epistemic uncertainty is not always reducible
new research shows that the standard definition of epistemic uncertainty as reducible by more data is inconsistent with its common mutual-information measure, and proposes a three-part taxonomy.
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daily brief: 2026-06-11
ai agents struggle with scientific synthesis, deezer detects ai music, and doordash adds a chatbot for food orders.
aibuild a minimal feature store from scratch
a hands-on guide to building a feature store with duckdb, parquet, redis, and fastapi, covering offline and online stores, materialization, and retrieval for both predictive ml and llm context.
aiconformal bayes under label shift
two approaches for conformal bayes under label shift: post-hoc calibration and in-training adaptation, both using importance weighting to restore target-domain coverage.
aiannealed entropic allocation for ranking and selection
a new annealed weighted soft-min framework improves sequential budget allocation in ranking and selection by smoothing the maximin objective and adding saddlepoint corrections.
aitopological features as survival data for testing and learning
a new method treats persistence diagrams as survival data, enabling hypothesis testing, effect sizes, and stable feature vectors for machine learning.
aiboltzmann margin gives knn near-exponential convergence
a new margin condition bridges the gap between polynomial and exponential rates for knn classifiers.
aipython scripts to automate pdf tasks
five python scripts that merge, split, extract, stamp, redact, and inventory pdfs from the command line.
aidaily brief: 2026-06-10
ai memory tools can backfire, google slashes ai plus pricing, and a new local coding stack emerges.
ailocal agentic coding with claude code, ollama, and gemma 4
a guide to building a local agentic programming stack using ollama, gemma 4, and claude code, with setup steps and verification.
aiseven free image generators on hugging face worth using in 2026
a curated list of seven free, high-quality text-to-image models available on hugging face, with details on licensing, use cases, and hardware requirements.
airecovering hidden components from unlabeled mixtures
new method identifies latent components in unlabeled data by exploiting marginal independence, without needing labels or clean samples.
aidaily brief: 2026-06-08
apple's wwdc 2026 brings ai siri and on-device intelligence, while research warns of llm document corruption and fragile market simulations.
aiwhy llms corrupt documents during delegation
a study finds that large language models silently corrupt documents over multiple edits, with smarter models fabricating plausible but false content.
aianthropic's guide to building claude skills
a practical walkthrough for creating reusable instruction folders that give claude domain expertise across sessions.
aihow task diversity shapes in-context learning in transformers
a new analytical model shows that training task diversity, defined by non-overlapping low-dimensional subspaces, improves in-context learning by reducing interference and enabling better generalization.
aiweekly brief: 2026-06-01-2026-06-07
openai plans a chatgpt super app, apple revamps siri with gemini, and the white house eyes an equity stake in openai.
aidaily brief: 2026-06-07
openai pushes chatgpt into super app territory, google adds ai to thrift shopping, and apple preps a siri overhaul with gemini.
aipython file writing basics
learn to write, append, and save text, csv, and json files in python using built-in tools.
aithree spacy tricks for faster text processing
learn how to speed up spacy pipelines and improve entity recognition with selective loading, batch processing, and hybrid rule-based methods.
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