Implementing a Naive Bayes machine learning classifier in Python. Starting with a basic implementation, and then improving it. Libraries used: NumPy, Numba (and scikit-learn for comparison). (more…)

I have a bit of a love and hate relationship with bash. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and bash is my default "programming language". Sometimes I tell people that find, grep and xargs run their infrastructure, and they laugh and laugh until they r... (more…)

I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast – rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable command-line interface. Its majestic and wonderful efficiency. The depths of its man page, and the heights of its use-cases. (more…)

Python and Ruby are similar in some ways but are worlds apart in their approach to solving problems. (more…)

404. That’s an error. The requested URL /2017/12/python-364-is-now-available.html was not found on this server. That’s all we know. (more…)