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960: In Case You Missed It in December 2025

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Dell reported $10 billion revenue growth and a 4% absolute cost decline in the same year.

1. Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn presents an In Case You Missed It episode for December 2025. 2. Jon Krohn appears as host, and John Rose, Joel Beasley, Penelope Lafoye, Jeff Lee, Sandy Pentland, and Josh Clem each matter because they supply the month's key examples. 3. The episode asks what AI work actually changes measurable outcomes, careers, and systems. 4. Jon Krohn opens with a widely reported MIT Nanda Lab figure of a 95% failure rate for enterprise AI solutions. 5. John Rose of Dell links that statistic to episode 953 and episode 887, where he discussed selecting projects with strong ROI. 6. Rose says Dell saw $10 billion in revenue growth and a 4% absolute cost decline in the same fiscal year. 7. He calls that the first time in 41 years that Dell decoupled revenue growth from cost growth. 8. Rose ties the result to people, process, and technology, plus a redesign of the company around productivity. 9. He says the key discipline is to choose work with a hard ROI metric such as cost, margin, or revenue. 10. Rose also describes generative AI as a 'BS work detector' when a task changes nothing material. 11. Joel Beasley says he started in stand-up comedy in December and uses Gemini because it can consume video in the browser UI. 12. He says he tracked comedians like Nate Bargatze and John Crist and found four to five laughs per minute as a professional benchmark. 13. Beasley keeps a spreadsheet of every performance, audience size, money made, and what worked or did not work. 14. He also uses AI like a writing coach after modeling a comedy writer's group of eight comedians in a circle. 15. Penelope Lafoye says burnout came from working too much in New York finance and from being misaligned with her five-year career goal. 16. She switched from finance to data science in the life science industry and hired a lifestyle and fitness coach. 17. Lafoye says she now prioritizes four gym sessions a week, pickleball, about one gram of protein per pound of body weight, and at least eight hours in bed. 18. Jeff Lee says a 'briefcase technique' helped him get hired by figuring out a company's pain points and outlining solutions in a document. 19. Sandy Pentland argues that humans are social foragers, that people 'never read manuals,' and that systems work better when they respect community context and rare events. 20. Josh Clem says AI adoption needs clear goals, hybrid retrieval with BM25 and vectors, evals, and training, or teams end up with 'work slop'.

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