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Performance measurement is the process of collecting and understanding information regarding the performance of some code.

Of all the programming styles I have learned, dynamic programming is perhaps the most beautiful. It can take problems that, at first glance, look ugly and intractable, and solve the problem with clean, concise code. Where a simplistic algorithm might acc... (more…)

The favorite thing that I won was a cowboy hat autographed by the stars of a Mexican soap opera that I had never heard of. It really embodies the totally random outcome of these contests. (more…)

How to implement a FIFO queue data structure in Python using only built-in data types and classes from the standard library. (more…)