Quoting Ted Sanders
In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the…
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GitHub Octoverse 2026
GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in…
The October inflection point for vibe game development
I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily…
Quoting Terk Terkowitz
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can…
How to Make AI Work for End-to-End Business Processes
From simplifying workflows to connecting knowledge and rules, coordinating AI agents, and delivering measurable business results. The post How to Make AI Work for End-to-End Business Processes appeared first on Towards…
Where a Cell Sits Matters More Than How Many There Are
Using spatstat raster layers and point process models to ask how neurons, astrocytes and microglia sit relative to each other The post Where a Cell Sits Matters More Than How Many There Are appeared first on Towards…
Build a Python MCP Client to Test Servers From Your Terminal
Follow this Python project to build an MCP client that discovers MCP server capabilities and feeds an AI-powered chat with tool calls.
Building and Visualising Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
Exploring what happens when neural networks learn functions instead of weights. The post Building and Visualising Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Quiz: Creating a Scalable Flask Web Application From Scratch
Test your understanding of Flask project structure, from the application factory and blueprints to Jinja templates and static files.
Rodrigo Girão Serrão: 4 upgrades to the Python standard library in 3.15
Learn about 4 of the most exciting updates made to the Python standard library in 3.15. This article highlights 4 of the most exciting updates made to the Python standard library in 3.15: new object_hook in json.load:…
Your RAG Pipeline Is Missing a 1994 Algorithm
Embeddings know that "broken" means "defective". They may not notice that ZX-4821 is not ZX-4812. The post Your RAG Pipeline Is Missing a 1994 Algorithm appeared first on Towards Data Science.
LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Pandas xs: Using the `level` argument with an int or a name
Using xs to retrieve from a Python Pandas multi-index? “level” takes an int or string: – int: The index level, with 0 the outermost – string: The level’s name — but not every level has one The name is clearer, but…
Python GUIs: Getting a Value from a Model Using Row-Column Indices — How to retrieve data from a Qt model using row and column integers
How do I retrieve a value from a QAbstractTableModel using a pair of integers (row and column), for example when clicking a button, rather than clicking on a cell in a QTableView? When you're working with QTableView and…
Python GUIs: Passing Arguments to Threaded Functions in PyQt6 — Understanding the difference between passing a function and calling a function when using QThreadPool and QRunnable
I'm running a long-running function in a separate thread using QThreadPool and a QRunnable worker. When I pass the function without arguments, it runs correctly in the background. But when I try to pass arguments, the…
Why Does Structured Output Fail? An Empirical Study of Prompt-Enforced Pydantic Schemas Across Nine LLMs
arXiv:2610.33949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pipelines that require structured outputs from hosted language models often specify a Pydantic schema in the prompt, validate the response, and retry when validation…
"Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology": Chameleon templates, modernized: chameleon-rs
tl;dr; chameleon-rs is my Rust implementation of Chameleon for Python web apps. It runs existing templates unchanged, with faster rendering, async support, and support for free-threaded Python. The Chameleon HTML…