I'm going to go over some C code that implements a bloom filter, and then I'm going to show you how you can make use of that data structure in Python code through the use of cffi. (more…)

A common applied statistics task involves building regression models to characterize non-linear relationships between variables. It is possible to fit such... (more…)

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My latest (and first!) post Why 'd = {}' is faster than 'd = dict()' sparkled a small debate in our group. In the article I found len(str(n)) to be ~37.64% faster than math.floor(math.log10(n) + 1). We all knew that len and str are super fast for what the... (more…)