One of the many allures of Twitter is that you can tweet at your favorite celebrity and (maybe) get a response. Still though, tweeting isn’t quite as intimate as trading text messages. So we thought it’d be fun to use Markov Chains, Programmable SMS, and ... (more…)

introduction-python-csv - Introduction to using Python to process CSV files. (more…)

Here’s a brief introduction to each big data programming language, as well as some ideas about applications where one may be more suitable than the others.

lambdascript - A new pure functional language built on the top of Python...

What general tips do you have for golfing in Python? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Python (e.g. "remove comments"... (more…)