Month: November 2025

Building StyleGAN in PyTorch: From Theory to Code

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Introduction My name is Ankush Thakur, and as a Computer Science student fascinated by generative models, I’ve recently been diving deep into one of the most influential architectures in modern AI: StyleGAN. While exploring how neural networks synthesize photorealistic images, I kept returning to a system that fundamentally changed how we think about generative models — … Read more

Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?

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There has been a recent deluge of generative AI videos featuring uncannily fresh-faced teens waxing nostalgic about how much better the world was during the ’80s and ’90s. As the AI youths smize and show off their period-specific haircuts, the clips cut to dreamlike footage of sun-drenched cul-de-sacs and vintage cars while songs like “Everybody … Read more

Why Most Hospitality Tech Fails in the Real World

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I’ve been in hospitality for nearly 20 years, running venues from Moscow to Dubai. Over that time, I’ve implemented probably every piece of hospitality tech you can imagine – and watched half of it fail spectacularly. This isn’t a story about how technology transformed our business. It’s about what actually happens when you try to … Read more

Stop Building MCP Servers by Hand: Convert APIs Instantly

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You don’t always need to build an MCP server from scratch. This guide shows how to convert existing REST APIs into MCP tools using a common MCP gateway. It explains protocol messages, compares implementation approaches, and walks through creating an MCP Gateway with AWS Bedrock AgentCore, securing it with Cognito, generating tokens, listing tools, and … Read more

ROI Can’t Save Us: Why Today’s Money Fails at Humanity’s Biggest Problems

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Modern economy funds what returns capital. That’s efficient for many things—until the necessary work is unprofitable. Cleaning our air, water, and soil is a prime example: pollution has been a by-product of profitable activity; cleaning it is usually a cost center. We now face a paradox: problems we must solve to survive don’t generate the … Read more

Deploy geospatial agents with Foursquare Spatial H3 Hub and Amazon SageMaker AI

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Organizations have used geospatial machine learning (ML) for property risk assessment, disaster response, and infrastructure planning. These systems worked well but couldn’t scale beyond specialized use cases. Each question required multiple geospatial datasets, each with its own model and often its own workflow, limiting these capabilities to a handful of high-value use cases at the … Read more

The Original OTP: Inside the Only Encryption Proven to Be Unbreakable

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When you hear OTP, the first thing that comes to mind is most likely the authentication mechanism that uses a temporary, single-use code to verify a user’s identity as part of a two-factor security mechanism. However, before that was the “OG” OTP (One-time Pad) an information-theoretic encryption technique first described by Frank Miller in 1882. … Read more

A Guide on How to Make Your AI Fool-Proof

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People are asking AI whether to marry someone, what to believe about politics, how to build a business, as though a calculator could teach them courage. You shouldn’t outsource any choices, creative sprints, or emotional decisions to it, as that would be the dumbest thing one can ever do. My goal isn’t to write another … Read more