In this tutorial, we'll walk through building a simple Telegram Bot using Python. At first, our bot will simply echo back any message we send it, but then we'll extend it to add a database and persist information across chat sessions.

Xgboost is a gradient boosting library. It provides parallel boosting trees algorithm that can solve Machine Learning tasks. It is available in many languages, like: C++, Java, Python, R, Julia, Scala. In this post, I will show you how to get feature impo... (more…)

iTerm2 is a very powerful piece of software and includes a plugin system that allows you to write Python scripts that terminal programs can take advantage of. In this post, we're going to write two Python scripts for iTerm2: one to automatically switch to... (more…)

Make your functions return something meaningful, typed, and safe! - dry-python/returns... (more…)

As the internet and digital technologies continue to infiltrate our way of life, we are forced to consider how our concepts of identity and security are reflected in these spaces. Brian Warner joins me this week to discuss his work on privacy focused proj... (more…)