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🐍 Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📋25 Best Project Management Tools in 2026
📊Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025
🔮Rodney Brooks’s Predictions Scorecard-2026
🗣️A 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40 KB
🔉 OpenAI ramps up audio AI efforts ahead of device
💡 AI Tutorial:Use Claude for Chrome to book business trips
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
There are numbers every Python programmer should know. For example, how fast or slow is it to add an item to a list in Python? What about opening a file? Is that less than a millisecond? Is there something that makes that slower than you might have guessed? If you have a performance sensitive algorithm, which data structure should you use? How much memory does a floating point number use?
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Efficient project management is critical for teams aiming to meet deadlines, stay organized, and optimize workflows. With the growing demand for advanced tools, here are the 25 best project management software solutions for 2026, complete with their standout features and descriptions:
Another year. It passed extremely fast and yet, painfully slow. Despite developing tech that some think might take over our day-to-day work, data things got made by people this year. These are my (Nathan Yau’s) favorites…
This is my eighth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up. I promised then to review them at the start of the year every year until 2050 (right after my 95th birthday), thirty two years in total.
A developer created Z80-μLM to answer a simple question: how small can you go while still being useful?Z80-μLM is a 'conversational AI' that generates short character-by-character sequences, with quant-aware training designed specifically for 8-bit hardware constraints. Each weight is just 2 bits ({-2, -1, 0, +1}), packed four per byte.
Q4 is the perfect window to turn this year’s numbers into a clear, actionable forecast aligned with your goals. Set your business up for a stronger 2026 with BELAY’s new guide.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Llama 2
The next generation of Meta's open source large language model. Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.
LazyVim
LazyVim is a Neovim setup powered by lazy.nvim to make it easy to customize and extend your config.
axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.
docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.
AI News:
China’s DeepSeek published a new AI training method that analysts say could change how large models scale. DeepSeek introduces a new training method called, mHC, shows how to widen that internal pathway without breaking training. It adds extra internal connections but keeps them mathematically constrained, so the model can share more information while still behaving predictably.
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OpenAI has spent the last two months quietly reshuffling teams to rebuild its audio models. This is not just about nicer voices in ChatGPT. According to The Information, it is groundwork for an audio-first personal device planned for about a year from now. The focus is on making voice feel natural, with interruptions, overlap, and timing that resemble real conversation.
Baidu confirmed that its AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing as a step toward a spin-off valued at about $3B. The move follows a strong 2025 IPO rebound in Hong Kong and aligns with China’s effort to strengthen domestic semiconductor production amid U.S. export restrictions.
One of the big transformations of this year will be robotaxis. Waymo will likely partner with Uber in many locations because Uber owns demand, but over time, Waymo will want to go direct. Cybercab will appear sometime this year and undercut both Uber and Waymo in price.
Adobe announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Runway. The partnership brings together Runway’s generative video technology and Adobe’s industry-leading creative tools, trusted by creators and brands to define the next generation of AI-powered video workflows.
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AI Tutorial
🏨 Use Claude for Chrome to book business trips
In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up Claude to control your browser and automate hours of travel research, pulling together a list of recommended hotels with up-to-date pricing and availability in a Google Sheet.
Step-by-step:
Install the "Claude in Chrome" extension from Chrome webstore, then navigate to it and type /shortcuts → "Create Shortcut" named /hotel-picker
Prompt: "When searching hotels on Booking.com: (1) Filter 'Hotels' only, (2) Apply distance/star rating filters (default 4+ stars), (3) Find top 10 based on criteria AND reviews (8.5+ Booking.com, 4+ TripAdvisor), (4) Prioritize modern properties with amenities. Return the top 10 sorted by value"
Create a Google Sheet with headers: Hotel Name, Price per Night, Rating, Distance to Downtown, Amenities, Booking Link—then copy the sheet’s URL
Test: "I'm traveling to [location] from [date]. Find hotels within 1 mile of downtown under [price per night]. Navigate to [YOUR SPREADSHEET URL] and add a row for each hotel. Sort by best value"
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