What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

The canonical FuncAnimation example does not work in https://molab.marimo.io (nor in https://marimo.app for that matter) even though it works in plain old jupyter and even pyscript. mo.mpl.interactive ...

Hello Ars, may I have your input? I'm working on a project with python 2.7 and Raspberry Pi wherein I'm polling some sensors and upon determining which value is being received, logging the data and ...

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.animation as animation %matplotlib inline def updatefig(i): fig = plt.gcf() ax = plt.gca() ax.plot(i,i, "o") updatefig(10) # works plt.figure() # ...

In my last few articles, I looked at several different Python modules that are useful for doing computations. But, what tools are available to help you analyze the results from those computations?