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BM25 is an unsung hero powering heaps of stuff you use every day – think search bars, recommendation systems, or even those fancy AI chatbots that somehow dig up the right info from a mountain of text (we're looking at you, Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

OpenAI have dropped their new Agents Platform. Swyx and Alessio chat with Nikunj Handa and Romain Huet of OpenAI to discuss the release.

Let's be real, nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, "You know what I need more of in my life? Python lambda functions." But here we are. Buckle up, because this is the lambda tutorial you didn't ask for—but secretly need.

I listened to Senra's great episode on Todd Graves of Raising Cane's fame this morning. Here are my snips from the episode.

Pelican is a powerful static site generator written in Python, primarily designed for blogs. However, sometimes you need to include custom HTML pages that don't fit into Pelican's standard content model. This guide explains how to add standalone HTML pages to your Pelican site while preserving their exact formatting and …

The io.BytesIO class in Python is an in-memory stream for binary data. It provides a file-like interface that lets you read and write bytes just like you would with a file, but all the data is kept in memory rather than on disk. This can be extremely useful when …

Pelican provides a syntax for linking to another post by its filename.

I’ve long used rsync for high fidelity, detailed copies of large swathes of files in Linux. For example:

I bought an 8TB external SSD to use as a live boot Linux device. I knew that this issue was due to the way that bits are aggregated into terabytes, but — thanks to our mate ChatGPT — here’s a nice explanation of why my 8TB SSD only shows 7,452 …