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This comes at the right time, especially with vscode retiring their data viewer

TIL an insane amount of r&d went into making Matplotlib's colormaps www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAol...

The developer changing his mind while writing the docs and letting us know

It's so annoying that "graph" is both used to refer to plots in general and to a specific type of plots. Searching "interactive graph" on google brings up line plots when I'm really looking for graphs with nodes and edges...

Classical Streisand effect. Now someone released a dataset of 298M posts! huggingface.co/datasets/evb...

When I a run a job on the gpu sitting on my desk, I always whisper words of encouragement "it's ok, you've got this" just in case models are actually sentient. You never know.

TIL you can do print(f"{big_number:,}") to display a comma separated number. It's so much easier to read this way.

My curse is wanting to spend a week trying to optimize my GPU utilization when the job could finish by the morning if I let it run

Still waiting for that fruit fly brain they mapped to drop on @huggingface.bsky.social

LLMs in the terminal are one killer use case, but I'm wary of how it atrophies my CLI warrior skills as I find myself abusing it for even the most basic commands