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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active…

openai/openai-python: v3.4.0

3.4.0 (2026-08-25) Features api: Add obfuscation field to ChatCompletionChunk (#3690) (c7d8e1d) api: add project residency configuration and cost quantity units (#3726) (bc4f8ef) Bug Fixes api: encode Realtime call…

Eligibilty to apply for driving licence

age=int(input("enter age: ")) if age>18: print("eligible to apply for driving licence") else: print("not eligible to apply for driving licence") 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v1.1.0

1.1.0 (2026-08-26) Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0 Features api: add updates thinking display mode (beta) (eb4a73f) api: add missing anthropic-beta values (dbebd15) api: add support for Organization API endpoints…

SciPy India 2026: 19th–20th December in Chennai, India. CFP open!

Hi! I am pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the SciPy India 2026 Conference, the fourteenth edition of the convening of scientific computing and open source software enthusiasts in India. The conference will…

Quoting Paul Dix

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind…

Returning Dev (C#/VB.Net -> Management -> React/Node) Looking for Python IDE Recommendations

Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I’m Leonardo. I worked as a C# and VB.Net developer for many years before stepping into management roles, which kept me away from hands-on coding for a while.…

#560: Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples

In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three cities and a dozen hospitals. He asked around about how researchers…

home-assistant/core: 2026.9.0b0

Beta release notes can be found here: https://rc.home-assistant.io/latest-release-notes Please note that these release notes are a work in progress. 👷‍♀️ We will be completing them over the next couple of days. Not all…

Unified Concurrency Interface

From my experience working on asyncio code and sync/non-asyncio code, probablythe most annoying part is actually building interfaces that support both. You get a bunch of aget or async_get verus get calls. Async…

Define a concurrency model (aka memory model) for Python

Over the years there have been attempts to define a memory model, notably PEP 583 and many questions both on the bug tracker and here about expected semantics and atomicity of operations, e.g. What is Thread Safety as…

Rodrigo Girão Serrão: Why OOP exists

Learn the fundamental principles behind OOP and how they connect to the syntax of Python. Introduction Welcome! This article will teach you the core ideas behind object-oriented programming, commonly known as OOP. This…

Python 3.15 Preview: Sampling Profiler

Explore Python 3.15's new sampling profiler and learn low-overhead profiling of scripts, threads, and live production processes.

LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: MIT just called for an educational revolution

As someone who teaches Python programming for a living, I’ve spent the last few years wrestling with the educational implications of AI. I’m changing everything I do to adjust to our new AI reality, experimenting with…

Quiz: Python 3.15 Preview: Sampling Profiler

Test your understanding of Python 3.15's new sampling profiler, from CPU and GIL modes to flame graphs, heatmaps, and attaching to a live process.

How Does a RAG Reranker Really Work?

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #2D] - What data scientists say when asked, what the model actually does under the hood, and why the honest answer changes your architecture decisions in enterprise RAG The post…

How to Effectively Solve 100+ Tasks with Claude Code

Work more effectively with your coding agents The post How to Effectively Solve 100+ Tasks with Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.

PyCharm: OpenTelemetry Comes to IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm

Why Random Forest Needs to Be This Random

Bagging hits a wall no amount of trees can break — here's the equation that explains why, and the experiment that proves it The post Why Random Forest Needs to Be This Random appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Is Agentic AI Just Automation?

Why most agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead. The post Is Agentic AI Just Automation? appeared first on Towards Data Science.