Re-reading my own IBM patent on real-time concert feedback as what it actually was: an agentic loop with multimodal perception, memory-grounded inference, and a human in the loop. What it got right, and what a decade of hindsight teaches agent builders today. The post We Specified an AI Agent in 2016. We Called It Analytics. …

Three vision AI models ignored the pretty image, yet GPT-4o invented answers and Claude kept answering B. The post I Built a Trap for AI Image Judges. They Walked Into a Different One. appeared first on Towards Data Science. Read More

Nature Medicine, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04689-9 Using longitudinal data from 52,236 patients with cancer, this study created a multimodal atlas of cancer cachexia, demonstrating that weight loss episodes are linked to systemic serologic signatures and specific tumor genotypes and can be predicted using integrated clinical and molecular data, enabling earlier identification. Read More

Nature Medicine, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04614-0 By using a novel computational framework, a cross-sectional analysis on laboratory data from two independent cohorts reveals that the final menstrual period marks an abrupt, multisystem physiological shift, with sex hormone changes beginning more than 10 years before menopause onset. Read More

Is this the JEV killer? The post A Practical Guide to OpenAI’s New Decisions API appeared first on Towards Data Science. Read More