Davis Bennett
@davisvbennett.bsky.social
Open source software developer. I spend a lot of time working on Zarr. Formerly worked on bioimaging data stuff @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
pixi 0.76 can now run standalone python scripts in isolated, on-demand environments. dependencies live inline via PEP 723, like uv supports, but pixi can layer on conda and system dependencies too. fun to build this with @prefix.dev folks. coming to a @marimo.io notebook near you SOON.
Prepare to be dazzled! I saw a chickadee in the bird bath so I went out to get a video & then the hummingbird decided to have a drink & bath as well. I put the fountain there for the birds & hummingbirds - glad it is getting put to good use! ♥️
It's an exciting day for #Fiji users! Now read and write @zarr.dev v3 and #OMEZarr v0.5. Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker! Read the details here forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...
Fiji can read and write Zarr3 & OME-Zarr v0.5 (new N5 release!)
Updating your Fiji-Latest installation will give you the newest versions of the N5 library, enabling OME-Zarr v0.5 / Zarr v3 support with sharding! What's new? Reading zarr 3 datasets (sharded and u...
forum.image.sc
New video: Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser youtu.be/NwhVJ7cv9B4
Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser
YouTube video by Applied Science
youtu.be
hate when a heat wave lasts too long and my village formally switches from human law to "natural law".
summer swimming pool season at my neighbor's house. the usual crew is there: - some people - a guy in a suit of armor who sits at the bottom of the pool with an air hose going into his helmet. people try to get him with a sword or axe, but his armor is just too strong
Charles Khoury (Lebanese, b. 1966). Untitled (2015, mixed media on canvas).
Agentic coding is genuinely useful now, and there are some impressive reports of AI agents doing science. But how well and how reliably can they handle tasks scientists actually want to hand off, ones that bottleneck progress? How do we even measure that?? New paper🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2606.07718 1/10
A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline
Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where...
arxiv.org
“Landscape” by renowned Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams.
excited for this github.com/python/cpyth...
Add "array_hook" parameter to JSON decoder · Issue #146440 · python/cpython
Feature or enhancement Proposal: The json.load and .loads in Python are customizable, allowing callbacks to be passed for transforming decoded JSON objects, key/value pairs, integers, floats, json ...
github.com
new package: pypi.org/project/zarr... plain types for working with Zarr data!
zarr-metadata
Spec-defined metadata types for Zarr v2 and v3.
pypi.org
You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,
This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America
Scenes from “Star Wars: Revenge of the Chick” being filmed on our Island
![[David]Hockney painting Ken Tyler's pool, 1986.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gikxwqmhr4xyewyd75iwpgrd/bafkreid4cmudglflrxeegdhavplchdf6b6wsjj4ksswulyro32ndtpmcqy)
