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5 Easy Ways to Install Python on Windows
Learn how to install Python on Windows using the Python Install Manager, WinGet, uv, Miniconda, or the official Python installer, and choose the best setup for beginners and Python development. Installing Python used to mean visiting a website, downloading the correct installer, checking the right boxes, and making sure Python was added to PATH. Today, it is much easier. In many cases, you can simply open your terminal, type a single command, and Python is installed. That is now true across Windows, Linux, and macOS thanks to modern package managers and Python tools.
Building an End-to-End Data Science Portfolio Project
Most portfolios stop at a notebook. Take yours all the way. The projects that actually get people hired do something different. They start with a business problem and finish with a recommendation, and they show every stage in between. Showing every stage, from raw data to a deployed application, is the thing a resume cannot prove and a notebook cannot fake. To keep it concrete, we'll use one real project the whole way through: the DoorDash Delivery Duration Prediction data project. It's a free project, so you can follow along and build this yourself.
Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology–together with appropriate training–boosted the number of cases resolved by 6.3% with no obvious drop in the quality of judgements. With a backlog of 2.26 million cases and fewer than two judges per 100,000 people – compared to 22 in the EU and 8 in Brazil – Pakistan’s judiciary was in sore need of help.
Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits
Mistral is giving customers the option to route AI requests through servers in either Europe or the US, and selling priority queue access during peak traffic. Both come with a surcharge, and the regional routing doesn't cover all features or data. The article Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits appeared first on The Decoder.
Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance
Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that's said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor. In benchmarks, though, it gets crushed by the cheaper Deepseek V4 Flash. The move fits a pattern: Microsoft talks up open AI, then bakes worse proprietary models into its apps to protect margins. The article Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance appeared first on The Decoder.
Native computer use is missing, though. That means controlling desktop apps like GIMP or OpenOffice isn't possible yet. Appshots, Record & Replay, and voice commands for desktop apps also won't be available at launch, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. The Mac and Windows versions shipped in July. The Codex CLI and an IDE extension already worked on Linux before this release. The app mainly adds a visual interface for tracking multiple projects, files, and code changes. For terminal users, the CLI remains the more direct option. The app is available worldwide.
Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed
Nvidia is working on Nemotron 4, a new open-weight model designed to rival the world’s best freely available models. The article Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed appeared first on The Decoder.
Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices
Robert Mahari is Anthropic's first "Head of Claude for Legal," responsible for deploying and expanding the Claude AI model across the legal industry. The article Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices appeared first on The Decoder.
How to Place Vertiport Locations in Any City Using Geospatial Machine Learning
A reproducible Lagos case study with population data, transport access, and airspace constraints The post How to Place Vertiport Locations in Any City Using Geospatial Machine Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science.
And those workflows no longer need to be limited to text. In this post, we’ll build such a workflow with Gemma 4 and Ollama. We’ll place Gemma 4’s multimodal capability inside a larger process, where downstream steps can consume its structured output. I recently took a trip to Finland, and I took quite some photos during my journey. In this post, I’ll show you how I use the workflow to analyze them, and then show how the same workflow can power a small application. 1. The Multimodal Workflow There are two ideas associated with the term “multimodal workflow”. First, multimodal.