Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram

By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run……

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Loading Gravitational Wave Data in Python

This post is the first in a series of in-depth examples for analyzing gravitational wave data in Python, using the PyCBC package. There is also a notebook-version of this post, available here, in a repo of PyCBC examples. Motivation In order to analyze ob... (more…)

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I Don’t Like Python

The title is a bit of a lie. I think Python is a good, practical, language, and relatively easy to learn and to teach. Its vast collection of libraries let you slap together a program to do virtually anything you want. It doesn’t have the beauty of APL or... (more…)

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