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The Mind Engine: Record a Life, Bring Back a Voice
In 2013, Black Mirror aired an episode called "Be Right Back". Martha loses her partner Ash in a car accident. A friend signs her up for a service that reads everything Ash ever wrote online, his messages, his posts, his jokes, and builds something that writes back as him. Martha types a message to a dead man, and a few seconds later he answers. It starts with text. Then a voice on the phone. Then a synthetic body in her house. And the copy fails her in the quietest possible
Igor Alcantara
40 minutes ago12 min read


How to Connect Qlik to Microsoft Teams with MCP
In this Data Voyagers tutorial, I show how to connect Qlik to Microsoft Teams using MCP and Microsoft Copilot Studio, including how to resolve an OAuth registration error encountered during setup. Watch the video below to follow the process on screen, then find the written step-by-step guide right after it. You can use Microsoft Teams to ask an AI agent questions about the Qlik content you can access. The connection runs through Microsoft Copilot Studio, where you create an a
Igor Alcantara
6 days ago6 min read


The Dead Leave Things Behind: Claude, Jev and a Game Where Every Character Remembers You
A few weeks ago I wrote here about the Voxari, a synthetic alien civilization of 5,000 individuals that I built with two very different AI models (check it here). You type a proposal, click Transmit, and 5,000 points of light on a map change color as each citizen answers for themselves. The whole poll takes about ten seconds and costs less than a dime. It worked because of a division of labour. Claude, from Anthropic, designed the world, wrote its history and plans and execut
Igor Alcantara
Oct 1213 min read
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