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⚔ The Revenge of the Data Scientist
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Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: Data scientists are back on top. SpaceX is going public at a valuation that dwarfs most economies. OpenAI is paying humans to teach it their jobs. This week belongs to the builders — and the data👇
🌿Green Cloud Computing – The Sustainable Way to Use the Cloud
⚡Developer rewrites leaked Claude Code from scratch overnight
⚖️Regulating AI Agents
🔧How to fine-tune an LLM for structured data extraction
🎭 OpenAI taps freelancers to teach ChatGPT their jobs
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Use ChatGPT to Build Playlists and find Music
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Training models was never most of the job. The bulk of the work is setting up experiments to test how well the AI generalizes to unseen data, debugging stochastic systems, and designing good metrics. Calling an LLM over an API does not make this work go away…I recently gave a talk titled “The Revenge of the Data Scientist” at PyAI Conf to make that case with examples rather than assertions alone. Below is an annotated version of that presentation…
The fastest-growing repo on GitHub is a one person team!
OpenClaw went from 9K to 185K GitHub stars in 60 days — the fastest-growing repo in history.
Their docs? One person, plus Claude. They scaled to the top 1% of all Mintlify sites, shipping 24 documentation updates a day.
Energy-efficient solutions are necessary to minimize the impact of cloud computing on the environment. Green cloud computing, also known as green information technology, is a potential solution to aide in the reduction of energy consumption.
Following Anthropic's accidental source code leak, the lab rushed to issue DMCA takedowns across GitHub. That's when Korean developer Sigrid Jin stepped in. Waking up at 4 AM, Jin rewrote the entire codebase in Python before sunrise and launched it as claw-code, making it the fastest repo ever to cross 50K stars. Since it's a clean-room rewrite, it remains protected from Anthropic's legal reach.
The European Union’s AI Act - promulgated prior to the development and widespread use of AI agents, the EU AI Act faces significant obstacles in confronting the governance challenges arising from this transformative technology, such as performance failures in autonomous task execution, the risk of misuse of agents by malicious actors, and unequal access to the economic opportunities afforded by AI agents.
You'll learn how to fine-tune a small language model (Gemma 3) locally using Hugging Face. This end-to-end tutorial teaches how to format custom datasets, train a model to extract structured data, and deploy the final result as a live, interactive web demo.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Thesys.dev: Change how you interact with your data. Thesys Agent Builder lets anyone ask questions in natural language and get instant charts, tables, and dashboards - no SQL, no new infrastructure, no code required.
EmDash (GitHub Repo)
EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS that takes the ideas that made WordPress dominant and rebuilds them on serverless, type-safe foundations.
JSON parser: This Go library lets you cut through messy JSON payloads in microseconds.
AI News:
Well, this is shaping up to be a truly out of this world IPO. Elon Musk’s technology conglomerate SpaceX reportedly filed disclosures confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of an initial public offering. According to Bloomberg, SpaceX could seek a valuation of $1.75 trillion.
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A new report from Business Insider just revealed “Project Stagecraft,” an internal OpenAI effort paying as many as 4K freelancers at least $50/hr to build occupation-specific training data across a variety of jobs. The project runs through Handshake AI, with freelancers from jobs including commercial aviation, pharmacists, plant scientists, and HR specialists.
Twitter founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey just co-authored a post arguing AI can replace middle management, framing Block’s recent 40% workforce cut as the opening move in a massive workplace restructure for the AI era. Block cut over 4K employees in February, over 40% of its staff — with Dorsey calling it a bet on AI, not a response to weakness.
OpenAI shares have dropped in value on the secondary market as investors pivot to Anthropic. Investors are, in some cases, unable to sell their shares. Meanwhile, buyers have indicated that they have $2 billion in cash ready to deploy to Anthropic. Anthropic and OpenAI don't allow investors to trade shares on secondary markets without permission
Snapchat’s Spotlight shortform video feed is its version of Instagram Reels… and now it really is. In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap has renamed the feature ‘Reals’ and describes it as “a place where real people share real moments. Really.”
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AI Tutorial
How to Use ChatGPT to Build Playlists and Discover New Music
Go to ChatGPT and sign in.
Click on Apps in the left sidebar and search for Spotify. Then link your ChatGPT account with your Spotify account.
Now ChatGPT will be able to analyze your listening habits and recommend the right tracks for you.
Start a new chat, and to make sure ChatGPT is considering Spotify, click the plus button on the left, followed by More, and then click the Spotify icon.
Example prompt:
"Can you make me a playlist for my early morning runs, with high-energy tracks that keep my pace up and help me lock into a steady rhythm, using my Spotify taste as inspiration?"
ChatGPT will provide you with a playlist that incorporates some of your favorite artists as well as songs you've never heard before.
Whether you want a playlist for certain activities or just to discover new music, this is a great way to get recommendations that take your taste into consideration.
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