Python users who upgrade to recently released pyarrow 0.12 may find that their applications use significantly less memory when converting Arrow string data to pandas format. This article details some of what is going on under the hood, and why Python appl... (more…)
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“Python is about having the simplest, dumbest compiler imaginable.”
—Guido van Rossum, Masterminds of Programming... (more…)
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The classic British Broadcasting Company (BBC) sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus and the films built by Pythons including Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life may be required viewing for comedy nerds of ... (more…)
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Julia Silge recently wrote a blog post about co-occurances of words together with gendered pronouns. This made me dig up some old code that did the same, but... (more…)
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A "fold" is a fundamental primitive in defining operations on data structures;
it's particularly important in functional languages where recursion is the
default tool to express repetition. In this article I'll present how left and
right folds work and ho... (more…)
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