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      <description>A pragmatic guide to recognizing when simpler tools outperform machine learning, and why knowing the difference matters.</description>
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      <title>Ethics in AI: The Right Way Is the Hard Way</title>
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      <title>Announcing ARC UI: 152 Components, Zero Compromises</title>
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      <title>Less Is More: Why We Reach for Simpler ML Models First</title>
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      <description>Why SVMs, Mask R-CNN, and classical ML models still outperform deep learning in production — and how to choose the right model for accuracy, latency, and total cost of ownership.</description>
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      <title>Astro + Cloudflare Pages: Skip the Cloud Build</title>
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      <description>How to deploy an Astro site to Cloudflare Pages with Wrangler — skip the slow cloud build, deploy locally in seconds, and keep your workflow fast.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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