real-time model that lets AI agents join Google Meet calls as video avatars with voice cloning and live conversation. The skill preserves memory and personality, and enables real-time adaptability. And if you use it with your Pika AI Self, they’ll be able to execute agentic tasks during the call
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How to Use ChatGPT to Create On-Brand Visuals From Any Design
Use your existing designs as a visual reference to generate new, on-brand content — no design skills needed.
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Step 1: Open ChatGPT and click the “+” icon next to the message bar.
Step 2: Choose “Add photos & files” and upload your sample design (image, slide, or post).
Step 3: Paste this prompt:
“Use this image as a visual style guide. Don’t copy it. Just follow the font size, colors, layout feel, and design sense. Now create a new post using this quote: "Marketing isn’t magic. It’s psychology with receipts."
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