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"PyPI is growing fast. If this dangerous expansion not stopped, our advanced machine learning models predict that in only 8 years the number of packages will outnumber human beings."

This is one of the funniest things I've read all week.

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The WITNESS THIS INEVITABLE FUTURE button that slowly, then steadily started increasing the date on the graphs is executed very well. Truly hysterical, I laughed out loud.

Thank you, I’m glad you appreciate it. I spent way more time on it than I would like to admit. The original version actually did run a small model trained on the data in the browser to generate the predictions.

Maybe its forward thinking of the ML folk to create big data to train the models that will replace them

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