The first stop on our global tour of ABB’s Process Automation System Vision 10 years in the future is a copper mine in Chile. Here we meet Matias Perez. Already a seasoned member of the facility’s ...

In programming—and computer science in general—an expression is something which can be evaluated—that is, a syntactically valid combination of constants, variables, functions, and operators which ...

You have already written a “Hello, World!” program. As you can see, this isn’t very flexible—you provided the exact text you wanted to print. However, more often than not, we don’t know the values we ...

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a ...

Have you ever needed to split a list into neat parts without writing messy slices? Turns out Python has a smart trick up its sleeve—the * operator! I stumbled upon this while working on ...

Abstract: In general, an experienced operator or expert must deliver face-to-face industrial manual assembly (I-MA) training. There is a limited number and availability of expert trainers, making ...

…tor is used in an unparenthesized tuple expression on the RHS of an augmented assignment operator on Python 3.9 and newer. This addresses #8310.

Subclasses of np.ndarray seem to lead to memory leaks (array instances not getting garbage collected) when their augmented assignment operators are called. This is on NumPy 2.0.0rc2 on Debian Linux, ...