tl:dr star is a python(ish) programming environment that lets you call Go library functions. click down to the repl if you'd just like to play around... (more…)

Constant-factor differences are frequently ignored when analyzing the complexity of algorithms and implementations, as they appear to be insignificant in practice In this paper, we demonstrate that this assumption can in fact have far more profound implic... (more…)

I really enjoyed Jean-Nicholas Hould’s article on Tidy Data in Python, which in turn is based on this paper on Tidy Data by Hadley Wickham…...

This week I raised my first pull-request to the CPython core project, which was declined :-( but as to not completely waste my time I’m… (more…)

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