For social contact, I'm generally following people on https://fosstodon.org/home. I'm https://fosstodon.org/@slott56.
Or @slott56@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@slott56> as they say in the Fediverse.
But I saw some stuff on Twitter that was disheartening.
more ...I thought Python🐍wasn't strongly typed.🤔 But this code …
See https://www.packtpub.com/product/functional-python-programming-third-edition/9781803232577
Much newness here.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675
I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title pages, the table of contents and …
As noted in Finished Moving: Lessons Learned link rot is real.
Links vanish.
I've got 23 ancient (2004 to 2006, ancient) posts with clearly broken links. These are easy to identify because the service vanished years ago.
The tricky part is figuring out of there's any content worth preserving. In …
more ...Moved everything from blogger.com to "here" (https://slott56.github.io).
What did I learn?
Back in the early '00's (up to …
Check out DZone's Coding zone: https://dzone.com/coding. Hover over the "Coding" drop-down menu.
Notice anything lacking?
I'll give you a hint: Python.
They have "Frameworks", "Java", "Javascript", "Languages" and "Tools".
The "Languages" seems to be general programming, and the posts include Java, JavaScript and numerous other languages.
Let's …
more ...https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675
I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title pages, the table of contents and stuff like that. The content hasn't changed. Yet. It's still an introduction to …
Some background: FAERIE DUST™, Obstinate Idiocy, Obstinate Idiocy, Expanded, and even Permutations, Combinations and Frustrations. I want to set up algorithm design as the diametric opposite of Obstinate Stupidity. To do that, let's look at Obstinate Stupidity.
The theme?
We did something wrong, and we don't want to fix it …more ...
Real Question (somewhat abbreviated): "My algorithm performs badly, do I need asyncio?"
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Sigh. No. Do you need a slap upside the head?
Here's how it plays out:
Q: "We figured that if we 'parallelize' it, then we can apply multiple cores, and it will run …
more ...When I talk about functional programming in Python, folks like to look for place where functional programming isn't appropriate. They latch onto finite-state automata (FSA) because "state" of an automata doesn't seem to fit with stateless objects used in functional programming.
This is a false dichotomy.
It's emphatically false in …
more ...The issue of permutations and combinations is sometimes funny.
Not funny weird. But, funny "haha."
I received an email with 100's of words and 10 attachments. (10. Really.) The subject was how best to enumerate 6! permutations of something or other. With a goal of comparing some optimization algorithm with …
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