Leonard Stimpfle

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11/11#duckdb-mlpack_0.0.4 describing release 0.0.4 of the duckdb community extension mlpack.

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.4: Added random forest and logistic regression
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11...

Adds random forest and logistic regression, reworks interface, adds new state variable for verbosity, expands documentation and adds unit tests

Thought provoking, thanks. Nothing I can fundamentally disagree with but I understand people getting triggered by the headline's timing and the essay's somewhat one-sided framing (measuring progress by the change in IEA GHG projections seems rather generous, for example)

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

First up in the "You don't have to be a compiler engineer" blog post series?

A little blog post about how JIT builds of CPython actually work. 🖤

savannah.dev/posts/how-yo...

I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG 🧵)

It's great! I was very pleased to find the rapidfuzz extension (query.farm/duckdb_exten...). This can come in super handy for record linkage bsky.app/profile/cata...

This article is catching eyes today so let me explain what it misses, no. 1 of which is COST

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I'm probably missing something but util(Y) looks as expected to me: The resulting shape is always the shape of Y where the i-th axis is collapsed?

fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

How well do you know Python’s f-strings? I built a thing inspired by JavaScript’s Date constructor quiz but for Python. fstrings.wtf

No one knows how many users @obsidian.md has

I think it's around 5-10 million people but I'm not sure?

Anyone can download the app and start using it without creating an account or talking to anyone, and there are no analytics built-in 🤷‍♂️

Solicitud de colaboración para estudio sobre el impacto del aumento en los precios de energía

Hola - Estoy haciendo una encuesta sobre cómo se preparan las empresas mexicanas ante choques energéticos.
Help me out - I’m running a survey on how Mexican firms prepare for energy shocks.
Toma menos de 2 mins / Takes less than 2 mins:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I think my favorite line of Python code I've ever encountered is

curry = partial(partial, partial)

So simple, but also breaks your brain

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Explore & download the data

A crash course on Python function signatures and typing More than you probably ever wanted to know about Python function signatures and typing shenanigans. And it’s just the start.

How much do you know about #Python functions, their signatures, and their typing?

Do you know how unbound vs. bound methods differ and how to tell them apart?

Do you know how unbound methods become bound methods?

Do you know how to type-annotate all this?

chipx86.blog/2025/07/12/a...

#blog #til

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! I need to dig into this more but was wondering if the declaration ˋ_C = TypeVar('_C')ˋ is necessary? Could one get away with using typing.Any instead?

This is good advice for working with Python dataclasses in particular when subclassing

Since the ETS is not a tax but a regulation under EU law - and very likely found to be a regulation under WTO law, too - refunds of ETS charges upon export are prohibited export subsidies. Refunds of a carbon tax would be permissible, however 🙃. That rule needs an update, clearly. (2/2)

𝐏𝐲𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐬𝐭 0.30.1 is on 𝐏𝐲𝐏𝐢 and I am extremely happy with this release, mostly because of two 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: a Rust back end for all performance critical parts and quantile regression.

DUH-Aufnahmen decken erhebliche Methan-Emissionen auf • Aufnahmen der Deutschen Umwelthilfe und Clean Air Taskforce enthüllen regelmäßige und teils sehr hohe Methan-Emissionen an fossiler Gasinfrastruktur wie Produktionsstätten, Pipelines und Speichern• ...

Unsere Aufnahmen zeigen: An 17 von 26 Gasstandorten in Niedersachen treten hohe #Methan-Emissionen durch u.a. Leckagen aus. Das gefährdet unser Klima und die Gesundheit. Es braucht endlich eine strikte Umsetzung der EU-Methanverordnung – ohne Abstriche! www.duh.de/presse/press...

Disentangling Homophily, Community Structure, and Triadic Closure in Networks A method for analyzing networks can distinguish between two commonly conflated mechanisms for generating connections between nodes, thus improving understanding of how various networks form.

I think @tiago.skewed.de has some interesting work in a similar direction, for example doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers 🧪👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📲 Do not forget to download the "Conference4me" app on your smartphone: you will be able to browse the programme and create your own agenda for the Conference.

I don't know if bsky is a good platform for political debate.

But as a replacement for academic twitter -- if the 10-skeet response to this by @dandekadt.bsky.social , complete with tables & maps, doesn't make your heart go pitter patter on a Monday morning, I don't know what will.

Presenting an invitation to the open source python econometrics ecosystem with @s3alfisc.bsky.social on Thursday at a NABE webinar. Please come [and/or send us PRs!]

They also have talks from @jondr44.bsky.social and @lihualei.bsky.social lined up for later in the summer
nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

Have just shared the Stat output with you in the linked issue

New updated slides deck about Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD)

LP-DiD is a fast and simple to implement regression-based framework for estimating DiD, which can reproduce popular recent estimators as specific instances.

danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

'Forever chemicals' are seeping into waterways across Europe. A vanishingly small, man-made molecule resists all attempts of removal. How will the EU eradicate the pollution? www.ft.com/content/a36c...