I’ve been thinking about writing this article for a bit, but have been most prompted by a post grandly titled “Async Python is not faster”. The post was rooted with some good motivations and observations, but also fell somewhat into a polarising mode of ... (more…)

I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. (more…)

The “with” statement in Python is regarded as an obscure feature by some. But when you peek behind the scenes of the underlying Context Manager protocol you’ll see there’s little “magic” involved. (more…)

Find out how to run FastAPI with PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy using asyncio. (more…)

Recurrent neural networks can also be used as generative models. This means that in addition to being used for predictive models (making predictions) they can learn the sequences of a problem and then generate entirely new plausible sequences for the prob... (more…)