Quoting Ben Affleck
I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years…
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Claude Haiku 5.5
As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced at $1/million…
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and…
Quoting Jake Boggan
I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years…
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking:…
How Wrong Is Your Marketing Mix Model (MMM)?
A well-built MMM can still be wrong, because the spend it learns from never held the information it needs. This article tests whether changing when you spend, not how much, can fix that. The post How Wrong Is Your…
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning: Multi-Armed Bandit Simulation in Python
When machines learn by themselves The post Introduction to Reinforcement Learning: Multi-Armed Bandit Simulation in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The Best IDEs and Code Editors for Python (Guide)
Compare the best Python IDEs and code editors side by side, with free picks for beginners and pro tools for data science and AI-assisted coding.
The Consistency Quadrant: A Visual Guide to LLM Reliability
Mapping structural variance against execution outputs to estimate coding agent reliability without ground truth. The post The Consistency Quadrant: A Visual Guide to LLM Reliability appeared first on Towards Data…
Quiz: The Best IDEs and Code Editors for Python (Guide)
Test your grasp of Python IDEs and code editors, from beginner-friendly tools to notebooks, AI-first editors, and cloud workspaces.
Allow automatic naming of sentinels within classes
In 3.15, this is the way to define a sentinel within a class (example from the documentation): class Cls: PICKLABLE = sentinel("Cls.PICKLABLE") I am personally averse to the common antipattern in Python of: value =…
When Do PINNs Beat Classical Numerical Methods? A 1D vs 5D Experiment
I put a physics-informed neural network up against a plain finite-difference solver twice: once in 1D and once in 5D. The winner changed. The post When Do PINNs Beat Classical Numerical Methods? A 1D vs 5D Experiment…
Python GUIs: Change the color of the ProgressBar indicator text when it exceeds 50%
How can I change the text color from black to white of the percentage indicator inside the QProgressBar when it exceeds the value of 50? When a QProgressBar fills past the halfway mark, the dark-colored chunk behind the…
LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Pandas groupby with two columns: Reshape results with unstack
Invoke “groupby” with two categorical columns in Python Pandas, and get a two-part multi-index: g = df.groupby(['passenger_count', 'VendorID'])['trip_distance'].mean() Turn into a data frame with unstack: g.unstack() #…
Python GUIs: Using Complex Data Sources with PyQt6 Model/View Architecture — How to use JSON, nested data, and other complex structures in your Qt table and list views
I have a complex data set in a JSON file. Is it possible to use this as my model's data in PyQt6 views, or do I need to simplify it to a basic table? Great news: you can use any data structure you like in a PyQt6 model.…