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Howdy. I'm Sebastian.

Data Science Weekly Newsletter (~68k subscribers): https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/datascinews

My email is sgutierr@alum.mit.edu. Open invitation: if you're reading this, I'm happy to receive email about any deep learning / data science / software / startup / etc topic from you at any time.

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Making Your Own Examples Is One of the Most Powerful Math Skills
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Geometric Art in Ancient Greece
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 637
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 9:50pm PST
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory [pdf] (2007)
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Computers Can Be Understood
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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?
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Why Do Monads Matter?
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:39pm PST
Courtney Love Does the Math (2000)
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 636
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 1:12pm PST
The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI's animated ASCII banner
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 3:57pm PST
Society for Creative Anachronism
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 9:57am PST
I Gave Claude Code 9.5 Years of Health Data to Help Manage My Thyroid Disease
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 9:46am PST
The stable marriage problem. Or, ask for things
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 9:35am PST
From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 9:02am PST
Why We've Tried to Replace Data Analytics Developers Every Decade Since 1974
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 10:12am PST
A rationalist's guide to manifestation. Or, how to live a magical life
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 634
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There should be 'general managers' for more of the important problems
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 7:50pm PST
The Illiquidity of Water Markets
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 7:24pm PST
The seam through the center of things – on addiction, God, and grace
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 7:12pm PST
Reflections on TA-ing Harvard's first AI safety course
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 10:09am PST
Horizontalization in Biotech
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Chat is the least interesting interface to LLMs
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 9:53am PST
Physics of foam resembles AI training
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 9:30am PST
Semi-Automating 200 Pull Requests with Claude Code
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 9:19am PST
Use Agents or Be Left Behind? A Personal Guide to Automating Your Own Work
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 1:49pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 633
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How do language models solve Bayesian network inference?
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 12:52pm PST
How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 12:48pm PST
Verification-Driven Development (VDD) via Iterative Adversarial Refinement
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 9:31am PST
Extracting Books from Production Language Models
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 9:17am PST
A New Way to Study the Miracle of Life
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 9:00am PST
Compiler Engineering In Practice – Part 2: Why is a compiler?
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Thurs Jan 1, 2026 8:22pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 632
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Thurs Jan 1, 2026 5:35pm PST
You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
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Cameras and Lenses (2020)
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You Will Be OK
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Thurs Dec 25, 2025 11:10pm PST
The ML drug discovery startup trying hard to not cheat
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 631
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Thurs Dec 25, 2025 10:30pm PST
Hack your way to a good Git history
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Do you need a lead scoring model?
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Thurs Dec 25, 2025 9:04pm PST
A framework for technical writing in the age of LLMs
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Attention Normalizes the Wrong Norm
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Thurs Dec 25, 2025 8:49pm PST
The Virtual Cell Will Be More Like Gwas Than AlphaFold
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Fri Dec 19, 2025 12:16am PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 630
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 10:52pm PST
Great ideas in theoretical computer science
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Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development
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Tues Dec 16, 2025 12:06pm PST
Things I Learned in 2025
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Tues Dec 16, 2025 11:56am PST
Context Widows Or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
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Fri Dec 12, 2025 10:35am PST
What to Do When They Forget Something They "Knew"
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Thurs Dec 11, 2025 9:55pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 629
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Why Write Engineering Blogs
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What Makes You Senior
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Thurs Dec 11, 2025 12:04pm PST
How Might We Learn?
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 10:40am PST
Human art in a post-AI world should be strange
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:19am PST
A Story About 'Magic'
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Relax for the Same Result
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Thurs Dec 4, 2025 12:46pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 628
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Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 627
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Thurs Nov 27, 2025 9:12pm PST
You might be carrying an invisible gun
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Thurs Nov 27, 2025 8:16pm PST
GameShell: Game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell
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Thurs Nov 27, 2025 8:11pm PST
Bomb-proof your website with mirroring
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Thurs Nov 27, 2025 7:45pm PST
What does it mean to understand language?
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Thurs Nov 27, 2025 7:23pm PST
Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air Gapped Networks
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Finish Your Degree
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Mike Gordon and hardware verification (2023)
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Froot Salad: your goal is to guess a hidden combination of 8 froots in 6 guesses
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Fri Nov 21, 2025 1:41pm PST
How Math Textbooks Are Written (and How to Choose One)
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Thurs Nov 20, 2025 11:24pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 626
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A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics
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Make Things, Tell People
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What's a Good Theory of Biology?
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Research and Pedagogies for Early Math
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Mathematical Maturity in Elementary School
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 625
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The advice I would give on a mentorship call
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Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
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How to stop having FOMO as a curious engineer: hold a thread
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Computational Thinking [pdf]
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Thurs Nov 13, 2025 12:39pm PST
Embryo Corp Took the First Step Toward Creating Real Unicorns
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Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:42am PST
Why Bloom filters work the way they do
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The Medici Method
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Fri Nov 7, 2025 11:51am PST
Use the "Bloom Test" Before Making Anki Cards
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 624
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