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llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those…

llm-echo 0.5

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the…

Love Is Patient

> Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (1 Corinthians 13) I've been learning that love isn't the feeling at the top of the mountain. It's what you do on the way back down.…

Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem

"Always switch" is true for one particular host. Watch a few episodes and you can work out which host you've got. The post Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem appeared first on Towards Data…

Asynchronous Tasks With Django and Celery

Integrate Django and Celery with Redis as a message broker, and move slow work like sending email out of the request cycle.

How to Round Numbers in Python

Learn how Python's round() works, why it rounds 2.5 to 2, and how you can manage rounding errors with decimal, NumPy, and pandas.

Python's Mutable vs Immutable Types: What's the Difference?

Learn how Python mutable and immutable data types work internally and how you can use mutability or immutability to power your code.

Digging Deeper Into Django Migrations

Go beyond the basics of Django migrations: how they work under the hood, what the Django migrations table tracks, and what's inside migration files.

Django Migrations: A Primer

Get comfortable with Django migrations: create database tables without writing SQL, and keep your database in step as your models change.

Both Charts Are Right. So Why Do They Disagree?

The statistical paradox that shows how combining data can reverse the story. The post Both Charts Are Right. So Why Do They Disagree? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Quiz: Writing Comments in Python (Guide)

Test your understanding of how to write clean, useful Python comments, from basic syntax and docstrings to the comment types you should avoid.

openTPU

An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler in one repo. Runs Qwen3, LFM2.5 and Qwen3.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card.

Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5

The article speeds up binary search by batching independent searches with NumPy’s vectorized operations, then reformulates the algorithm to use only O(1) extra memory. After porting it to C++, the approach achieves up…

Making a mathematical model for better Indic keyboards

The article develops a mathematical model for more efficient Indic touchscreen keyboards, starting with Tamil and mapping script structure into Boolean logic and compact input states. It uses Python with SymPy to derive…

AI Development on Windows: from PyTorch and llama.cpp to Windows ML

Microsoft is expanding local AI development on Windows with experimental GGUF support in Windows ML via llama.cpp, new native inference APIs, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for running models locally. The broader…

TurboPython

A Python-to-C++ compiler. Typed Python to native binaries with no Python runtime, no GC, no GIL.

The things you own end up owning you

NumPy is being ported toward Python’s Limited API so it could eventually ship abi3 wheels that work across multiple Python versions, reducing the large per-version wheel matrix and easing support for new Python…

Python 3.15.0

Polars 2.0

Polars 2.0 introduces initial out-of-core spill-to-disk support, major performance improvements, first-class SQL, a new Map dtype, and stricter dtype handling. With the SQL and performance work, Polars reports leading…

Build & Train a GLM-5.3-Flash Model From Scratch with Python

This tutorial demonstrates how to build and train a compact 25-million parameter multimodal language model from scratch using modern techniques like mixture-of-experts and sparse attention. It further explores the AI…