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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 23h

My slides and code for @odsc.bsky.social West are finally done and submitted!

Time to pass out for 2-3 business days

Kyle @kylestratis.com · 3d

You really believe that the researchers working on the next generations of these systems only have access to the mid-tier consumer-grade ones?

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 6d

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.

Today I want to share two new works on this topic:

Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 3d

If you subscribe to @oreilly.bsky.social’s learning platform, you can read the unedited draft of AI Agents with MCP, we just added chapter 5, the first of 3 chapters about MCP servers!

AI Agents with MCP

Since its release in late 2024, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has redefined how developers build and connect AI agents to tools, data, and each other. AI Agents with MCP... - Selection from...

learning.oreilly.com

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 3d

I’m told the Early Release version of AI Agents with Model Context Protocol inspired some changes to the roots documentation for MCP. On the one hand: hell yeah, better docs! On the other hand: now I have to update the chapter again 🥲

But I’m excited so many people are reading it already!

Expand and refine Roots content in the Client Concepts doc by olaservo · Pull Request #1605 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

Summary Add Design Philosophy section to Roots documentation to help understand the "why" and remove potential ambiguity around security claims. Motivation and Context The existing roots ...

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 9d

This was shared a few months ago at one of the companies I work for, and the recent neuromorphic advances (there are several different strains of promising research happening simultaneously) are all exciting just on the efficiency side of things, not to mention all the other things

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 11d

I’m not a WASM-knower by any means but this is too cool not to share

GitHub - microsoft/wassette: Wassette: A security-oriented runtime that runs WebAssembly Components via MCP

Wassette: A security-oriented runtime that runs WebAssembly Components via MCP - microsoft/wassette

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 13d

You can also subscribe to my newsletter at thesignalpath.xyz for book updates along with the latest news and analysis from the world of data and AI.

The Signal Path

Cutting through the AI noise to find what actually matters for engineers, data practitioners, and the businesses that depend on them.

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 13d

and the addition of chapter 5, the first of 3 chapters covering the ins and outs of building MCP servers. If you subscribe to @oreilly.bsky.social's learning platform, you can spend your weekend with the book now here: learning.oreilly.com/library/vie...

AI Agents with MCP

Since its release in late 2024, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has redefined how developers build and connect AI agents to tools, data, and each other. AI Agents with MCP... - Selection from AI Agents with MCP [Book]

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 13d

It's Early Release Day! AI Agents with MCP just had a major release and reorganization, with additional details added too all existing chapters, the client chapter (chapter 3) split into two chapters,

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 14d

LLMs in Minecraft is insane

I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!

YouTube video by sammyuri

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 15d

please read this

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 15d

There's been a noticeable increase of AI/ML practitioners here lately, it seems like the antis have gotten bored or have blocked themselves into their own corner of Bluesky or the site has grown so much that they aren't as noticeable so people are feeling more comfortable coming here

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 15d

In this guest blog for @odsc.bsky.social, I show you how to implement a simple client in Python, giving your application the ability to use tools served by MCP servers. If you like it, swing by my virtual workshop at ODSC West later this month!
opendatascience.com/clients-the...

Clients: The Unsung Heroes of the MCP Ecosystem

Editor’s note: Kyle Stratis is a speaker for ODSC AI West this October 28-30 in San Francisco. Check out his talk, From Intelligent to Agentic Applications: Using Model Context Protocol to Support Agentic Behaviors in your Applications, there! In November, 2024, Anthropic made an announcement: they were releasing and fully...

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 15d

MCP clients, of course! Unfortunately, there are fewer resources out there for building your own clients, and few clients in the wild that support all the features that the protocol provides for (the MCP Inspector has one of them!), but without clients, we wouldn't be able to use MCP at all.

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 15d

Since the launch of Model Context Protocol, MCP servers have taken up much of the limelight. But for those of us building AI-powered intelligent applications, we want to be able to integrate servers, not just build them. But how would we do that?

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 18d

MPU has become one of the biggest sources of false ideas about data center water use on the internet andymasley.substack.com/p/more-perfe...

More Perfect Union videos are wildly deceptive on data center water use

They're misinforming their huge audience and making the data center debate much worse

andymasley.substack.com

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 19d

I got introduced to @randyau.com's 'Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work' post during the #dataBS Conf this week: www.counting-stuff.com/data-cleanin... . I just finished--it was a great read.

Here are some quotes and thoughts I'm walking away with 👇

1/9 #RStats

Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Also, most data cleaning articles suck

www.counting-stuff.com

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 18d

Supporting the #SomervilleMA man grabbed by guys in balaclavas even after they determined he was 'lawful'
www.universalhub.com/2025/support...

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 19d

I really need to start also publishing to leaflet!

brendan @schlage.town · 20d

Fun fact, we *do* actually do something like this :)

Leaflet doesn't have this exact feature yet (backlinks to all related Bluesky discussions) — but similar: we parse the firehose for Bluesky posts w/ our quote param in their embed record…

…and show in a post where it's been quoted on Bluesky!

screenshot: For example, Leaflet is only interested in events concerning pub.leaflet.* records. However, Leaflet can also choose to listen to other events. If Leaflet wanted to add a feature that shows backlinks to Bluesky discussions of a Leaflet document, it would simply start tracking bsky.app.feed.post records too.

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 19d

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 22d

My great uncle (Nicholas Gage) is receiving one of Greece’s highest honors today, the Order of the Phoenix, for not only his work in bringing to light the struggles of the northern villages during the civil war, but his continued support of Greece over the years.

Greece to Honor Four Prominent Greek Americans in NY - GreekReporter.com

Kyriakos Mitsotakis will present Greece's prestigious Order of the Phoenix to four notable Greek Americans in New York on September 24

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 24d

while following sporadic updates and commentary on the latest news in data and AI, join as many as 18 others in subscribing here:

The Signal Path

Cutting through the AI noise to find what actually matters for engineers, data practitioners, and the businesses that depend on them.

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 24d

I see why people let social media followers/subscribers get to their head: thanks to my appearance last week on the @realpython.com podcast, subscribers to The Signal Path, my newsletter, have more than doubled!

If you want to see my slow descent into insanity

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 24d

As part of WIRED's Politics Issue, read @stevenlevy.bsky.social
on how the vibrant, outsider Silicon Valley he discovered as a young reporter decades ago, has changed utterly, to become a place bowing before Trump

With incredible art from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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