I've now got my actual souvenir hard-copies of my two Packt books https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-object-oriented-python https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/python-secret-agents So far, so good. I've got one more title in the works. After that, I think I'll have to take a small break and do some …

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3255 I'm a pretty good public speaker. But I've avoided webcasting and podcasting because it's kind of daunting. In a smaller venue, the audience members are right there, and you can tell if you're not making sense. In a webcast, the feedback will be …

Old. But still interesting. Partial Function Application is not Currying It seems like hair-splitting. However, the distinction between bound variables and curried functions does have some practical implications. I'm looking closely at PyMonad and the built-in functools library. I'm finding some benefits in understanding functional programming and how to apply …

Let's talk small. When writing API's, it sometimes helps to have a small demo web site to show the API in a context that's easy to visualize. API's are sometimes abstract, and without an application to provide some context, it can be unclear why the path looks like that or …

Read this: http://quantlabs.net/blog/2014/09/here-is-why-i-gave-up-on-python-aka-dogs-breakfeast-of-a-so-called-programming-language/#sthash.Rp7pXObf.dpuf

Not sure what's going on here.

"Script I want to run" seemed clear. http://vispy.org/examples/basics/scene/surface_plot.html#sthash.kIzbd33O.dpuf

The rest seemed like ill-advised trips down numerous ratholes. In particular, anything that involved …

Let me start with a wow. PyCrypto is very nice. Let me emphasize the add-ons that go with PyCrypto. These are as valuable as the package itself. Here's the story. I was working with a Java-based AES encrypter that used the "PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1" key generator algorithm. This was part of a …

def s0( samples ):
    return len(samples) # sum(x**0 for x in samples …

A deep dive into probability and scipy: https://www.packtpub.com/building-probabilistic-graphical-models-with-python/book I have to admit up front that this book is out of my league. The Python is sensible to me. The subject matter -- graph models, learning and inference -- is above my pay grade.

This is (was?) an epic web site: http://projecteuler.net/about Currently, they're struggling with a security problem. http://forum.projecteuler.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3591 Years ago, I found the site and quickly reached Level 2 by solving a flood of easy problems. Recently, a recruiter strongly …