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📅 Today’s Picks

Skip Freshly Released Packages Automatically with uv

Problem

Installing updated package versions is essential to benefit from new features and bug fixes.

However, freshly released versions can introduce bugs or incompatibilities before the community has time to catch them.

Solution

uv’s exclude-newer option lets you set a cooldown period to skip packages released within a specified timeframe.

To use it, add exclude-newer = "7 days" to pyproject.toml and customize the duration as needed.

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LangExtract: LLM-Powered Entity Extraction with One Example

Problem

Named entity recognition extracts entities like names, dates, and organizations from text.

But pre-trained NER models can fail on domain-specific text. They weren’t trained on medical terms, so “Metformin 500mg” gets labeled as “LAW” instead of “medication”.

Fixing this means retraining with thousands of labeled examples.

Solution

LangExtract is Google’s LLM-powered extraction library that skips retraining entirely. It works on any domain with just one example.

Plus, every extraction includes:

• Exact character positions for source verification
• Attribute grouping to link related entities
• Interactive visualizations to review results

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