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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 10: Air
An attempt at visualizing pollen distribution in Europe, based on EUPollMap doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Made using QGIS and Python.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
briancurtin.com
Writing a series of Python scripts to direct the robot taxi to the most affordable care per my pricing tables based on what WebMD (ChatGPT) tells me are my options. I’m in control of my healthcare and direct the taxi into oncoming traffic.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
stephenturner.us
Multi-agent AI enables evidence-based cell annotation in single-cell transcriptomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
Python: github.com/NygenAnalyti...
R: github.com/NygenAnalyti... #Rstats
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
towardsdatascience.com
Follow a practical Python guide to classify tweet sentiment with 3 different methods. This new article by Piero Paialunga covers TF-IDF, BERT embeddings, and a GPT-based approach.
The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) | Towards Data Science
A practical use case to describe how the data scientist job changed across three generations of machine learning
towardsdatascience.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
jperlow.bsky.social
I've been spending my weekend writing Python-based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) reports using vibe coding in GPT-5 and executing them on Google Colab. For fun. But wait until you see what it does, Florida Foodies. :)
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
dubroy.com
A cool paper from OOPSLA '25 —

An Empirical Evaluation of Property-Based Testing in Python
→ dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Some interesting findings:
- "Each property-based test finds about 50x as many mutations as the average unit test"
- "76% of mutations were found within the first 20 inputs"
Property-based testing (PBT) is a testing methodology with origins in the functional programming community. In recent years, PBT libraries have been developed for non-functional languages, including Python. However, to date, there is little evidence regarding how effective property-based tests are at finding bugs, and whether some kinds of property-based tests might be more effective than others. To gather this evidence, we conducted a corpus study of 426 Python programs that use Hypothesis, Python’s most popular library for PBT. We developed formal definitions for 12 categories of property-based test and implemented an intraprocedural static analysis that categorizes tests. Then, we evaluated the efficacy of test suites of 40 projects using mutation testing, and found that on average, each property-based test finds about 50 times as many mutations as the average unit test. We also identified the categories with the tests most effective at finding mutations, finding that tests that look for exceptions, that test inclusion in collections, and that check types are over 19 times more effective at finding mutations than other kinds of property-based tests. Finally, we conducted a parameter sweep study to assess the strength of property-based tests as a function of the number of random inputs generated, finding that 76% of mutations found were found within the first 20 inputs To address RQ2, assessing the effectiveness of test categories, we used mutation testing to assess the bug-finding power of each project’s test suite. Mutation testing or mutation analysis is a method of evaluating a test suite’s effectiveness. In a mutation test, small changes are made to a program’s source code, called mutations. The mutations are generated by mutation operators, which are syntactic transformation rules. Mutation operators often include swapping arithmetic operators (+ to -), flipping logical operators (and to or), and changing literals. The test suite is then run on the mutated program, and if any test fails, then the mutation is considered caught or killed. If no test fails, then the test suite did not identify the bug. The number of mutations caught is the test suite’s mutation score, and a higher score is indicative of a more robust test suite.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
tjmahr.com
I wrote negative peer review today and feel icky about it but I spent hours piecing together the correct python environment based on when they wrote the first version of the code which I only found with GitHub sleuthing
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
boothmanning.bsky.social
Python is a blight upon software development, but this is so based.
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
dingdingpeng.the100.ci
If you are wondering about their identification strategy.
Seems like they are controling for data collection site and years of education (and maybe also BMI). Seems a bit bold to assume that these were all existing confounders between soft drink consumption and depression and...the microbiome.
To test whether the effect of soft drink consumption on MDD diagnosis and symptom severity, respectively, was mediated by the gut microbiome, we used a mediation analysis with soft drink consumption as the predictor, Eggethella and Hungatella, respectively, as the mediator, and MDD diagnosis and symptom severity, respectively, as the outcome using the bias-corrected, nonparametric, bootstrap-based mediation analysis implemented in the Python pingouin library. Significance of the indirect (mediation) effect was computed using the permutation test as outlined by MacKinnon30 based on 10 000 permutations. Unless otherwise specified, all models included site and years of education as covariates to account for their potential confounding effects. We reran all the analyses including body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) as an additional covariate. For all analyses including microbiome data, library size (the total count of sequencing reads per sample in 16S rRNA gene sequencing) was added as a covariate. Age and sex did not differ between groups and were not included as covariates. Observations in which the dependent and/or independent variables exceeded 4 standard deviations from the mean were excluded to prevent undue influence from extreme values. Note that all hypothesis tests were 2-sided, with an α level set at .05. We performed sensitivity analyses for the mediation model, which are detailed in Supplement 1 (eMethods 4 in Supplement 1).
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
inkandswitch.com
We've got two lightning talks confirmed for next weeks London event: Building new tools for Science

* Agnes Cameron will tell us about Malleable Knitting Software
* Adewale Oshineye will share GeistFabrik, a Python-based divergence engine for Obsidian vaults.

~10 spots left if you want to join
Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma
Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…
luma.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
jamie-piscitelli.bsky.social
They should get with Monty Python and have a series of commercials where Michael Palin debates the airspeed velocity of a turkey foot-long based on bread and condiment choice with Sean Dunn.
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
chris.blue
Bringing the SlateDB Python API up to near-parity with Rust.

- snapshots
- transactions (SI/SSI)
- iterator-based scans with seek
- merge operator
- metrics
- TTL
- admin ops
- reader APIs
Overhaul Python API with snapshots, transactions, iterator scans, metrics by criccomini · Pull Request #977 · slatedb/slatedb
This pull request introduces significant improvements to the SlateDB Python bindings, focusing on developer experience, documentation, code quality, and test coverage. I vibe coded the entire thin...
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
realpython.com
🐍🎧 Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure

How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week, @mkennedy.codes returns to discuss his new book, "Talk Python in Production."

realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
queenrayna1337.bsky.social
Based Python Foundation 🐍🐍🐍
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
squidfunk.com
3/7 ZRX, our new differential build engine, makes repeated builds 4-5x faster:

– $ zensical serve – start writing immediately
– Fix typos in seconds, not minutes

We're just getting started: moving Python Markdown to a Rust-based parser in 2026 – unlocking its full potential.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
linkovitch.subsilico.co.uk
But at least you don't NEED to know c++ to use it, and I honestly think visual coding is easier to pick up than any text based code C#, PASCAL, Python any of them, rembering the magic words and syntax is more pain than linking boxes together, which I think is super powerful.
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
lyelhaz.bsky.social
Python! Based. Turning down a government grant because they were told not to use "DEI" while receiving the grant. Good for them.
The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5 million US government grant amid ethical concerns
Principled Python.
www.pcgamer.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
yokomation.bsky.social
OK let´s Texture piant him and as Promised, a Theard
1 - i used a color map for as a good base and two patten maps to create the base, based it off lizards but ended up with a more Python like Look to it i surpose 2 - i then just Threw in some Color ramps, madea few more Masks for the spots and used a displacemenat map for the main base colors 3 - i finally changed up a few things, removed the displacemeant maps and kep the pattens simple, for Retrosaurus i think it´s best to keep it simple at times. 4 - after a bit of reworking, this was the final color i went for on this T-Rex.
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
duckinator.bsky.social
Bork v10 has been released!

Bork is a build & release tool for Python, which can publish to PyPi & GitHub.

Major changes:
- `bork download` is deprecated in favor of `homf`
- release notes include a changelog based on merged PRs

Install: pipx install bork==10.0.3

Details: pup-e.com/blog/bork-v10
Bork v10.0 Release
pup-e.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
linux.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy
One of the great benefits of Open Source A 2008 Intel based Linux machine can run Docker. And it can run Claude in a browser. It can run Metasploit, or Python, or Terraform. It can take a video cal...

Origin | Interest | Match
One of the great benefits of Open Source [LWN.net]
lwn.net
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
taupirho.bsky.social
Property-based tests find bugs in your Python code you didn’t know existed. Checkout my latest @towardsdatascience.com post on the Hypothesis library for more details.

towardsdatascience.com/let-hypothes...
Let Hypothesis Break Your Python Code Before Your Users Do | Towards Data Science
Property-based tests that find bugs you didn’t know existed.
towardsdatascience.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
nickmyer.bsky.social
You were lucky..
Think Monty Python Sketch..😄
Yes, those were the days when everything wasn't wireless or computer based.. I remember that real World..
If I could go back in time..
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
thislittlelog.bsky.social
Based Python, if you have some cash to spare go toss it at them!
socksthewolf.com Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 17d
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
python.org Python Software Foundation @python.org · 17d
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
dubroy.com
A blog post from last year, which I never posted here —

Bytecode VMs in surprising places
→ dubroy.com/blog/bytecod...
Bytecode VMs in surprising places April 30, 2024 In response to a question on Twitter1, Richard Hipp wrote about why SQLite uses a bytecode VM for executing SQL statements. Most people probably associate bytecode VMs with general-purpose programming languages, like JavaScript or Python. But sometimes they appear in surprising places! Here are a few that I know about. eBPF Did you know that inside the Linux kernel, there’s an extension mechanism that includes a bytecode interpreter and a JIT compiler? I had no idea. Well, it’s called eBPF, and it’s pretty interesting: a register-based VM with ten general-purpose registers and over a hundred different opcodes.
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
paphvul.bsky.social
Officially based Python.
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM