To make a long story short, it’s almost easy, now that tracing is available on commodity hardware, especially with a small library to handle platform-specific setup. Here’s a graph of the empirical distribution functions for the number... (more…)

Symbolic computation deals with the computation of mathematical objects symbolically. This means that the mathematical objects are represented exactly, not approximately, and mathematical expressions with unevaluated variables are left in symbolic for... (more…)

Guido rejecting your awesome syntactic proposals? He's not in charge anymore. (This point has not aged well, has it?)... (more…)

Step-by-step Keras tutorial for how to build a convolutional neural network in Python. We'll train a classifier for MNIST that boasts over 99% accuracy.

IntroductionIn this post, I want to look at the biggest strengths and weaknesses of Python, with more emphasis on the weaknesses, just because these problems have been there for years now and some of the rough edges bleed a lot. The Good – Where Python Sh... (more…)