Ben Hoyt is an experienced software engineer at TripAdvisor in New York City. He and his wife and three daughters live just across the Hudson River in New Jersey. (more…)

Connie Xu is currently studying Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has sharpened her skills in Algorithms and Data Structures as well as Linear Algebra. She is interested in learning more about Natural Language Processing and Machine Lea... (more…)

Every time you create an instance of a class in Python, you are using up some memory–including overhead that might actually be larger than the data you care about. Create a million objects, and you have a million times the overhead. And that overhead can ... (more…)

I was recently asked this question by a new subscriber: Why are a lot of tools for pen testing are written in Python? While my knowledge in that area is pathetic, I would assume that the speed of e… (more…)

Nothing shouts culture more than visiting relatives during Chinese New Year. From celebrations and customs to decorations and food (it’s… (more…)