Python is one of the most popular languages in Data Science. It is a flexible scripting language that is easy to use and has a large amount of available statistical libraries. When we're doing statistical analysis in Python, we naturally need data accessi...

Python 3.6.0 came out day before yesterday, and it was like a Christmas present for many of us. But in the midst of all the celebration…...

A conversation with a coworker turned me on to the fact that a surprising range of operations in Python are atomic, even operations like dictionary … (more…)

One of my wastes of time is watching celebrity-based British game shows on YouTube. This started with Never Mind the Buzzzcocks, expanded to QI, and now covers a handful of shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.1 One of the puzzles in this show... (more…)

This post is a deep-dive into a game-theoretic security flaw in Bancor, a high-profile smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain. The full… (more…)