An introduction to applying basic Western music theory to the guitar using the Python programming language to derive chords and scales. (more…)

One of the most complicated concepts to wrap our heads around has to be recursion; to understand it well it always helps to have some sort of recursion visualization. In this essay, we build a super-simple yet effective visualizer for recursive functions ... (more…)

Python is my favourite language, concise, beautiful, and easy to use. Two days ago, I was very excited to promote the benefits of Python to my friends. (more…)

Summary: I learn best with toy code that I can play with. This tutorial teaches backpropagation via a very simple toy example, a short python implementation. (more…)

Brandon Rhodes Why does "top" show that your Python process uses 110 MB of virtual memory but has a resident set size of 9 MB? Does it consume more memory to... (more…)