The week ahead: 20251110

• [PEP] Python finally officially supports lazy imports!

• [Announcement] Arxiv now requires a paper to be accepted at a journal or conference with peer review as a prerequisite for the CS track.

• [GitHub] TOON - Token-Oriented Object Notation, less tokens than JSON.

• [Article] Dealmaking with OpenAI. Related news.

• [Blog] Inside Cursor: No weather talks. Individual-based hiring. Fuzz. Constructive friction. Raise the ceiling instead of lowering the floor. What we build as a function of how it feels to build it. Playbook for a defined & tangible product.

• [Paper] Beyond the 80/20 Rule. High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning.

• [Paper] Glyph. Rendering long texts into images and processing them with a VLM as a way to compresses textual input.

Have a great week!