a python script to turn all Paul Graham essays to an e-book - abdullahMosibah/bibo... (more…)

A few minutes ago a friend sent me the following code, and told me its misbehaving: def foo(l=[]): l.append("hello!") print(l) foo() foo() Instead of printing ["hello"] twice, it printed ["hello", "hello"]. Any ideas why? what's going on? I'll... (more…)

Six examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements. (more…)

So yesterday Visual Studio 2017 was released. Big news. Lots of cool stuff. As I write this I am watching the live stream of the 2 days-long launch event. If yo... (more…)

Implementing a Naive Bayes machine learning classifier in Python. Starting with a basic implementation, and then improving it. Libraries used: NumPy, Numba (and scikit-learn for comparison). (more…)