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.

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However, firing up Python, NumPy, SciPy and figuring out which solver to use is not …

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Three terms that seem to cause confusion: Idempotence, Hysteresis and Deterministic. The subject came up during my webcast on the Five Kinds of Python Functions. We can use all three terms to describe a function. Two of them are relevant to common design questions in software. The third is a …

There are times when a "micro framework" is actually useful. I wasn't easily convinced that this could be true. Big framework or die trying. Right? Maybe not so right. My primary example of a micro framework's value is a quick demo site to show how some API's are going to …

In the forthcoming Functional Python Programming (https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/functional-python-programming) I was pressured by one of the technical reviewers to create a better example of composite function creation with decorators.

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http://sophieclayton.github.io/2015-01-15-uw/novice/python/index.html A very nice tutorial. It's Focused on a specific problem. It covers the solution technology in some depth. I think the focus and depth features are important. It's often tempting to cover the technical features without really solving a problem. In …

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