As part of our Information Retrieval project, we are tasked to build search engine on a specific domain. After some discussion, we decided to proceed on building search engine for HackerNews comments, which I think has not existed yet. The current search ... (more…)

What is a genetic algorithm? A genetic algorithm is a method to solve a problem inspired i... (more…)

Utilities for run-time type validation and multiple dispatch - erezsh/runtype... (more…)

Python conquered the third position in the TIOBE index last year, but its popularity is still rising. This month it has reached a new all time high at 11.28%. Since Java is approaching its all time low since 2001, Python and Java are getting pretty clos... (more…)

Let’s pry apart this slightly unintuitive Python dictionary expression to find out what’s going on in the uncharted depths of the Python interpreter.