Proverbs and Bumper-Sticker Computer Science
There's much to learn. The idea of digesting knowledge down to a pithy little proverb is interesting.
Some of it's new to me. Some of it's timeless.
more ...There's much to learn. The idea of digesting knowledge down to a pithy little proverb is interesting.
Some of it's new to me. Some of it's timeless.
more ...Seems silly at first.
It's mostly true. It's also incomplete.
For example, "no tuples in Java" ignores http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/package-summary.html.
It seems like the only interesting takeaway from the infographic is that Java …
more ...Years ago -- many years ago -- I self-published three books on Python. I also set up a Google Group, Building Skills Books, for a discussion area. For a while, I check my download logs carefully to see how the book was being received. Then I became a tech nomad, and commenced …
more ...We have three major tiers of configuration for applications. Within each tier, we have sub-tiers, larding on yet more complexity. The organization of the layers is a bit fungible, too. Making good choices can be rather complex because there are so many variations on the theme of "configuration". The desktop …
more ...New Kindle Edition of Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design.
It seems to work okay in my Kindle Readers.
I'm not sure it's really formatted completely appropriately. I'm not a book designer. But before I fuss around with font sizes, I think I need to spend some time on several more …
more ...Wound up here: "A Place to Hang Your Hat" and the #LABHR hash tag.
H/T to this post: "Building a Hat Rack."
This is a huge idea. I follow some folks from the Code For America group. The +Mark Headd Twitter feed (@mheadd) is particularly helpful for understanding this …
more ...New from Packt Publishing: Functional Python Programming. Also here on Amazon. The fun part is covering generator functions, iterators, and higher-order functions in some real depth. There's a lot of powerful programming techniques available. What's challenging is reconciling Python's approach to FP with languages that are purely functional like Haskell …
more ...The context is an ongoing question about optimization -- not my strong suit -- and the SciPy algorithms for this. See Scipy.optimization.anneal Problems for some additional confusion over simple things.
The new quote is this:
However, firing up Python, NumPy, SciPy and figuring out which solver to use is not …more ...
Read this: The Most Diabolical Python Antipattern. Now you've been told. You no longer have any excuses. [Link fixed.]
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