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> Partly because I wanted my config to survive without breakage across Emacs releases. Partly because I was tired of dealing with package repositories, mirrors going down in the mi…

Yeah, the frontend is from scratch. Each bullet is just a div contenteditable. The DOM is the state (Claude Code suggested the usual frontend pattern of separate state and rerender…

Trying out vibe-coding (so mostly not even reading the code) a note-taking web app that's essentially a simplified and dirt-cheap to host Workflowy clone. That seems to me like an …

I recently revised my script to rely on (1) no commits in the last 30 days and (2) branch not found on origin. This is obviously not perfect, but it's good enough for me and just i…

How do you handle missing values (NA)?

No, it's been working without problems so far. I'm using Anthropic for what it's worth. I ask the LLM to first do some reasoning and then return a JSON array on the final line. Som…

Looking at the console messages with the LLM reasoning, it does seem to work quite nicely for deduplication. Your example is probably even a lot easier than news articles, where yo…

I've been experimenting with using LLMs for a content recommender system. Specifically I've built a news reader app that fetches news articles from multiple RSS feeds, uses an LLM …

My favorite of the year would be Maxim Gorky's three-part autobiography: I read "Childhood" and "In the World" (a.k.a. "Amid Attendants") and just started the last part "My Univers…

It's unfortunate that Python and R don't really have any out-of-the-box means of opening data files from arguments, but if you do this kind of stuff on a daily basis it's something…

https://archive.ph/MLJHu

Agreed! It's easy understand "LLM with tools in a loop" at a high-level, but once you actually design the architecture and implement the code in full, you'll have proper understand…

Something similar for GNOME: https://github.com/ghi59/floating-mini-panel Been using it for a couple weeks now and find it really nice. Tried some auto-hide panel extensions before…

I used to hate matplotlib because of its awful API and awful API documentation. These days I just ask an LLM "add thousand separators on the y-axis", "add a vertical line ar zero" …

I think the choice of using functions instead of classes + methods doesn't really fit well into Python. Either you need to do a huge amount of imports or use the awful `from siuba …

I don't quite agree, but if this was true, what would you tell a junior colleague in a code review? You can't use this function/argument/convention/etc you found in the official AP…

Building on top of Pandas feels like you're only escaping part of the problems. In addition to the API, the datatypes in Pandas are a mess, with multiple confusing (and none of the…

Agreed, never had a problem with the speed of anything NumPy or Arrow based. Here's my alternative: https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter https://dataiter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_…

Two questions: 1. Does this make the apps show up as separate windows in Alt+Tab and a Dock etc? (FWIW I use GNOME + Dash to dock + Wayland) 2. Let's say you have a mail app and yo…

The current memory use of string arrays is another major issue, glad to see this being worked on!

How is that convenient? Missing data support belongs deep in NumPy itself (or any other similar package) so that operations can do the right thing and missing values propagate corr…

np.nan is only for floats, doesn't help with integer, boolean, string etc. Also, datetimes have NaT, but it's troublesome to e.g. do different checks np.isnan() or np.isnat() depen…

Still no NA?

The data frame is a Python dict and I consider that a feature so that users know how to e.g. loop through columns with .items() etc. That then means that bracket notation is reserv…