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The Python community has lost one of its early contributors. 🕊️
Guido van Rossum, Python's creator, announced the passing of Tim Peters at the age of 74.
Peters was Python's second real user, creator of Timsort, author of the Zen of Python (PEP 20), and a member of the Python Software Foundation board for 13 years.
His contributions will live on in the Python ecosystem.
Rest in peace, Tim Peters. ❤️
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The more I use Apple Containers, the more I like them!
My latest use: giving a coding agent read-only access to a codebase on the fly for investigation.
1. Start a disposable container. It takes about half a second 🔥
2. Mount one folder only, read-only
3. Run the agent inside (like pi). It can search, read, and reach the web with curl
4. Get the answer, destroy the container
An agent with a shell is powerful and risky: it could change files or read anything on your Mac 🤷🏻♂️.
The container here is the fence: total freedom, nothing to break outside. (we hope 🤣)
Apple prepara #Harbor, una aplicación para ejecutar modelos de IA en local que permitirá conectar varios Mac mediante Thunderbolt 5 y aprovechar su memoria unificada. Lo que no me convence es la aparente dependencia de Hugging Face. appleinsider.com/articles/26…
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A CNN analysis of videos and images of some of the buildings — both during an extraordinarily fast construction process and after their collapse — suggests that construction flaws may have contributed to the mass tragedy. cnn.it/4zCf7V4
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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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¡Ya podéis viajar al Madrid del siglo XIX sin perderos!
Publico un Google Maps histórico para descubrir dónde alojaros, dónde tomar un café con Galdós y recorrer las calles del Madrid de época a través de imágenes históricas.
👉madridxix.es/mapa/
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Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente resigned amid growing political pressure after a high-speed train crash killed 69 people bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Óscar Puente revealed that a high-speed train was allowed to keep running at over 160 km/h after its safety system failed, as rail workers threaten to strike. #EuropeNews l.euronews.com/6ZEF
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Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
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Spain’s Minister of Transport Óscar Puente announced his resignation after two deadly train crashes occurred in a single year, including one last week that killed 69 people. cnn.com/2026/11/03/americas/…
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Spain's transport minister says he will resign after latest deadly train crash reut.rs/4AagPg4
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Spanish transport minister resigns days after deadly train crash bbc.in/4im5RhA
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Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente said he'd resign after two deadly train crashes in less than a year, without specifying when he will leave his post reut.rs/4zq7bWG
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Spain's transport minister Óscar Puente resigns six days after train crash killed 69 people bbc.in/4iwxrHJ
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"De los cuatro accidentes más mortíferos de la historia con trenes de alta velocidad, tres han ocurrido en España. Y dos, este año. Es una estadística terrorífica que exige respuestas."
Lo contaba ayer en la newsletter. Los datos: elpais.com/internacional/202…
Quiero conocer a Salvador 🫂 vm.tiktok.com/ZN8UpTrMP/
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Gracias @guardiacivil
Escuchen a Salvador de @guardiacivil con mi compañera @yosoymariaruiz
Salvador. Y tantos servidores públicos que estos días hacen mejor nuestro país.
Una mano con la pulsera de una hermandad de Sevilla. Y un nombre, Almudena.
El guardia civil Salvador agarró aquella mano en el coche 8 y le prometió que iba a salir con vida. Y así fue.
Tras más de una hora de complicadísimos trabajos de rescate, pudieron sacarla y evacuarla al hospital.
El testimonio uno de los muchos compañeros de la #GuardiaCivil y servicios de emergencias que tuvieron que intervenir en el accidente ferroviario de Urda (Toledo).
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Una mano con la pulsera de una hermandad de Sevilla. Y un nombre, Almudena.
El guardia civil Salvador agarró aquella mano en el coche 8 y le prometió que iba a salir con vida. Y así fue.
Tras más de una hora de complicadísimos trabajos de rescate, pudieron sacarla y evacuarla al hospital.
El testimonio uno de los muchos compañeros de la #GuardiaCivil y servicios de emergencias que tuvieron que intervenir en el accidente ferroviario de Urda (Toledo).