A rant on sacrificing performance for productivity. (more…)

Deep learning is applicable to a widening range of artificial intelligence problems, such as image classification, speech recognition, text classification, question answering, text-to-speech, and optical character recognition. It is the technology behind ... (more…)

Python 3.6.2 is now available.   Python 3.6.2 is the second maintenance release of Python 3.6, which was initially released in 2016-12 to gr... (more…)

My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. (more…)

Ben Hoyt is an experienced software engineer at TripAdvisor in New York City. He and his wife and three daughters live just across the Hudson River in New Jersey. (more…)