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scikit-learn @scikit-learn.org · 12/06/2026

🎉 Scikit-learn 1.9 released: ■Solid improvements to many existing estimators: faster, more stable, handling missing values, adding GPU support… ■Also, enhanced estimator displays in notebooks, ■And callbacks that enable progress bars or monitoring of convergence blog.scikit-learn.org/updates/rele...

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scikit-learn release 1.9: better numerics, new core functionality

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A cool idea from a colleague: a claude/cursor/etc plugin that searches for SKILL.md files in the installed packages of your Python environment

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

How do you distribute AI Agent skills to users of your python packages? As in, how do people who `pip install` your work get a skill that is relevant to your project?

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WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF @slfdavos.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

So war der Winter 2025/26: Ungünstiger Schneedeckenaufbau, sehr grosse Lawinengefahr im Februar, viele Lawinenunfälle Alle Infos gibt's im Winterrückblick: www.slf.ch/de/lawinenbu... 📷 M. Senn 1/3

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Kyle Kelley @kylekelley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Announcing nteract 2.0! www.nteract.io/blog/nteract... Native notebook app with managed python environments, realtime collaboration with agents, and some @deno.land to boot.

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nteract 2.0

A ground-up rebuild of the notebook app. New runtime, new architecture, new everything.

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Kyle Kelley @kylekelley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Silly agent. Asked for a happy little plot and it delivered.

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

How do you ship AI Agent Skills with your Python library? That is skills for the users of your library, not developers

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Olivier Grisel @ogrisel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The next scikit-learn release will allow inspecting the type and values of attributes of fitted estimators in Jupyter notebooks & example code rendered as HTML in sphinx-gallery powered project websites. scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_exa...

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do some people love AI for building software and others hate it? My guess is that people who happen to use code to solve a problem love AI, those who like the process of crafting code hate it. WDYT?

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Jacob Coffee @scriptr.dev · 19/02/2026

come work with meeee 🥹 The Python Software Foundation is hiring an infrastructure engineer. Apply: pythonsoftwarefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/DNzZlB...

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Infrastructure Engineer - Python Software Foundation - Career Page

Apply to Infrastructure Engineer at Python Software Foundation in Remote.

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Gilles Louppe @glouppe.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So how does it work? Meet Miniature (mini + IA, get it?), a complete AI agent in ~225 lines of Python. No frameworks, no abstractions. Code: github.com/glouppe/miniature

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GitHub - glouppe/miniature

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

For the last two day Strava hasn't manage to sync activities from Garmin. It feels like the early days of Strava again :D

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

How far away are we from the point where humans only use issues and PR comments, bots act on the issues and make PRs that then get human review and more input Instead of using an editor I might as well use the GitHub UI directly no?

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thoughts on using AI in public: betatim.github.io/posts/using-...

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Trust, but verify - using AI tools in public

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

How do you use AI tools to work on a project as a team?

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Kyle Kelley @kylekelley.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I just made a sidecar viewer of output you can run in jupyter console or even a regular ipython terminal to get rich interactives without a notebook. pip install runtimed import runtimed runtimed.sidecar()

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Gilles Louppe @glouppe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Seriously, shall we still teach students how to even program?

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Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs.dev · 01/02/2026

"The Synthetic Senior" — my #FOSDEM talk on AI + open source mentorship The 3 C's for finding contributors worth investing in: 💡 Comprehension ⚙️ Context 🔄 Continuity Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

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The Synthetic Senior | FOSDEM 2026

Thank you to the organizers: Laura & Shirley The Synthetic Senior FOSDEM 2026 Community Dev Room Abigail Cabunoc Mayes GitHub, SustainOSS, OpenJS @abbycabs Rethinking Free Software Mentorship in the A...

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Katelyn FitzGerald @kafitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You might check out some of the resources from Scientific Python if you haven't already: * learn.scientific-python.org/development/... * lectures.scientific-python.org/advanced/int...

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Compiled packaging

This guide is maintained by the scientific Python community for the benefit of fellow scientists and research software engineers.

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Question: I want to practice writing functions in C, then bring those functions into a Python package via ctypes. What is the best way to build the project since I am on a Windows OS and thus my compiler is different from Mac and Linux? #python #c #programming

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

LLMs are always confident about being able to help you, complete a task or answer a question. They are excellent at hiding their imposter syndrome 😂

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Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs.dev · 16/01/2026

Looking for examples: do you know any OSS projects that have thoughtfully updated their contribution process for AI-assisted PRs? Interested in: * PR templates asking for intent/reasoning * Comprehension checks * Other friction-adding methods Would love to learn from communities experimenting here

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

There is plenty on using AI agents to write code. Curious if anyone has practical patterns for using AI agents to review PRs (including agent‑written code). Got any blog posts, how‑tos, or examples you’d recommend?

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 16/12/2025

I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/...

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I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours

I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testi...

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Do you know if someone has attempted the "meta challenge" of building a repo that will write an implementation in your favourite language? Would be interesting to see how well the idea "use LLM as compiler of specs to super personalised implementation" works today

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Using AI in "agent mode" you realise how much of building software is about thinking and how little it is about writing code. When writing code suddenly takes ~zero time I realise how much time I used to have while typing to think about what I was doing

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Jacob Tomlinson @jacobtomlinson.dev · 06/01/2026

I think GitHub should make an update so when someone positively reviews a PR it adds them as a coauthor. That way they would show up in the git blame. In the age of AI development the reviewers are even more responsible than the committers for the code that gets merged.

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

In a few years time, will software libraries ship code or inputs to LLMs that users then "build" into specialised libraries by adding constraints for their use-cases?

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

A new version of scikit-learn has been released 🥳 check out the highlights: scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_... Thanks everyone who contributed to this release! Let me know what you think of the experimental GPU support

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Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.8

We are pleased to announce the release of scikit-learn 1.8! Many bug fixes and improvements were added, as well as some key new features. Below we detail the highlights of this release. For an exha...

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Over the last few months the @scikit-learn.org has been spending extra time on improving the open-source supply chain. My take away: don't stray too far from the standard and boring path when setting up CI. Too many ways of getting hacked. Thanks to @github.com blog.scikit-learn.org/press/gh-sosf/

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scikit-learn Completes the GitHub Secure Open Source Training

Author: Reshama Shaikh

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

You all know about "Eternal September" - I think I just figured out what I'm calling my AI agent editor: my eternal summer student :D

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

In the age of AI, LLMs and code assistants what does it mean to be an open-source project that is welcoming to newcomers? As a newcomer, is it enough to use AI to solve a good first issue and submit it as a PR? As a maintainer, what should you do with PRs like that?

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Olivier Grisel @ogrisel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Today at #EuroScipy2025, @glemaitre58.bsky.social and I presented a tutorial on pitfalls of machine learning for imbalanced classification problems. We discussed what (not) to do when fitting a classifier and obtaining degenerate precision or recall values. probabl-ai.github.io/calibration-...

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Imbalanced classification: pitfalls and solutions — Probabilistic calibration of cost-sensitive learning

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 17/07/2025

I scraped the schedule for Open Sauce 2025 this morning and built an alternative schedule interface with the option to add everything to your calendar (via ICS)... working entirely on my iPhone, using OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts Prompts + transcripts: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/...

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Scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone

This morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex …

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Kirstie Whitaker @kirstiejane.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

DID YOU KNOW: Speakers and tutorial or workshop leaders get free registration to #JupyterCon? DID YOU KNOW: The #deadline for submissions is Sunday, July 13 at 11:59 PM PDT (UTC -7) events.linuxfoundation.org/jupytercon/p...

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Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events

The Jupyter ecosystem has transformed data science, scientific research, and education. It has shaped the way a generation of developers and scientists develop their workflows.

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Has someone tried building a "stalebot" (closes stale GitHub issues) that uses a LLM or some such to decide if the issue is stale because the maintainers have not responded or because the creator hasn't followed up?

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Informal Pointless Python Survey

This is an informal, unscientific survey of (sort of) Python questions, with which I'd like to try to make something amusing, maybe something involving families feuding somehow. (I may have been inspi...

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

What about using cursor rules files to encode project maintainer knowledge? Put frequent PR review comments in these rules files so that contributors (that use AI tools) can fix/avoid them? Has anyone tried this? Useful? Too brittle?

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit" should be mandatory reading for people who use LLMs to generate text

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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.codes · 15/05/2025

Any scikit-image fans in Vienna? The skimage team would like to meet in Vienna for a code sprint Aug 14-16 ahead of EuroSciPy. We'd super appreciate it if someone's workplace can host us! All we need is electricity, natural light, and (most important) walking distance to coffee. ☕️😂🙏

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Gilles Louppe @glouppe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

<proud advisor> Hot off the arXiv! 🦬 "Appa: Bending Weather Dynamics with Latent Diffusion Models for Global Data Assimilation" 🌍 Appa is our novel 1.5B-parameter probabilistic weather model that unifies reanalysis, filtering, and forecasting in a single framework. A thread 🧵

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Has anyone experimented with making cursor/windsurf/etc rules to help contributors to open-source projects like numpy, scikit-learn, scikit-image and so on? If you could make rules that include some of the knowledge of the maintainers that could be cool

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WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF @slfdavos.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

So war der Winter 2024/25: Schneearm, ausgeprägtes inneralpines Altschneeproblem, wenig tödliche Lawinenunfälle Alle Infos gibts Winterflash: www.slf.ch/de/lawinenbu... 📷 N. Büchi 1/4

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What is a nice and short term* for referring to the collection of Python tools and libraries in the data science ecosystem? * should not be trademarked

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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.bsky.social. We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including: 💣 hacking LLMs 📑 data development ✂️ zine making feministai.party

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 01/04/2025

BREAKING! Guido van Rossum, the legendary creator of #Python, has officially reinstated himself as Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL). Feat. Guido van Rossum, @pumpichank.bsky.social, @snarky.ca and @mariatta.ca‬ Stay tuned for the documentary coming this summer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxB...

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BREAKING: Guido van Rossum Returns as Python's BDFL

YouTube video by Honeypot

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Tim Head @betatim.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The one crazy trick open-source maintainers don’t want you to know for getting your PRs reviewed: get a maintainer excited about it before making the PR

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