I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT

And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to play my best, but because of what they reveal ...
Reuters

OpenAI to buy Python toolmaker Astral to take on Anthropic

March 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Thursday it will acquire Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT owner looks to strengthen its portfolio against ‌rival Anthropic and gain more share in the ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
InfoWorld

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...
IEEE

Do More With Less: Five Years of Teaching a Short Python Programming Course in a Non-Technical School in Estonia

Abstract: Despite the increasing relevance of programming skills for future careers, informatics courses remain non-compulsory in Estonian schools. This paper presents the emergence, evolution, and ...
The News-Press

This is what happens when a GoPro camera is attached to a python

Burmese pythons are an invasive species causing destruction in the Florida Everglades. The snakes have contributed to the decline of several small mammal populations. Estimates place the Burmese ...
Forbes

Programming In The Age Of AI: Why Code Still Matters

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...
Wired

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...
marktechpost

What is Asyncio? Getting Started with Asynchronous Python and Using Asyncio in an AI Application with an LLM

In many AI applications today, performance is a big deal. You may have noticed that while working with Large Language Models (LLMs), a lot of time is spent waiting—waiting for an API response, waiting ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...
techannouncer

Mastering Automation with the Google Python Certification

So, you’re thinking about getting that Google IT Automation with Python Certificate? It’s a pretty popular choice right now, and for good reason. Basically, it teaches you how to make computers do ...