I’ve been thinking about writing this article for a bit, but have been most prompted by a post grandly titled “Async Python is not faster”. The post was rooted with some good motivations and observations, but also fell somewhat into a polarising mode of ... (more…)

We introduce Stanza, an open-source Python natural language processing toolkit supporting 66 human languages. Compared to existing widely used toolkits, Stanza features a language-agnostic fully neural pipeline for text analysis, including tokenization, m... (more…)

Summary: I learn best with toy code that I can play with. This tutorial teaches backpropagation via a very simple toy example, a short python implementation. (more…)

You run your program, and it crashes—it’s out of memory: If you’re lucky, you get a MemoryError exception. If you’re less lucky, you get a coredump. If you’re having a bad day, your computer locks up and you need to restart it. How do you figure out what ... (more…)

Designing Modules in Python is part of HashedIn’s training program for junior developers to get better at design. Today, we are making it available as a free ebook. (more…)