I work with data scientists. I am not a scientist.

This kind of thing on scikit learn is helpful for understanding what they're trying to do and how I can help.

The Windows and .NET watch column, February 1, was Python: arbitrarily interesting . For certain classes of "interesting" problems, where interesting is defined arbitrarily, Python is an easy way to tackle those interesting problems.

It picks out a few specific areas of IronPython application, which is good and bad. Good because …

Check out Binstock's January 15th column in Software Development Times, Integration Watch: The End of PERL?

Very compelling case, generally free of the kind of subjective rants that often characterize analysis of PERL's viability. I tell people to drop PERL all the time, but I don't often have as clear …

Thing 1 -- My son's album is out today. You can visit the Siva Noir site. You can buy from their site or iTunes. Samples are available on their MySpace page.

Thing 2 -- More updates on Python 3.0. The story is not on the SD Times web site yet, but …

Here's the article, "The New Focus Group: The Collective ".

The point is that simplistic Return on Investment misses the point. The point is that marketing models aren't simple linear relationships between promotional dollars and sales.

I was all excited about the value of innovation and the source of innovation .

The …

The SD Times article (Python 3.0 won't be compatible... ) was very helpful -- crisp, to the point, management-friendly coverage. [For some additional thoughts, see the Python 3.0 and Language Evolution question on Stackoverflow.]

This applied to what we're building at work. Here's the best part. When I started on …

Found this on a shelf in my office. The Apple 32 Developer's Handbook. It covers the Lisa 2, Lisa 2/5, Lisa 2/10 and the Macintosh. Apple described this family of machines as the SuperMicros.

It might be a collectable -- it's in pristine condition -- never used as a coaster …

The article by Joe Wilcox in eWeek is actually really good -- except for the silly subtitle. See "No Enterprise Thaw for Vista ". It provides solid evidence that Vista is covered in FAIL. Not rumor or bias, but solid research on sales, adoption, conversion and the like.

The only flaw in …

See PC World, "Top 50 Tech Visionaries ."

I spent some quality time reading RFC's once upon a time. It was the mid '90's and a client had a desktop application that depended on embedded FTP client that submitted batch jobs to a mainframe.

[Note. It was the 90's. Desktop computing …

See the Electric Skateboard in XKCD. "You don't realize how much time you were spending on the boring parts until you don't have to do them anymore."

A helpful answer to "Why is Python so cool?" Fewer Boring Parts.