In this step-by-step Seaborn tutorial, you’ll learn how to use one of Python’s most convenient libraries for data visualization. For those who’ve tinkered with Matplotlib before, you may have wondered, “why does it take me 10 lines of code just to make a ... (more…)

Let's see our first design pattern in Python: the Game Loop Pattern! This pattern can give us many good ideas to refactor our game in a very effective way. (more…)

Python 3.8 was released in mid-October, but if you look at my recommendation for a base image for Docker it still talks about Python 3.7. And in fact, switching to Python 3.8 immediately can cause you problems. Wondering when to switch your application? H... (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…)

Supercomputing resources typically cost money, but the Open Science Grid (OSG) provides high-throughput computing to any researcher in the US for free. Briefly, OSG users can run jobs on servers owned by dozens of academic institutions, whenever those ser...