PyTexas: After Hours Party
This year's after hours party will take place Saturday September 26th at 6:30 PM at Blackwater Draw Brewing Co.See our map for the location details.Food and drink will be provided by the PyTexas...
View ArticleRoberto Alsina: FLOSS Decision Making in Action
If you are reading this there is a good chance you are involved somehow in open source development, or software development in general. One thing lots of people ask me when they know I...
View ArticleNikola: Nikola Environment Survey: Python 2.7/3.x usage
The Nikola developers want to analyze the environment used to run Nikola.If the results show that Python 2.7 is not popular, or that most users can easily switch to Python 3, we might deprecate Python...
View ArticlePodcast.__init__: Episode 23 - Hylang Core Developers
Visit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, and sign up for our mailing listSummaryWe got the chance to talk to some of the core developers of Hylang, which is a Lisp dialect that runs...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 299] Cory Benfield: You Don’t Care About...
Most programmers like to make their code more efficient. Whether it’s improving our algorithms, adopting new languages, or just cleaning out old code, we want to make our programs run faster and use...
View ArticleFilipe Saraiva: Cantor: new upcoming release scheduled to December
Backend selection dialog in CantorCantor, the scientific programming environment inspired in notebook view concept, is going to have a new release together with KDE Applications 15.12 in December.The...
View ArticleVasudev Ram: Swapping two variables without using a third, 1) generically and...
By Vasudev RamOne of the techniques taught in some beginners' programming courses, is how to swap the values of two variables, without using a third variable. It is sometimes given as an exercise to...
View Article"Fredrik Håård's Blaag": Slides and videos from Stockholm Automation Nights #1
Slides and videos from Stockholm Automation Nights #1I was honored to be given the oppurtunity to speak at the first instance of Stockholm Automation Nights last week, and hope to be able to attend...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: “Ship Data Science Products!” at PyConUK2015
PyConUK2015 is over, it was another year of happy Pythonistic hobbitness in Coventry. I spoke on shipping data science products on the new Science track (organised by Sarah):It was nice to hear some...
View ArticleJulien Tayon: Using python to visualize randomness
Heard of randomness?What is random: something that given a serie of chronological events (happening after one another) whatever long the time serie is, we cannot predict the future.Two kinds of events...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Coverage.py 4.0
After more than 20 months, coverage.py 4.0 is available. This version brings a number of significant changes:Plugin support for measuring non-Python files, such as Django templates.Support for...
View ArticleMike C. Fletcher: Neural Nets on the CPU Are (as Expected) Pointless
I finally got my OpenDeep Dataset implementation for the TEDLIUM dataset feeding into a basic generative RNN... and as expected, it's pointlessly slow. Expect to go, say, 100 epochs... and it's already...
View ArticlePyCon: Sign up today or Tuesday to be a Launch Day sponsor
The long months of summer are finally at an end — for those of us in northern climes — and this Wednesday, on the first day of Autumn, the new PyCon website for Portland 2016 will launch!The conference...
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Trey Hunner
This week we welcome Trey Hunner (@treyhunner) as our PyDev of the Week! Trey writes a programming blog which is worth your time checking out. He is quite active in his local Python community as well...
View ArticleJaime Buelta: All you need is cache
What is cache More than a formal definition, I think that the best way of thinking about cache is an result from an operation (data) that gets saved (cached) for future use. The cache value should be...
View ArticleInvent with Python: "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" online...
For the last few months I've been putting together an online course that follows my latest (and free) book, "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python". You can sign up for free (until October 12th) with...
View ArticleA. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Review of "Write Great Code, Volumes 1 and 2"
There's certainly a romance to the great unfinished work, the consequence of some unreasonable ambition.Recently in "Joe Gould’s Teeth: the long-lost story of the longest book ever written", Jill...
View ArticleSedimental - python: Python Community Intro
The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and solicited introductions. At first I was surprised, but I was quickly charmed by the response and...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #26 Deploying Python Web Applications (Updated)
So, you've build an amazing Python web app and now what? You want to put it online of course but that's a whole different skill set. You're in luck, because Matthew Makai is here to tell us all about...
View ArticleS. Lott: Python Tutor
Read This: http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/08/learning-programming-at-scale.htmlThe core visualization tool (pythontutor.com) can be helpful for many people. The shared environments seem like a cool...
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