Tree Appreciator
Tool: Tree Appreciator Another game experiment with Claude. This one used the default Claude iPhone app (chat mode, not Claude Code mode), where I prompted Claude Opus 5.5 Max with: Build a three js game called "Tree…
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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and…
(Ab)using the refcount for fast circular-reference checking
I’ve been experimenting with an alternative to the circular-reference tracking used by json. By using a bit in the reference count as a temporary marker, I was able to speed up encoding by roughly 3× in my tests,…
Does Stacking Beat Your Best Model?
It only helps when your models make different mistakes. The post Does Stacking Beat Your Best Model? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Gemini 4 Argon Draws a Python Reading a Book
Explore Gemini 4 Argon's Python code, turtle drawing, and responses to small tasks that check modern syntax, release knowledge, focused edits, and made-up functions.
How Do Word Embeddings Capture Relationships Between Words?
Understanding how words become related in a learned vector space The post How Do Word Embeddings Capture Relationships Between Words? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Voting on Features: Federated Feature Selection Without Sharing Data
Hospitals, banks, and edge devices can agree on which features matter by sharing votes instead of rows, runnable in NVIDIA FLARE and Flower The post Voting on Features: Federated Feature Selection Without Sharing Data…
Rodrigo Girão Serrão: frozendict built-in
Learn how to use the new frozendict built-in to create and manipulate immutable dictionaries. Python 3.15 introduced a new built-in data type: the frozendict. A frozendict is an immutable dictionary that can be created…
Quiz: Python and PyQt: Building a GUI Desktop Calculator
Test your knowledge of building PyQt GUIs with widgets, layouts, and dialogs, connecting signals to slots, and structuring apps with MVC.
A Scaffold at the Gate: Building AI Applications That Can Evolve
A technical reflection on why data scientists need software engineering principles when AI agents write code. The post A Scaffold at the Gate: Building AI Applications That Can Evolve appeared first on Towards Data…
Use `PC/pyconfig.h.in` instead of hard coding `PC/pyconfig.h`
This idea product a new way to generate PC/pyconfig.h: Now you have this c.in file. #ifndef Py_CONFIG_H #define Py_CONFIG_H // ... #undef HAVE_XXX #undef HAVE_YYY #undef SIZEOF_ZZZ #endif Then write a configure.toml:…
Support for SQLite extensions (e.g. spatialite) on MacOS - what's the issue?
This may have been done to death here already, but I’m baffled as to why the official Python installation packages for MacOS do not support SQLite extensions (e.g. the popular spatialite extension) - perhaps as a custom…
PyPy: PyPy v8.0.1 release
PyPy v8.0.1: release of python 2.7, 3.11, and 3.12 beta released 2026-09-14 The PyPy team is proud to release version 8.0.1 of PyPy after the previous release on Sept 25, 2026. Some problems with buffer memory leaks…
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LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Pandas groupby on datetime parts with the dt accessor
If your Python Pandas data frame has a datetime column, you can group on a portion of that via the “dt” accessor. For example, let’s get mean trip_distance for each hour of the day:…
Mark Dufour: CPython 3.15 (JIT) Performance Showdown
Now that CPython 3.15 has been released, I decided to do a historical performance comparison similar in spirit to Sixteen Years of Python Performance. Obviously I wanted to include CPython 3.15, but I also wanted to…
PyCon Ireland: Call for sponsors PyCon Ireland 2026
PyCon Ireland 2026 - Sponsorship Prospectus Autumn 2026 | Organized by Python Ireland Overview PyCon Ireland 2026 is a one-day, multi-track conference featuring talks, tutorials, and workshops, bringing together Python…