Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
Nature

Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software

Science is becoming increasingly computational. Experimental data must be logged, cleaned, checked and analysed. Data analysis often involves iterative trial and ...
InfoWorld

What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...
PNAS

Convergent motifs of early olfactory processing are recapitulated by layer-wise efficient coding

Animals from insects to rodents rely on smell as their primary means of sensing their environment. Strikingly, animals as different as ants and humans have convergently evolved similar sensory ...
GitHub

Awesome AI Coding Techniques

This resource organizes techniques for working with coding assistants by development stage (from requirements and planning through review and refactoring). The techniques draw from practitioners ...
University of Vermont

Incremental development

Incremental development is a process whereby we build our program incrementally—often in small steps or by components. This is a structured, step-by-step approach to writing software. This approach ...
C&EN

ProcessOptimizer, an Open-Source Python Package for Easy Optimization of Real-World Processes Using Bayesian Optimization: Showcase of Features and Example of Use

ProcessOptimizer is a Python package designed to provide easy access to advanced machine learning techniques, specifically Bayesian optimization using, e.g., Gaussian processes. Aimed at ...
eLife

MotorNet, a Python toolbox for controlling differentiable biomechanical effectors with artificial neural networks

This work will be of interest to the motor control community as well as neuroAI researchers interested in how bodies constrain neural circuit function. The authors present "MotorNet", a useful ...