"The history keeps growing every time I call it"—A story about falling into the trap of Python's default arguments

Last week, I was given a small assignment in class. It was a seemingly simple task: "Write a function that records test ...

How to use BAML—A language for agents to write in. One line to install, 4 basic commands, and steps to call from Python

Have you ever thought this while having an AI agent write code?"It works, but I don't know why it's working."There are casts ...
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Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning

Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard ...

Solution to Evan Birnholz’s Sept. 20 crossword, ‘Sites and Sounds’

It’s nine themeless crosswords plus a “preseason” puzzle, once per week, starting on Sept. 28 and continuing through November ...