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🤖Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Probability & Noise
🦾Plus: 💰 Musk seeks up to $134B from OpenAI
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🛰️A Guide to Geospatial Data Engineering
🔗LangChain Ships Open-source Claude Cowork
💻How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
⚙️Standard install.md file for agents to install software
⚔️ Signal co-founder launches ChatGPT rival
🧊 Greenland’s minerals in the AI race
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Use Claude Cowork: for Non-Technical Tasks
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Uncertainty is an unavoidable part of machine learning, arising whenever models attempt to make predictions about the real world. At its core, uncertainty reflects a lack of complete knowledge about an outcome and is most often quantified using probability. Rather than being a flaw, uncertainty is something models must explicitly account for in order to produce reliable and trustworthy predictions.
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AI gets smarter when your input is complete. Wispr Flow helps you think out loud and capture full context by voice, then turns that speech into a clean, structured prompt you can paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or any assistant. No more chopping up thoughts into typed paragraphs. Preserve constraints, examples, edge cases, and tone by speaking them once. The result is faster iteration, more precise outputs, and less time re-prompting. Try Wispr Flow for AI or see a 30-second demo.
Geospatial data is a powerful tool that enables us to better understand our world with the power of location. In the geospatial field, we like to say that you don’t truly understand your data until you can analyze or visualize it from a geographic perspective.
Claude Cowork just dropped, and LangChain didn't waste time. Three days later, they shipped OpenWork, a fully open-source desktop agent built on their DeepAgents framework that brings the same file manipulation and autonomous execution capabilities to any developer's machine.
AI agents like Claude Code feel like black boxes wrapped in mystery. You type a vague request, and somehow they navigate your codebase, edit files, and write working code. But strip away the polish, and you'll find something surprisingly simple: the entire architecture is just an LLM with three tools having a conversation with your filesystem. Check out this implementation by Mihail Eric where he builds a functional coding agent in about 200 lines of Python.
Mintlify just launched install.md, a standardized format that lets AI agents autonomously install software by reading markdown instructions instead of executing mystery bash scripts. The idea is simple: host an install.md file with structured, human-readable steps that LLMs can parse and execute (with optional approval gates), adapting to whatever environment you're running.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
LazyVim
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axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.
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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Elon Musk and OpenAI continued to spar ahead of their April trial, with Musk sharing anecdotes from Greg Brockman’s 2017 private journal and Sam Altman accusing Musk of "cherry-picking" and OAI releasing correspondence of its own.
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Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike has launched Confer, a ChatGPT-style assistant designed to keep conversations private by default, using encryption and secure execution so user data is not stored or reused. Confer is built so conversations cannot be logged, stored, or used for model training, addressing growing concerns that AI assistants collect highly sensitive personal information over time.
Greenland hosts major deposits of rare earths, gallium, and germanium used in magnets, semiconductors, fiber optics, and data centers. Political interest from the U.S. ties these materials to AI growth and security aims. Yet extraction is slow, with few active mines, high costs, harsh conditions, and price swings limiting progress.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2[klein], a new speed-focused variant of the company’s powerful AI editing model. The 4B version runs locally, generates images in under a second, and ships under an Apache 2.0 license. This is not chasing visual ceilings. It is deliberately stepping away from them.
The Trump administration and a bipartisan coalition of governors are pressuring PJM Interconnection, the largest electricity market in the US, to hold an emergency power auction meant to accelerate the construction of power plants.
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AI Tutorial
How to Use Claude Cowork: The "Claude Code" for Non-Technical Tasks
Claude Cowork turns Claude into a hands-on assistant that can read, organize, and edit files inside a folder you choose, all through simple chat commands. Here’s how to set it up and run your first task.
Note: Cowork requires the Claude macOS desktop app (currently Mac-only, not available on web or mobile) and is only available to Max plan subscribers.
Open Claude Desktop
Look for the mode selector that includes "Chat" and the Cowork tab.
Click the Cowork tab to switch modes to “Tasks”.
You can create a folder just for Cowork, for example:
~/Documents/ClaudeWork/Click New Cowork Session and choose the folder you created.
Describe what you want Claude to do in plain English.
Example tasks
“Help me organize all of the files in my folder by type and date.”
“Extract data from 50 PDF invoices into one Excel file.”
“Sort these photos into year and month folders.”
“Find all Word files and convert them to PDFs.”
“Create a slide deck from my notes and meeting transcripts.”
Before touching your files, Claude will ask clarifying questions to ensure it understands your goal and carries out the task the way you want.
Review the results and ask for any adjustments if needed.
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