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Notepad++ has no business being this useful with these 6 plugins

A 6MB editor quietly replacing tools that cost ten times more.

The Python Hunt sheds light on Florida Man and tourists alike

Not all oddballs are harmless fun in Xander Robin’s immersive, Floridian subcultural documentary The Python Hunt.

This ‘anti-goal’ prompt trick keeps ChatGPT from going rogue

A simple prompt structure using XML tags can stop ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini from doing things you never asked for.
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Simulated Annealing Optimization Using C# or Python

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...