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I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I…
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI.…
The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks…
Why the default 50/50 split is the wrong move when your treatment is more expensive than your control, and how cost-based sampling weights fix it The post Optimal Traffic Allocation Under Heterogeneous Variant Cost…
How to create temporary files and directories in Python using the tempfile module's NamedTemporaryFile and TemporaryDirectory. Table of contents Making a temporary file Leaving temporary files open Making a temporary…
Three conditions that must hold before splitting prefill from decode pays off, and why chunked prefill is the right default below that threshold. The post Disaggregation Is a Thousand-GPU Problem appeared first on…
Explore GPT-6 Astra's Python code, turtle drawing, and responses to small tasks that check modern syntax, release knowledge, focused edits, and made-up functions.
Power BI Premium is gone. Microsoft Fabric took its place. Here's what actually changed for you, what didn't, and where to start — without the panic. The post The Power BI Developer's Survival Guide to Microsoft Fabric…
How do you plan for the performance of your Python applications? What does a performance budget entail, and where should you spend your resources? This week on the show, we speak with Den Odell about his new book "Fast…
Test your grasp of Python's built-in data structures. Work through dictionaries, arrays, records, sets, stacks, queues, and priority queues.
Learn how to run a lot of parallel coding agents without expensive, powerful hardware at home The post How to Run 10+ Claude Code Sessions Without a Powerful Computer appeared first on Towards Data Science.
We deployed our latest system update to our EU-based system on 23 June 2026 and to our US-based system on 28 July 2026. People creating an account or upgrading from a free account can now choose an annual plan.…
How many cores does your machine have, 10, 18? Your async Python code uses just one of them. That isn't a bug in asyncio. That's the design, and optimizing event loops to be faster by 20% doesn't change it. So Giovanni…
Nearly every book I’ve read on teaching and education over the past decade has talked about the value of spaced repetition. For much of that time, spaced repetition has been something I would recommend learners do, but…
Most of what a test configures on a patch holds until the test changes it. Retry logic is the classic case where that is not enough: the code under test keeps calling, and the test needs the behaviour to change on its…
A coaching session this week surfaced a good question: Alembic autogenerate only works if you import your models first, even though you never reference them. Ruff flags the import as unused. So why is it there? Instead…
Jane Street’s ASIC reverse-engineering challenge turns a raw chip-layout file into a month-long puzzle about reconstructing how the circuit works. The author uses Python, graph algorithms, Verilog, simulation, and Z3 to…
