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8 Practical Uses for the Python os Module

os.path.join (folder, filename) ensures the path is correct for the system. On Windows, it uses backslashes (reports\summary.txt); on Linux and macOS it uses forward slashes (reports/summary.txt).

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

In 2002, Raskin, along with his son Aza and the rest of the development team, built a software implementation of his ...
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Conda-installed FAISS with MKL is ~300x slower than pip-installed FAISS with OpenBLAS on AMD Zen4

I encountered a severe performance discrepancy between FAISS installed via conda and pip. The same clustering task runs ~300x slower with the conda version (using MKL) compared to the pip version ...
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Modeling Molecularly Imprinted Nanoparticles with LNKD: A Resource Efficient Algorithm for Polymer Cross-Linking

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, ...
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Calling MCP server tools with nested object params from Realtime API agents

The OpenAI Realtime API flattens tool arguments incorrectly, ignoring the provided JSON schema for nested objects. This causes tool calls to fail because the arguments don't match the expected ...