Vasudev Ram's blog on software innovation, open-source and proprietary, worldwide. Python, D, Go, FreePascal, Unix, databases, open source. (more…)

🧿 Pupyl is a really fast image search library which you can index your own (millions of) images and find similar images in milliseconds. - policratus/pupyl... (more…)

SVG diagram creation from Python code - pinout provides an easy method to create pin-out diagrams for electronic hardware. (more…)

Grigore showed that Java generics are Turing complete by describing a reduction from Turing machines to Java subtyping. We apply Grigore's algorithm to Python type hints and deduce that they are Turing complete. In addition, we present an alternative redu... (more…)

Berlin has a massive undersupply of housing — a widespread phenomenon in western cities. Usually, this means that prices tend to increase. That’s what used to happen in Berlin too. Then, a couple of years ago, the city municipality passed a controversial ... (more…)