Author: Nizam Kadir
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The Architect’s Dilemma: Rethinking Assessment When AI Does the Heavy Lifting
In an hour, I built a production-grade ML app with full documentation—without writing a single line of code. If AI is the mason, students must become the Architects. Here’s why we need to stop grading the product and start assessing the process.
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The $880 Million Regression Mistake: How Zillow’s Algorithm Learned the Wrong Lesson About Reality
In 2021, Zillow shuttered its “Offers” division after a staggering $880 million loss. It wasn’t a market crash or a lack of data that did them in—it was the math itself. Explore how one of the world’s most sophisticated regression models became “confidently wrong” at scale, and why the most expensive mistake a data-driven company…
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Invitation to Participate: Expert Ratings of AI-Generated Tutoring Responses
We are inviting educators and researchers to participate in a study at SUTD evaluating the pedagogical quality of AI-generated tutoring responses. Participants will review 24 pairs of anonymised dialogues for middle-school mathematics to help us understand how AI demonstrates qualities like clarity, scaffolding, and learner support. The online session takes approximately 45–60 minutes.
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Beyond the Code: 5 Mathematical Truths That Change How You See Data
Math isn’t a gatekeeper—it’s a lens. For too many aspiring data scientists, mathematics is a wall of dry formulas to be memorized for interviews and then forgotten. But true mastery lies in moving “Beyond the Code.” In this post, we strip away the intimidating notation to reveal the intuitive elegance behind five core concepts. From…
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The Ouroboros Moment: Why Claude Writing Itself Marks the End of “Coding” as We Know It
Is this the end of human coding? Anthropic’s Boris Cherny admits he hasn’t typed code in a month while building the new Claude Code tool. We analyze how agentic AI is shifting the developer’s role from writing syntax to orchestrating products.