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Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity. It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lowers productivity by 5%. Noise is also greater in poorer neighborhoods... joshuatdean.com/wp-content/upl…

Great! Huge kudos to the core devs who voted "[...] to accept and support the maintenance cost of PEP 703?". Important for the future of performant #Python and highly appreciated.

WOW! IT'S HAPPENING: the Steering Council posted their "intent to accept PEP 703", in other words to allow for a version of #Python without the #GIL. Sam Gross's heroic effort to prove nogil is feasible will be paying off. Now the real work begins! discuss.python.org/t/a-steering-c…

Selfie with a 1/4 scale model of #JWST. #scientifica23 at ETH Zurich.

9. But am also a #python dev. #focus on essential.

How long ago was the greenhouse effect of CO2 postulated? xkcd.com/2889/

Cool insight on IT engineering.

Was für ein überwältigend klares Bekenntnis zum Flughafen: Über 60% sagen JA zur Pistenverlängerung. Eine deutliche Abfuhr für die böswillige Verunsicherungskampagne der Gegner.

Was ist eine Gemeinsamkeit der Debakel von #Swissair, Credit Suisse und Signa? Die undurchsichtige und überaus komplexe Finanzstruktur, die CFOs (Schorderet, Mathers, Benko selbst) schaffen und nur selbst vielleicht noch überblicken. NZZ: nzz.ch/wirtschaft/cre…

Wirklich guter und einfühlsamer Artikel zwischen Tourismus, Entwicklung und ursprünglichen Lebensformen im Wald: nzz.ch/reisen/reisen-… NZZ #Tourismus #Wald

Why does Vice President JD Vance's plane circumvent the French airspace? Flightradar24 !

#Thought experiment on a foggy Sunday: Our #brain likes to be lazy to conserve energy. What if it would realize there is abundant food (and too much sugar), so it doesn't need to conserve energy? Would we be smarter? Happier? Tired? Forget to sleep? Would we live or die?

Please join me in starting 2025 with a reflection on Personal Data for AI: “Follow the money” is the tenet of many crime stories. “Follow the data” is essential for AI safety. linkedin.com/posts/martin-g…

tagesanzeiger.ch/fertig-gelaerm… Jay! Endlich! Vielleicht etwas überreguliert, aber die Laubblasenden, die ganzjährig stundenlang meist nur Staub blasen, haben sich das selbst eingebrockt. #Zürich #Lärm

Calling all the cool and amazing #Pythonistas - let us know how you use #Python and what your favorite libraries are by completing our survey surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-deve… #JetBrains #PyCharm #FOSS #OpenSource surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-deve…