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    Aug 12
    [Project Update] @Project_Pythia Cook-off 2026 Recap Project Pythia’s annual Cookbook hackathon wrapped up June 15–18 at NCAR’s Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO. Participants spent the week building and expanding crowd-sourced geoscientific Python Cookbooks. Among the outcomes: the
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    Aug 10
    [Project Update] @Blosc2 Python-Blosc2 4.9.1 A hotfix for the Arrow interop work in 4.9.0. Dictionary-column Arrow export via CTable.iter_arrow_batches() was recomputing live row positions on every batch — now computed once per export call, yielding 6–14x faster export on 1M-row
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    Aug 8
    [Project Update ] @OptunaAutoML v5 release candidate coming in August Optuna v4.9 is the last in the v4 series. The team is preparing a v5 release candidate for early August, which will include a new method for calculating hyperparameter importance for conditional parameters —
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    Aug 7
    "We as scientists were never really there to just write code. We were there to solve problems. The code's always been a tax." Andy Terrel — NumFOCUS co-founder and NVIDIA engineer — thinks AI coding tools are finally lowering the overhead cost that's always stood between a
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    Aug 6
    [Project Update] @fenicsproject wins the 2026 EMS/ECMI Lanczos Prize The FEniCS Project team has been awarded the 2026 EMS/ECMI Lanczos Prize for Mathematical Software — recognized for their revolutionary contributions to the implementation of the finite element method. The
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