The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Pyt... (more…)

The metap package, and what meta-programming is and isn't. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that the August release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can  download the Python extension  from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. If y... (more…)

Today, for reasons outside the scope of this entry, I updated one of my very old little Python utilities to add some features and move it to Python 3 in the process. This program was so old it was using getopt, so as part of updating it I switched it over... (more…)

Course materials and notes for Stanford class CS231n: Deep Learning for Computer Vision. (more…)