Today I discovered the Python package "polyfactory" by Litestar , which uses Faker and Pydantic to generate believable mock test data. It's a combo that just makes sense.

Made Tailwind 25% faster yesterday by realizing utility classes never start with a capital letter 😯

Charlie Marsh Would be keen to see an experiment abandoning traditional bug reports and instead requiring a PR containing an xfailing test Then the fix just has to pass that test I've thought about enacting it, but it seems a bit too difficult for newbies / unfriendly

Learning how to use the debugger was one of the best investments of time I’ve ever spent.

Who is doing “upscaling” for AI generated music?

New York City absolutely begging for a Vietnamese soup spot named Phogeddaboudit.

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. Along with Maciej Wołczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

you know what happened last time we got an apple that gave you intelligence. and it was written in python too

🚨 Role Prompting doesn't work... Our team at Learn Prompting led a year-long study with co-authors from OpenAI & Microsoft, analyzing over 1,500 prompting papers. We narrowed it down to 58 different prompting techniques and we analyzed every one. Here's what we found...

In my first feature for Businessweek Bloomberg, I dug into a question that everyone I know has had for years: Putting everyday goods like toothbrushes and deodorant behind locked plexiglass can't actually be working out well for the stores that do it, right? bloomberg.com/news/features/…

How it started: How it's going:

If you’re considering using LLMs for hiring decisions, think again. “In all three MTE models, white names were preferred in a full 85.1 percent of the conducted tests, compared to Black names being preferred in just 8.6 percent.” arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/stu…

Duck typing? You're thinking too small. With AI, we can finally take Guido van Rossum's dream to its logical conclusion

factorio but you get to optimize throughput for a real life trader joes