This article reviews some common options for parallelizing Python code including process-based parallelism, specialized libraries, ipython parallel, and Ray. (more…)

Many languages start running your program by calling a function of yours that must have a specific name. In C (and many C derived languages), this is just called main(); in Go, it's main.main() (the main() function in the main package). Python famously do... (more…)

A tool for editing version-control repositories and translating among different systems. Supports git, bzr, Subversion, darcs, and fossil directly, also hg, CVS, and RCS through plugins. (more…)

In this post, we are going to learn to play with an image using OpenCV and python and try to learn with existing tools like Haar cascades face detection and build youtube inspired face-detect - crop - blur. (more…)

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