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JMarkOckerbloom, 23 days ago to random

Anyone know if Simon Willison's #PyConUS keynote will be generally available? I'd be interested in checking out a recording or transcript.

I've seen a few folks credit him for the phrase "imitation intelligence", which sounds to me like a concise way to note how Alan Turing's concept of AI as an imitation game has largely outlived its usefulness in the LLM age.

Magic tricks, e.g., have long fooled even people familiar with how sleight of hand works. But we don't say magicians do real magic.

nedbat, 1 month ago to python

Do people run #Python unittest suites from inside Jupyter notebooks? Any insights into this as an approach? https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1762

gvwilson, 2 months ago to random

The Python version of "Software Design by Example" will be out Real Soon: you can read the content at https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/ or order a hard copy at https://www.routledge.com/9781032725215 - please use the code "SMA22" to get 20% off. All royalties will go to support the Red Door Family Shelter in Toronto (https://www.reddoorshelter.ca/).

Cover of "Software Design by Example: A Tool-Based Introduction with Python"

carlton, 8 months ago to random

I think the #diango DB cascades PR is coming on. Sen, the author, not yet on Mastodon, just gave me a “Try and break it” — that’s the sort of flex I like 😜 He’s doing an amazing job 🏅

(I SO want this feature. SO going to be running off main)

https://github.com/django/django/pull/16851

simon, 11 months ago to random

I finally spent some time figuring out a minimal way of developing and packaging a Python library using a pyproject.toml file

It turns out you can do it with just a pyproject.toml file - no setup.py, no setup.cfg - and the only tools you need are pip and build, with no need to use Poetry/Hatch/Flit/etc for the simplest case

https://til.simonwillison.net/python/pyproject