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Stanford, South Africa
Joined August 2012
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Google Deepmind argues that LLMs can never make real scientific discoveries. They published a paper breaking down Albert Einstein’s private view of scientific discovery. In a famous letter to his friend Maurice Solovine, Einstein drew a diagram of how science actually happens. It is a cyclical loop. First, you experience raw sensory data. Then, through a mysterious, non-logical act of intuition, you make an intuitive "jump" to abstract axioms. Finally, you use strict logical deduction to derive consequences from those axioms. Generative AI has completely mastered two-thirds of this loop. • Induction: Statistical pattern matching across billions of tokens. • Deduction: Formal proof generation, like AlphaProof solving complex math Olympiads. AI can crunch data and it can prove theorems. But it cannot make the jump. The paper argues that AI completely lacks Abduction, the generation of novel explanatory hypotheses when observational data is scarce. The prevailing tech myth says that "creativity is just data compression." That if you feed an LLM enough text, scientific breakthroughs will naturally pop out. Einstein’s formulation of General Relativity proves that is a delusion. When Einstein formulated relativity, the observational data didn't demand a new physics framework; classical mechanics was still massively successful. The breakthrough required a conceptual rupture. An intuitive leap from physical reality to a brand-new set of foundational axioms. An LLM can execute the math once the axioms are given. But it is structurally incapable of formulating those premises on its own. It can interpolate inside existing human thought, but it cannot transcend it. The translation of physical reality into formal axioms remains the absolute, hard bottleneck of artificial scientific invention. We can build models with trillions of parameters. We can scale compute into the stratosphere. We can make the calculator infinitely fast. But until we solve grounding, the machine can process all the data in the universe. It still can't make the jump.
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I built Mimur: a local-first digital twin with 286k+ personal memories, citations, and an “as Werner” voice. Big lessons: RAG can’t count. SQL still matters. NPUs are now local LLM accelerators. theazureupdate.com/blog.html… #LocalAI #RAG #NPU – at Stanford, South Africa
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Copilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, now with multi-model support! Every organization can put long-running agents to work on complex, multi-step tasks, grounded in your organization's unique knowledge and know-how. microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…
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Microsoft BUILD //localhost Cape Town was a success 🚀 60+ developers and cloud engineers joined CPTMSDUG for Azure AI, Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot, Gen AI, live demos, hands-on labs, and Build 2026 highlights. Thanks to everyone who joined & built with us. #GitHubCopilot
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Pizza Friday at Spatial Edge 🍕 28 joiners. 3 #Microsoft speakers. A packed Cloud & AI Learning Session covering Agentic AI Coding, Code Coverage, Quantum Advantage, Agentic DevOps, Modern Data, Copilot, AI Foundry, & Build 2026 highlights. Humans review. Agents code.#AgenticAI – at Stellenbosch, South Africa
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No more waitlist. The GitHub Copilot app's technical preview is now available to everyone currently on Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. This agent-native desktop experience lets you decide what agents work on, how they work, and what ships. Go from issue to merge all in one place. ✨
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📣 Claude Fable 5, the first in @AnthropicAI's Mythos model class, is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and knowledge-work tasks. Try it out in @code or the GitHub Copilot app. ⬇️ github.blog/changelog/2026-0…
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Wow! @Discovery_SA you keep impressing me! Thank you! For the opportunity to complete the #worth #wealthyme course through #DiscoveryBank I have learnt skills like budgeting, planning, manage my daytoday expenses & healthy goals to achieve financial freedom. #financialfreedom
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Great evening at the Microsoft Cape Town Offices for: Unifying Local+Cloud AI and @cptmsdug @Microsoft #Microsoft #CapeTown #AI #DotNet #Testing #DeveloperCommunity
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Great evening at the Microsoft Cape Town Offices for: Unifying Local+Cloud AI Microsoft Agent Framework, local OS AI models, Apple Intelligence, Phi Silica, why 100% code coverage. Thanks Matt Leibowitz & Davide Bellone. #Microsoft #CapeTown #AI #DotNet #Testing #CPTMSDUG
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Today we’re introducing a new Legal Agent in @Microsoft Word, built to support the precision and rigor legal work demands. Every clause matters. Every redline tells a story. That’s why this agent was built to follow the structured workflows lawyers use while keeping them fully in control. Early in my career, I asked for a computer on my desk because I believed technology could change how lawyers work. It did. Today, I believe this next generation of tools will do the same, grounded in trust and responsible use.
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MICROSOFT BUILT AN MCP SERVER FOR PLAYWRIGHT and it changes how ai agents interact with the web most browser agents rely on screenshots + vision models to "see" the page playwright-mcp skips all that it reads the accessibility tree instead structured, clean, zero ambiguity your llm knows exactly what's on the page & what to do with it no hallucinated clicks no broken selectors works with cursor, vs code, claude desktop github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Great example of what Foundry enables: durable, stateful agents that run across time boundaries, orchestrate tools and models, and close the loop with evaluation and improvement over long-running workflows. @jeffhollan
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🚀 SBSA Power Platform Conference today! AI, automation, Copilot, real‑world solutions and a lineup of brilliant presenters. @Carike_B @StandardBankZA @MicrosoftSA We’re building smarter, faster, and beyond limits. #PowerPlatform #AI #Copilot #sbsa #microsoft #microsoftsa
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RIP document extractors. Google just released LangExtract: Open-source. Free. Better than $100K enterprise tools. Here’s what it does: 🧵
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INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT. Spend 1 hour with this. Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything. The people who watch this tonight will wake up tomorrow with a skill that most people will not have in 2 years. The people who skip it will still be watching Netflix next year wondering why nothing in their life has changed. Your call.
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At #CloudAndAIDay in Cape Town 🇿🇦 Exploring: ☁️ Cloud modernisation 🤖 AI agents & apps 📊 Real-time insights with Microsoft Fabric The future isn’t coming — it’s already here. 🚀 #Microsoft #Azure #AI #Data #Innovation #CapeTown
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🚀 Microsoft Tech Day Innovate with Azure AI‑Optimized Databases is happening 🔥 OliviaPhaahla Iaiswarya Ramachandran @SandeshNagaraj @devastatorka Donovan White Justin Manning Nhlalala Mkhari @Microsoft @MicrosoftSA AI +Data =💥Let’s go! #Azure #AI #Data #Fabric #CosmosDB
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