Many teams are approaching agentic AI with a mixture of interest and unease. Senior leaders see clear potential for efficiency and scale. Builders see an opportunity to remove friction from repetitive ...

SQLite has its place, but it’s not fit for every occasion. Learn how to set up install-free versions of MariaDB, PostgreSQL MongoDB, and Redis for your development needs.

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Now that we've unpacked some iconic tagline examples, let's take a second to savour what makes them so deliciously effective at sticking around. Have you ever heard those slogans that never seem to ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. SQLite is an incredibly lightweight and remarkably popular SQL-compliant database. In fact, it’s ...

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

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Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

Multiplication in Python may seem simple at first—just use the * operator—but it actually covers far more than just numbers. You can use * to multiply integers and floats, repeat strings and lists, or ...

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We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up to external ...