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dev.to > lfrichter > i-built-cat-guardian-for-my-seven-cats-287

I Built Cat Guardian for My Seven Cats 🐾

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (886+ words) This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition I live with seven cats: Kiara, Golia, Meias, Vaquinha, Tigrinha, Peluda, and Gamora. They all have different personalities, different appearances, and different routines. And, like many pet owners, there is…...

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dev.to > herbze > when-pandas-runs-out-of-ram-i-change-one-import-line-35k0

When pandas runs out of RAM, I change one import line

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (305+ words) The file is bigger than your RAM, pandas wants the whole thing in memory at once, and your laptop says no. The library is chDB. It's ClickHouse compiled as an in-process engine you pip install, basically the ClickHouse query engine…...

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dev.to > wandawwl > i-couldnt-grow-up-with-a-cat-so-i-made-a-django-package-to-fix-that-2ba0

I Couldn't Grow Up with a Cat, So I Made a Django Package to Fix That

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (27+ words) I always wanted a cat but never had one as a child. Decades later, I used Doubao API to merge my... Tagged with ai, programming, python, django....

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dev.to > paxfeline > pygame-snake-pt-5-1h2g

Pygame Snake, Pt. 5

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (268+ words) Our snake game only has one vital piece missing: food. Up until this point, there has been no randomness. Now that changes, so start by adding import random at the top of the file. Now, just above the while loop,…...

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dev.to > paxfeline > pygame-snake-pt-4-31pm

Pygame Snake, Pt. 4

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (363+ words) In Parts 1, 2, & 3 we have put together everything, it would seem, besides the actual game. But now we come to the point. The first set of changes we need to make involve the snake. Instead of a single dot variable, we'll…...

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dev.to > sentinelsafety > grooming-operates-over-time-heres-how-behavioral-detection-tracks-it-fb1

Grooming operates over time. Here's how behavioral detection tracks it.

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1085+ words) Every system designed to detect child grooming has the same problem: it's looking at the wrong unit of analysis. Grooming doesn't happen in a message. It happens across weeks of messages — a slow accumulation of trust, a gradual shift in…...

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dev.to > stat_phantom > a-cnn-grid-encoding-for-snake-ai-that-doubles-the-best-published-score-245p

A CNN Grid Encoding for Snake AI That DOUBLES! the Best Published Score

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1328+ words) A traditional Snake game grid has only 4 states each grid point can be in: empty, head, body, or apple. And for some reason every published Snake AI paper either throws away spatial information by condensing the game state into a…...

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dev.to > sachin_krrajput > outliers-the-art-of-deciding-whether-that-3000-kg-penguin-is-a-data-entry-error-or-an-actual-19bp

Outliers: The Art of Deciding Whether That 3,000 kg Penguin Is a Data Entry Error or an Actual Monster

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (853+ words) The One-Line Summary: Outliers are data points that don't fit the pattern. They're either precious insights, dangerous errors, or rare but real phenomena. Your job is to figure out which — and handle each accordingly. You're the new data analyst at…...

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dev.to > nazanin_ashrafi > installing-pandas-with-uv-on-windows-1nkj

Installing pandas with uv on windows

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (252+ words) Here's a quick overview to installing pandas on windows: We will follow these steps: Install uv (if you haven't already). Create a virtual environment using uv. Activate the virtual environment. Install pandas into the environment using uv. 1. Install uv (If…...

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dev.to > zyte > stop-writing-messy-spiders-the-professional-way-with-scrapy-poet-6og

Stop Writing Messy Spiders. The Professional Way with Scrapy-Poet

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (583+ words) If you were building a web app, you wouldn't cram your database queries and business logic into your API routes. That would be a maintenance nightmare. So why do we accept this in our Scrapy projects? We build massive, unwieldy…...