Programming can do terrifyingly complex things just by repeating—A story about the Mandelbrot set and infinite loops

The incredibly mundane command of repetitionWhen you learn programming, the concept of "repetition" appears quite early on.In ...
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New Open-Source Python Framework Turns Prototype Finite Element Solvers into Reusable Simulations

Researchers have released bryne, an open-source Python framework built on DUNE-FEM that turns rapid finite element prototypes into reusable, metadata-rich and reproducible multiphysics simulations.
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New algorithm halves the cost of quaternion matrix multiplication

Researchers have released qmatmul, a Python package whose algorithm halves the floating-point multiplications needed for ...
Accounting Today

Thomson Reuters debuts new CoCounsel for tax, audit and accounting pros

Thomson Reuters announced the latest version of its CoCounsel for Tax, Audit, and Accounting, which sports agentic capacities ...
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BigQuery ObjectRef now GA: Build multimodal data platforms for conversational analytics entirely in SQL

BigQuery ObjectRef is now GA. Combine unstructured data with Gemini to build powerful multimodal analytics and conversational ...
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I rebuilt my most complicated Excel workbook in Python with an AI agent's help, and I'm not going back

Excel isn't useless here, either. Poking one number and watching everything move is instant, and Excel's own Python in Excel cells are handy for one-off analysis. Those =PY () cells still scatter the ...

NumPy 2.5 eig returns complex numbers even for real matrices—the release note's workaround loses the imaginary part

The NumPy 2.5.0 release notes state that the return values of eig and eigvals will always be complex, and that Generator.binomial may return different values even with the same seed. Version 2.5.0 was ...