Numbers in Python come in all shapes and forms. The reason different kind of representations of numbers exist is because they all have different trade-offs. These trade-offs are often surprising! (more…)

Learn how to write and test a custom Python library to interact with an HTTP API.

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Let’s say you want to store a list of integers in Python: list_of_numbers = [] for i in range(1000000): list_of_numbers.append(i) Those numbers can easily fit in a 64-bit integer, so one would hope Python would store those million integers in no more than... (more…)

Recurrent neural networks can also be used as generative models. This means that in addition to being used for predictive models (making predictions) they can learn the sequences of a problem and then generate entirely new plausible sequences for the prob... (more…)