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R2D3: A visual intro to Machine Learning 🤖
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
💼30 Popular Best Data Science Tools to use in 2026
🤖Anthropic doubles Claude’s usage limits for two weeks
👨💻Claude Code ships Auto Mode
🤖Z.ai drops high-speed GLM-5-Turbo for OpenClaw
⚡ Altman says AI will be sold like electricity
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Learn Faster With ChatGPT’s Study Mode
💡 AI Tutorial:Earn $500 Per Day With 3 AI Business Ideas
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If you've never seen R2D3's interactive explainer on machine learning, it's worth bookmarking. It walks you through decision trees — from splitting data on elevation and price to overfitting on training data — using gorgeous D3.js visualizations that make the concepts click instantly. A genuinely fun refresher even if you already know the material inside out.
AI Agents Are Reading Your Docs. Are You Ready?
Last month, 48% of visitors to documentation sites across Mintlify were AI agents—not humans.
Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents are becoming the actual customers reading your docs. And they read everything.
This changes what good documentation means. Humans skim and forgive gaps. Agents methodically check every endpoint, read every guide, and compare you against alternatives with zero fatigue.
Your docs aren't just helping users anymore—they're your product's first interview with the machines deciding whether to recommend you.
That means:
→ Clear schema markup so agents can parse your content
→ Real benchmarks, not marketing fluff
→ Open endpoints agents can actually test
→ Honest comparisons that emphasize strengths without hype
In the agentic world, documentation becomes 10x more important. Companies that make their products machine-understandable will win distribution through AI.
Data science is a rapidly evolving field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. As the volume, variety, and velocity of data continue to grow, data scientists need sophisticated tools to handle and analyze this data
Anthropic is doubling usage limits over the next two weeks across Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans outside of peak hours (weekdays 5am - 11am PST). Users don’t have to take action to claim the bonus usage, it’s being applied automatically to all Claude tools. Separately, Anthropic announced that its full 1M-token context window is now generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, with no increase in price.
Anthropic is rolling out Auto Mode for Claude Code, a research preview that lets the agent decide which actions need your approval and which ones can proceed on their own. It’s a sweet spot getting prompted on every file write, and the sketchy --dangerously-skip-permissions. Enterprise admins can disable it via MDM or registry, and Anthropic still recommends running it in sandboxed environments for now.
Z.ai just dropped GLM-5-Turbo, a speed-optimized variant of their 744B MoE flagship, purpose-built for agentic workflows inside OpenClaw. It's been fine-tuned from the training stage up for tool calling, long-chain execution, and persistent tasks, with a 202K context window and API pricing at $0.96/M input, $3.20/M output.
For developers: total control, instant access. For enterprise: strategy-to-deployment support, compliance, and production infrastructure.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
CodeSpeak is a programming language where you maintain structured English specifications instead of source code, and LLMs handle the implementation.
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.
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Sydney AI consultant Paul Conyngham built a custom mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie by chaining ChatGPT, Grok, DeepMind’s AlphaFold, and UNSW's genomics lab to turn 350 GB of tumor data into a treatment with real results. Rosie was diagnosed with mast cell cancer in 2024 and given months to live despite chemo and surgery.
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Elon Musk just posted that xAI "was not built right" and needs a ground-up rebuild, with 9 of 11 original co-founders now gone and the company actively hiring major coding talent to help Grok catch up to the industry’s frontier. Zihang Dai and Guodong Zhang are the latest departures, leaving just two of the original 11 co-founders (Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen) at xAI with Musk.
Meta is planning layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company. The company is looking to offset costly AI infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set, and the magnitude of the cuts has not been finalized. The layoffs could be the most significant since the company's restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023.
OpenAI CEO tells BlackRock Infrastructure Summit that AI will become a metered utility sold by the token, with compute capacity determining access as demand surges beyond current infrastructure.
Pokémon Go data is now being used to help robots navigate city sidewalks. Niantic trained its Visual Positioning System on over 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go players. Delivery robot company Coco Robotics will use this system to navigate with centimeter-level precision.
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AI Tutorial
How to Learn Faster With ChatGPT’s Study Mode
Turn ChatGPT into an interactive tutor that guides you step by step, not just gives answers.
Here’s how to do it (step-by-step): 👇
Step 1: Open ChatGPT (mobile or web) and select any GPT model.
Step 2: Tap the Tools button next to the message bar.
Step 3: Select “Study and learn” from the dropdown menu.
Step 4: Start with a topic and your level, for example:
“Help me learn [Your Subject/Skill] from scratch. I want to understand key concepts, tools, and strategies within 2 weeks. Use questions, mini-quizzes, and examples to guide me step by step.”
Step 5: Engage with the questions, hints, and mini-quizzes ChatGPT gives you.
💡 Quick Tip: Enable Memory (Settings → Personalization), so Study Mode remembers your progress and adapts over time.
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
Overlap: Clips, reformats, and posts long-form videos.
CrePal: Turns your ideas into stunning videos.
Mastersheets: Unifies data with role-based spreadsheet workflows.
SmartTalk: Automates WhatsApp customer responses 24/7.
Voice Isolator: Removes background noise and isolates vocals.
FlowPost: Schedules branded posts across multiple platforms.
FreeBeat: Turns music and ideas into viral videos,
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