Mole: Deep clean and optimize your Mac. #apple

Recent Python bookmarks:

• How uv got so fast: uv is fast because of what it doesn’t do, not because of what language it’s written in.
• profiling.sampling: statistical profiler via periodic stack sampling introduced in Python 3.15.
• Exploring Mathematics with Python: mathematics with Python as a replacement to Turbo Pascal.

/me is listening to “Albatross” by Alela Diane

Jardin Tino Rossi, Paris, Dec. 2025

Note that this updates cells live in response to previous cells that they depend on. Not pictured is that it doesn’t update cells if their dependencies haven’t changed. You can think of this as a spreadsheet-like Jupyter, where code is only rerun when necessary. — the terminal of the future

Still I don’t really like web-based notebooks.

I agree that it can be difficult to make sense of a model containing billions of parameters. Certainly a human can’t understand such a model by inspecting the values of each parameter individually. But one can gain insight by examing the properties of the model—where it succeeds and fails, how well it learns as a function of data, etc. — On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

Flocking Quadtrees.

Introduction to Software Development Tooling: Lot of good stuff and very clear handouts.

New kid on the blocks: ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and LSP. I’m pretty happy with basedpyright at present, but I will check this new tool. #python