Why AI agent scheduled tasks report 'completed' but produce empty results: Rice cookers chime even without rice

Hello, I'm Oudon🍜Rice cooker: "The rice is cooked♪" Oudon: "Yay!" Oudon: "...There's only hot water." Rice cooker: "It's ...
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Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...
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How to Verify a Provably Fair Dice Roll Yourself: Seeds, Nonces and HMAC-SHA256 Step by Step

Verify provably fair dice yourself: check the server seed hash, compute HMAC-SHA256, convert the digest to a roll, with a ...
linuxiac

Python 3.15 Released with Faster JIT, Lazy Imports, and UTF-8 by Default

Python 3.15 introduces lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, faster experimental JIT performance, and new profiling tools.

Think Before You Convert Categorical Variables to Numbers: How to Choose from 3 Encoding Methods

Up until the last article, we dealt with "numerical noise" such as missing values and outliers. This time, we are looking at data written in text (categorical variables), such as "Tokyo," "Osaka," ...
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better-exceptions

Thank you to everyone who has taken an interest in this project since I released it. It is now archived. better-exceptions was a throwaway module I wrote one night while toying with Starbound mods.