We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)

Major and minor releases of pip also include changes listed within prior beta releases. (more…)

Last time we saw a geometric version of the algorithm to add points on elliptic curves. We went quite deep into the formal setting for it (projective space $latex \mathbb{P}^2$), and we spent a lot… (more…)

Programmers have figured out ways to help family and friends gain an edge in getting vaccine appointments, but they also realize not everybody has that advantage. (more…)

A few weeks ago, I heard an episode on my all time favorite podcast show Planet Money. In this episode, they look into an “obscure… (more…)