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Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...
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What interns at Jane Street actually do, from 2016 to now

These two projects can sometimes be very different. One intern in Jane Street's 2016 blog had two very different projects: a ...

What changes in docx when upgrading Pandoc from 3.11 to 3.12.1—% specification for images now works, and heading bookmarks become hexadecimal names

The changelogs for Pandoc 3.12 (2026-09-27) and 3.12.1 (2026-10-07) list several changes for docx, including image % ...

Gemini billing tokens triple the context. SDK goes to fetch the rest

There is a symptom where long Gemini responses are cut off at 64K tokens. In v2.30.0, released on October 13, 2026, Google's ...

EMNLP 2026 | 大模型推理如何再快一步？SpecTr-GBV统一多草稿与块验证，加速推测解码

大语言模型的生成过程天然具有自回归特性，即模型基于已有上下文逐 token 预测并生成后续内容。随着模型规模不断增大，单步前向计算的开销也随之增加，使得自回归解码面临较高的推理延迟。推测解码（Speculative Decoding, ...