Microsoft just launched Data Formulator. It’s a powerful data analysis tool that can create stunning visualizations from any data.

100% open-source, LLM-powered, no-code.

The success of Substack Notes suggests that long-form blogging is symbiotic with short-form tweets. Tweets are mutation, follows are selection, posts are memory. Mutation + selection + memory = memetic evolution. Without memory you get noise (X).

At a recent Princeton University panel I was asked if the crisis created by AI is also an opportunity for fundamental changes to higher ed. Yes! I’ve been thinking and writing about this since before ChatGPT’s release.

I see two big opportunities. The first is to separate essential skills from incidental ones. Here’s an analogy. When calculators became available, we didn’t stop teaching arithmetic in elementary school. That’s an essential skill. But in college calculus courses, we don’t make stu…

Since o1, and especially since DeepSeek-R1, improved "reasoning" has basically become the standard for new LLMs. Speaking of which, Gemini 2.5 Pro just came out as the latest reasoning model offering, which ends up at the top of most benchmarks (notably Humanity's Last Exam).

However, beyond just improving the reasoning abilities of LLMs…