🎉 Scikit-learn 1.9 released: ■Solid improvements to many existing estimators: faster, more stable, handling missing values, adding GPU support… ■Also, enhanced estimator displays in notebooks, ■And callbacks that enable progress bars or monitoring of convergence blog.scikit-learn.org/updates/rele...

A cool idea from a colleague: a claude/cursor/etc plugin that searches for SKILL.md files in the installed packages of your Python environment

Tim Head@betatim.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How do you distribute AI Agent skills to users of your python packages? As in, how do people who `pip install` your work get a skill that is relevant to your project?

How do you distribute AI Agent skills to users of your python packages? As in, how do people who `pip install` your work get a skill that is relevant to your project?

So war der Winter 2025/26: Ungünstiger Schneedeckenaufbau, sehr grosse Lawinengefahr im Februar, viele Lawinenunfälle Alle Infos gibt's im Winterrückblick: www.slf.ch/de/lawinenbu... 📷 M. Senn 1/3

Announcing nteract 2.0! www.nteract.io/blog/nteract... Native notebook app with managed python environments, realtime collaboration with agents, and some @deno.land to boot.

nteract 2.0

A ground-up rebuild of the notebook app. New runtime, new architecture, new everything.

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Silly agent. Asked for a happy little plot and it delivered.

How do you ship AI Agent Skills with your Python library? That is skills for the users of your library, not developers

The next scikit-learn release will allow inspecting the type and values of attributes of fitted estimators in Jupyter notebooks & example code rendered as HTML in sphinx-gallery powered project websites. scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_exa...

Why do some people love AI for building software and others hate it? My guess is that people who happen to use code to solve a problem love AI, those who like the process of crafting code hate it. WDYT?

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So how does it work? Meet Miniature (mini + IA, get it?), a complete AI agent in ~225 lines of Python. No frameworks, no abstractions. Code: github.com/glouppe/miniature

GitHub - glouppe/miniature

Contribute to glouppe/miniature development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Gilles Louppe@glouppe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

From raw LLM weights to a full AI agent (tool calls, reasoning loop, the whole thing) in under 200 lines of Python. New lecture coming to my deep learning course this year. 😎

For the last two day Strava hasn't manage to sync activities from Garmin. It feels like the early days of Strava again :D

How far away are we from the point where humans only use issues and PR comments, bots act on the issues and make PRs that then get human review and more input Instead of using an editor I might as well use the GitHub UI directly no?

Thoughts on using AI in public: betatim.github.io/posts/using-...

How do you use AI tools to work on a project as a team?

I just made a sidecar viewer of output you can run in jupyter console or even a regular ipython terminal to get rich interactives without a notebook. pip install runtimed import runtimed runtimed.sidecar()

Seriously, shall we still teach students how to even program?

Eris ⌬@eriskii.net · 8mo ago

opus 4.6 oneshot a C compiler of the course of *2 weeks*

"The Synthetic Senior" — my #FOSDEM talk on AI + open source mentorship The 3 C's for finding contributors worth investing in: 💡 Comprehension ⚙️ Context 🔄 Continuity Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

The Synthetic Senior | FOSDEM 2026

Thank you to the organizers: Laura & Shirley The Synthetic Senior FOSDEM 2026 Community Dev Room Abigail Cabunoc Mayes GitHub, SustainOSS, OpenJS @abbycabs Rethinking Free Software Mentorship in the A...

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You might check out some of the resources from Scientific Python if you haven't already: * learn.scientific-python.org/development/... * lectures.scientific-python.org/advanced/int...

Question: I want to practice writing functions in C, then bring those functions into a Python package via ctypes. What is the best way to build the project since I am on a Windows OS and thus my compiler is different from Mac and Linux? #python #c #programming

LLMs are always confident about being able to help you, complete a task or answer a question. They are excellent at hiding their imposter syndrome 😂

Looking for examples: do you know any OSS projects that have thoughtfully updated their contribution process for AI-assisted PRs? Interested in: * PR templates asking for intent/reasoning * Comprehension checks * Other friction-adding methods Would love to learn from communities experimenting here

There is plenty on using AI agents to write code. Curious if anyone has practical patterns for using AI agents to review PRs (including agent‑written code). Got any blog posts, how‑tos, or examples you’d recommend?

I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/...

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours

I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testi...

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Do you know if someone has attempted the "meta challenge" of building a repo that will write an implementation in your favourite language? Would be interesting to see how well the idea "use LLM as compiler of specs to super personalised implementation" works today

Using AI in "agent mode" you realise how much of building software is about thinking and how little it is about writing code. When writing code suddenly takes ~zero time I realise how much time I used to have while typing to think about what I was doing

I think GitHub should make an update so when someone positively reviews a PR it adds them as a coauthor. That way they would show up in the git blame. In the age of AI development the reviewers are even more responsible than the committers for the code that gets merged.

In a few years time, will software libraries ship code or inputs to LLMs that users then "build" into specialised libraries by adding constraints for their use-cases?

A new version of scikit-learn has been released 🥳 check out the highlights: scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_... Thanks everyone who contributed to this release! Let me know what you think of the experimental GPU support

Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.8

We are pleased to announce the release of scikit-learn 1.8! Many bug fixes and improvements were added, as well as some key new features. Below we detail the highlights of this release. For an exha...

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