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rmoff.net
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch: www.nan.fyi/database - love the explainer/interactive animation in this
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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wang.social
Why is it that all modern apps with “feeds” like social media apps or even reading apps like Medium, Substack, etc. exhibit the anti pattern of refreshing and losing your spot if you switch away for even a minute?
It’s absolutely infuriating.
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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zeileis.org
💡 Came across this nice tool today:

🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz

JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats

joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone
Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936
joss.theoj.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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anildash.com
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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ramikrispin.bsky.social
(1/3) Introduction to Multi-Stage Build 🐳👇🏼

The size of the image is a function of its dependencies and the efficiency of the image build. This tutorial focuses on resizing a #Python image using minimal images as our baseline and the multi-stage method.

medium.com/data-science...

#docker #mlops
Introduction to Multi-Stage Image Build for Python
This post introduces the Multi-Stage build approach for setting up a lightweight dockerized Python development environment.
medium.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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timkellogg.me
yes
A humorous comparison meme split into two halves. Top half: The Stack Overflow logo (stacked orange lines in a gray tray) appears on the left, with the text on the right: “you’re absolutely wrong.” Bottom half: The ChatGPT logo (green interlocking hexagonal knot) is on the left, with the text on the right: “you’re absolutely right.” A thin black line divides the two sections. The image playfully contrasts Stack Overflow’s often critical tone with ChatGPT’s agreeable responses.
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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mathspp.com
I've turned this blog post cheatsheet into a downloadable cheatsheet.

You can get the cheatsheet from here: mathspp.com/blog/uv-chea...
High-contrast uv cheatsheet with common and useful commands to create and manage projects and its dependencies and lifecycle, working with scripts, managing Python installations, working with and installing tools, uv's interface for pip and venv, meta commands, and miscellaneous commands. You can find an HTML version and the link to download the high resolution images at https://mathspp.com/blog/uv-cheatsheet. Dark mode uv cheatsheet with common and useful commands to create and manage projects and its dependencies and lifecycle, working with scripts, managing Python installations, working with and installing tools, uv's interface for pip and venv, meta commands, and miscellaneous commands. You can find an HTML version and the link to download the high resolution images at https://mathspp.com/blog/uv-cheatsheet. Light mode uv cheatsheet with common and useful commands to create and manage projects and its dependencies and lifecycle, working with scripts, managing Python installations, working with and installing tools, uv's interface for pip and venv, meta commands, and miscellaneous commands. You can find an HTML version and the link to download the high resolution images at https://mathspp.com/blog/uv-cheatsheet.
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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sustrato.bsky.social
Regresa @picanumeros.bsky.social para poner los superíndices sobre los sumatorios: contra la brocha gorda estadística y la varianza de barra de bar:

«No se están “cocinando” los datos de forma maquiavélica para mostrar una realidad que no es»

www.sustrato.io/textos/homer...
Homer y la estadística pública | Ramón Ferri (Picanúmeros)
Hay que decirlo más: la estadística pública está en el punto de mira y nos afecta más de lo que pensamos.
www.sustrato.io
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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whilhorst.bsky.social
For those on LinkedIn who aren't aware. By default all profiles have now 'Data for Generative AI Improvement' turned on.

You can turn it off via: Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement > Select the OFF option.

Do not feed the planet-destroying machine!✊
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
albertotb.com
By the way, what’s a AA?
open.substack.com/pub/hushcras...
By the way, what’s a AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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arvy.bsky.social
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames). The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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snarky.ca
PEP 794 (Import Name Metadata) has been accepted!

peps.python.org/pep-0794/
discuss.python.org/t/pep-794-im...
PEP 794 – Import Name Metadata | peps.python.org
This PEP proposes extending the core metadata specification for Python packaging to include two new, repeatable fields named Import-Name and Import-Namespace to record the import names that a project ...
peps.python.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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tommis.fi
How to Effectively Paste Images on Markdown with VSCode
Introduction Nowadays I use mostly markdown files when taking notes on a subject, and this...
dev.to
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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cultrepo.bsky.social
Our Python doc is officially out in the wild! 🐍

Thanks to everyone who joined the premiere 🙌 such a good vibe.

Here’s the link so you can watch it on repeat youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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sungkim.bsky.social
A research team from Tsinghua University, Stanford University, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. has developed the first deterministic algorithm since 1984 that improves on the long-standing O(m + n log n) bound for finding the shortest paths from a single starting point to all
August 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
albertotb.com
Very cool! skore is criminally underrated

youtu.be/mmcRcIY13GE?...
Introducing the data accessor of the EstimatorReport
YouTube video by probabl
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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davidgasquez.com
Spent some time refining the approach and benchmarking it. Just published a blog post about the core idea.

Can a bunch of LLM Agents be used to rank an arbitrary set of items in a consistent way? 🤖

davidgasquez.com/ranking-with...
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
albertotb.com
Great article!

colton.dev/blog/curing-...
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome
colton.dev
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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ruperts.world
Good article. Instead of trying to build products promising to replace humans with "superintelligence", consider the *actual* shape of language models and their capabilities. We have a great floor-raiser here that can be applied to bridge capability gaps.

elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser - Elroy
An AI assistant that remembers and sets goals
elroy.bot
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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tedunderwood.com
This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪
A more interesting upside of AI
Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?
tedunderwood.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
This is a nice and clear "overview of the state of RAG"

hamel.dev/notes/llm/ra...

(via @arnicas.bsky.social's wonderful newsletter)
P1: I don’t use RAG, I just retrieve documents – Hamel’s Blog
Ben Clavié’s introduction to advanced retrieval techniques
hamel.dev
July 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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frodsan.bsky.social
ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits

Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats
June 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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skrub-data.bsky.social
👀 This week's post is a sneak peek into the next major Skrub feature, Skrub expressions 🚀

As this is a preview of an upcoming feature, we are looking for your thoughts and feedback before release.
April 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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sungkim.bsky.social
You’ve probably heard about how AI/LLMs can solve Math Olympiad problems ( deepmind.google/discover/blo... ).

So naturally, some people put it to the test — hours after the 2025 US Math Olympiad problems were released.

The result: They all sucked!
March 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM