Articles for category: AI Tools

March 16, 2025

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Python 3.14.0 alpha 5 is out

Here comes the antepenultimate alpha. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140a5/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a5, is the fifth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2025-05-06) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2025-07-22). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and

March 15, 2025

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Admitting What Is Obvious

This week we refocused Every around one big question: “What comes next?” It’s a powerful thing to organize a company around a core question. In order to answer that question for Every, I first had to answer it for myself. I needed to know: Who am I? What do I really want to do with my life? It was almost exactly a year ago that I realized I wanted to be a writer. Everything that has happened since at Every has come from understanding that truth about myself. It seems obvious in hindsight, but sometimes the most obvious truths are

March 15, 2025

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Quoting Evan Miller

One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term quality of computer code is to write automated tests that ensure the program continues to act as expected, even when other people (including your future self) muck with it. — Evan Miller Tags: testing, evan-miller Source link

March 15, 2025

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Rapid grouping and ungrouping | Deephaven

Deephaven is commonly used to manipulate huge amounts of data — multiple tables, billions of rows, and hundreds of columns. It’s built to excel in both versatility of operations and speed of execution. In this article, we’ll explore how Deephaven optimizes memory usage for rapid grouping and ungrouping, and then cover how choosing the right selection method can change the execution time of operations by orders of magnitude. Finally, we’ll delve into strategies you can employ to write the most efficient queries possible. Deephaven saves time automatically where possible, but it’s still up to you to write efficient queries. We’ll

March 15, 2025

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Data Machina #247 – Data Machina

The New Breed of Open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Models. In a push to beat the closed-box AI models from the AI Titans, many startups and research orgs have embarked in releasing open MoE-based models. These new breed of MoE-based models introduce many clever architectural tricks, and seek to balance training cost efficiency, output quality, inference performance and much more. For an excellent introduction to MoEs, checkout this long post by the Hugging Face team: Mixture of Experts Explained We’re starting to see several open MoE-based models achieving near-SOTA or SOTA performance as compared to e.g. OpenAI GPT-4 and Google Gemini 1.5

March 15, 2025

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Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind

I suffer from monkey mind, chronic imposter syndrome, and the hedonic treadmill. A few friends have confided that they have the same issue too. Perhaps you can relate as well. To improve my mental well-being, I meditate, write morning pages, and keep a gratitude journal. However, as helpful as these techniques are, they primarily rely on introspection. What was missing was an external perspective—someone who could ask follow-up questions, challenge my assumptions, and help untangle my thoughts and emotions. Enter ChatGPT. Over the past year, I’ve been using it as my therapist and coach. It’s been surprisingly helpful and meets

March 15, 2025

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From PHP to Python – porting a Reddit clone with the help of Amazon Q Developer

In this blog post I share how I was able to use Amazon Q Developer CLI to refactor code from one programming language to another Many years ago, I spend many happy years developing code in PHP. It was such an accessible and tactile language, with a great community momentum that continues to this day. One of the things I used to enjoy, was trying out many of the open source clones of well known websites that the PHP community would release. I mention this because the topic of PHP had come up in some conversations I was having, and

March 15, 2025

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Replicate Intelligence #12 – Replicate blog

Welcome to Replicate’s weekly bulletin! Each week, we’ll bring you updates on the latest open-source AI models, tools, and research. People are making cool stuff and we want to share it with you. Without further ado, here’s our hacker-in-residence deepfates with an unfiltered take on the week in AI. Editor’s note Earlier this week I turned into Hot Mark Zuckerberg. I just did it to test this deepfake library (which turned out to not even be open source after all but oh well) but now I feel weird about the future of Reality. You know how Zuck has been rehabilitating