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Mindstone AI London 2025-Feb-18

Mindstone AI London 2025-Feb-18

Demoing techniques for AI-assisted programming live with Cursor in London on Tuesday evening (18th Feb 2025).

Making Tea While AI Codes: A Practical Guide to AI-assisted programming (with Cursor Composer Agent in YOLO mode)

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Making Tea While AI Codes: A Practical Guide to AI-assisted programming (with Cursor Composer Agent in YOLO mode)

A practical guide to AI-assisted development, where coding becomes a true partnership with AI. Drawing from hundreds of hours of experience, learn concrete patterns and practices for achieving 2-5x productivity gains while keeping AI's power safely contained.

How to reproduce your analysis

How to reproduce your analysis

What do you do when things don’t seem to be behaving the same way now that they did before? Here are a few techniques to avoid that dread scenario.

What is precision vs recall, and why should I care?

What is precision vs recall, and why should I care?

Wrong answers matter in different ways for a retina scanner outside a bank vault vs a cancer detector. This is why you need to understand precision vs recall.

Why we're bad at estimating (and what to do about it)

Why we're bad at estimating (and what to do about it)

With practice people can learn to estimate much better.

What does it take to transition from Senior to Chief Data Scientist?

What does it take to transition from Senior to Chief Data Scientist?

I’ve been asked this question by a few highly competent Senior Data Scientists over the years. Even just asking the question is usually a good sign that they have a sense of the answer - a sense that the skills that make you a good Senior Data Scientist may

How to write good software faster (we spend 90% of our time debugging)

How to write good software faster (we spend 90% of our time debugging)

If we spend the majority of our programming time and effort on debugging, we should focus our efforts on speeding up our debugging (rather than trying to write code faster).