This is mentioned during an exchange on Twitter with @brettcannon (which later spun into the Big Picture thread). I figure I should probably open a dedicated thread about this so more people know about it, and to summarise my ideas. The situation Python ... (more…)

An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust. Contribute to charliermarsh/ruff development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

Supercharge your Python with parts of Lisp and Haskell. - GitHub - Technologicat/unpythonic: Supercharge your Python with parts of Lisp and Haskell. (more…)

When using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification tasks, it’s common to apply several transformations to the images in order to augment the data and reduce overfitting. For example, images are often randomly cropped, mirrored, ... (more…)

A few days ago, well-known author and developer Zed Shaw wrote a blog post, “The Case Against Python 3.”   I have a huge amount of respect for Zed’s work, and his book (Learn Python the Hard Way) is one whose approach is similar to mine — so muc...