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summarized on 2026-11-12 16:28:20 PST.
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Published: 2026-11-12T20:53:46
- Nathan Yau's The Process newsletter issue 414 focuses on specific techniques for annotating line charts to draw attention and communicate patterns more clearly.
- The article is part of a membership-based series offering tutorials, courses, and guides on data visualization.
- The content is behind a paywall, requiring a FlowingData membership for full access.
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annotation · chart design · data visualization · line chart · presentation
Published: 2026-11-12T20:00:57
- Steve Bronder, a primary C++ developer for Stan, built bronder.nyc, a free web app that consolidates off-Broadway theatre, jazz, readings, and gallery events in New York City into one scrollable, searchable list with a map mode.
- The author praises the app for making it easy to find events by day, location, and category, replacing the frustrating experience of surfing individual venue pages.
- The author used the app to discover the Flatiron Room jazz venue and recommends the app for both visitors and residents of New York City.
Tags:
developer · event finder · jazz · new york city · open source · theater · web application
Published: 2026-11-12T19:42:13
- The author shut down his AI startup Moonshine after four years and $12 million in investment, unable to find sufficient revenue or growth, and his cofounder was hired by OpenAI.
- The author personally purchased the Moonshine Voice framework IP from liquidation and will continue maintaining it as an open source project with over 11,000 GitHub stars, supported by existing customers covering maintenance costs.
- The author built a mod for Kingdom Come II: Deliverance using Moonshine and Qwen3 to give NPCs histories and conversational memory, demonstrating the creative potential of local AI in gaming.
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artificial intelligence · liquidation · local artificial intelligence · open source · startup · venture capital · video game · voice recognition
Published: 2026-11-12T16:55:03
- Duncan Davidson discusses the fragmentation of personal AI memory across tools, where each service remembers a different version of the same user, and advocates for portable, scoped memory that lets people carry context between services with controlled access.
- The conversation covers how AI coding tools are shifting developer work toward outcomes rather than typing speed, and raises concerns about how new developers will gain expertise if entry-level tasks are absorbed by AI agents.
- Davidson describes how AI-assisted contributions are straining open source review processes, with his own fork sitting 25 pull requests ahead of a project's main branch, calling for a serious retrofit of collaboration practices.
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artificial intelligence · open source · personal memory · podcast · portable memory · security · software development · trust
Published: 2026-11-12T16:40:58
- SAS demonstrates how agentic AI can coordinate governed analytical workflows for government agencies using the SAS Viya MCP Server and Claude Cowork, allowing users to interact with complex analytical processes through natural language.
- The demo shows Claude Cowork orchestrating the creation of a machine learning model to predict income from Census data, coordinating data ingestion, profiling, automated machine learning, model evaluation, and operational scoring across SAS Viya.
- The article emphasizes that governance, auditability, and human oversight remain essential in government AI applications, with controls enforced within the analytical platform rather than inside the language model.
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agentic artificial intelligence · analytics · governance · government · machine learning · public sector · transparency · workflow
Published: 2026-11-12T15:56:40
- CoreWeave launched a managed PostgreSQL database service called CoreWeave Database, allowing customers to keep databases and AI workloads in the same cloud cluster, running on CPU nodes within its Kubernetes clusters using CloudNativePG.
- The expansion comes after strong quarterly earnings with 168% year-over-year revenue growth and a $132.5 billion backlog, though the company continues to report substantial losses from infrastructure spending.
- The service supports pgvector for AI applications and includes managed backups, updates, monitoring, and recovery, positioning CoreWeave to compete with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud in the managed database market.
Tags:
artificial intelligence infrastructure · cloud computing · database · gpu · kubernetes · managed service · postgresql
Published: 2026-11-12T14:40:14
- Andrew Gelman announces a talk on Bayesian Workflow sponsored by the New York City Chapter of the American Statistical Association, taking place at CUNY Graduate Center on November 18.
- The talk covers the systematization of applied Bayesian statistics, including iterative model building, model checking, computational troubleshooting, and simulation-based experimentation, based on a forthcoming book.
- Key innovations include going beyond standard Bayesian data analysis to consider multiple models fit to a single dataset, fuller use of informative priors, and deeper integration between modeling, data analysis, and computing.
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bayesian statistics · data analysis · lecture · new york city · prior distribution · simulation · statistical modeling
Published: 2026-11-12T11:54:27
- The article argues that Git's file-centric, line-by-line diff model is inadequate for autonomous coding agents that reason across syntax trees, call graphs, and type constraints, causing token bloat and missed structural breakages.
- The author proposes agent-native source control using server-hosted code property graphs and Tree-sitter parsers, enabling agents to mutate specific syntax nodes directly and run immediate dependency impact checks, as demonstrated by Anthropic's Scion architecture.
- The article advocates for versioning agent reasoning traces, prompt chains, and execution ledgers alongside code commits to prevent future agent sessions from repeating diagnostic dead ends, while acknowledging significant engineering trade-offs in migrating from Git.
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abstract syntax tree · artificial intelligence agent · automation · code property graph · git · software development · source control · version control
Published: 2026-11-12T08:27:49
- BikeNetKit is an open-source toolkit led by Michael Szell from IT University of Copenhagen that helps cities design and complete bicycle networks by filling infrastructure gaps.
- Developed over eight years, the project links bicycle network research with city planning and provides Python tools to grow networks, connect existing pieces, and plan construction order.
- The researchers provide analyses for over 400 European cities on the BikeNetKit website, and the software is available on GitHub for use with any city's data.
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bicycle · city planning · open source · python · toolkit · transportation · urban planning
Published: 2026-11-12T05:20:14
- The article provides downloadable slides and a recording for a session titled 'Agentic Analytics in Production: What to Build First.'
- The session focuses on practical guidance for implementing agentic analytics in production environments.
- The content is available as a PDF download and includes a video recording of the presentation.
Tags:
agentic analytics · analytics · artificial intelligence · presentation · production
Published: 2026-11-12T03:16:09
- The essay explores free online games as a popular form of digital entertainment, covering their meaning, categories, advantages, disadvantages, and reasons for widespread popularity.
- Benefits identified include affordable entertainment, improved concentration and memory, teamwork and leadership development, foreign language practice, and international social connections.
- Disadvantages include time management problems, physical and mental health issues, reduced face-to-face communication, unhealthy competition, financial risks from in-game purchases, and cyberbullying, with solutions proposed for responsible gaming.
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cyberbullying · digital culture · education · entertainment · health · online game · social interaction
Published: 2026-11-12T02:31:22
- ZoomInfo, Gong, and Apollo each announced AI agent capabilities in late September and early October 2026, with ZoomInfo bundling agents into existing contracts via its DoubleO.ai acquisition, shifting the competitive question from agent quality to underlying data quality.
- Drimble differentiates itself by building company data on official registers with a named source and capture date on every field, offering an MCP server that connects Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants directly to its data.
- The article argues that as orchestration folds into existing data subscriptions, vendors will compete on data accuracy, traceability, and cost per run, with buyers advised to test vendors on known accounts for field-level accuracy and signal freshness.
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artificial intelligence agent · business intelligence · competition · customer relationship management · data quality · data traceability · go to market · sales
Published: 2026-11-11T23:48:54
- Mathias Berggren contributed R code implementing a polychoric estimation approach for a latent-variable model problem previously presented by Andrew Gelman using Stan.
- The code uses the polycor library to estimate latent correlation from observed joint probabilities, computes marginal thresholds, and compares estimated and observed probabilities.
- The solution includes least squares transformations to convert standard normal thresholds to a scale with specific values, demonstrating that this type of model is commonly used enough to have established implementations.
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bayesian statistics · latent variable · measurement · polychoric correlation · r programming · statistical model
Published: 2026-11-11T17:19:05
- Verra Mobility received the Legacy Modernization Innovation Award in the 2026 GovTech Breakthrough Awards program, recognized for modernizing government transportation systems.
- The company's AXIS 2.0 platform is a cloud-native, configuration-driven system that allows government agencies to customize workflows, business rules, and reporting without extensive software customization.
- The platform provides dedicated cloud environments and enhanced security capabilities, helping agencies implement operational and legislative changes more efficiently while advancing road safety.
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award · cloud computing · government technology · innovation · legacy modernization · road safety · transportation