There are several approaches for adding speech recognition capabilities to a Python application. In this article, I’d like to introduce a… (more…)

Lately Grumpy has received some attention on reddit. YouTube Engineering showed a blog plost (Grumpy) which apparently proved that grumpy scaled much better then CPython on a Fibonacci benchmark. I felt like repeating this microbenchmark with Python to ch...

Rust looks like an increasingly important part of the future of scientific programming. It's as fast as C++, as flexible as Python, and does packaging better than even R. It is also very difficult to learn, and demands a lot of cognitive investment. On ba... (more…)

Python dependency management is known to be bad. This post details how I set up my Python environment to be as hygienic as possible. (more…)

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes... (more…)