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Quoting Victoria Kim

Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon…

llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0

Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API, as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Since I already have an llm-typesafe plugin for talking to Jev, I had GPT-6 Astra…

llm-mistral 0.16

Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4. Tags: llm, mistral, llm-reasoning

EmbeddingGemma 2

My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary,…

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800…

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with both an open source (AGPL) Rust implementation (a single ~180MB binary), an…

Mistral Large 4

My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991: The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars. OK well I couldn't resist this one: llm -m…

datasette-atom 0.11a0

Release: datasette-atom 0.11a0 A minor fix for compatibility with the latest Datasette alphas. This meant we could upgrade the datasette.io site to Datasette 1.0a41. Tags: atom, datasette

Scrimshaw Jukebox

Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this: I want you to write some computer game music for me. First design simple text based format for the music and build an…

#499 So many questions??

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 824 brings ?? and ??= to Python for None handling Python 3.15 gets a surprise RC3, and Python 3.10 reaches end of life asyncio.shield Pyxel: the retro game engine for Python Extras…

FlexViz: Interactive Exploration of 1 Billion Data Points

Flowfile: Turn Polars Style Code Into an ETL Pipeline

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Tracing np.add, All the Way Down

Python Adds a Release: 3.15.0rc3

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The Python Documentation Is Now Available in Persian

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PyEducation: IPAF

Ciaren: Visual ETL That Exports pandas and Polars