Chris Lasher

Jesse Noller's humor-speckled second talk from PyCon 2009 gives the state of concurrency and distributed computing in Python. - Chris Lasher

A clip from "Swing" by Tony Gatlif. Here you can see the true essence of Gypsy Jazz (Jazz Manouche). Music is a way of life for these communities--young and old take part. This song (also known as "Dark Eyes") is a Russian Waltz that's become the anthem of Gypsy Jazz. - Chris Lasher

An article by Fredrik Lundh referenced by Jesse Noller. The task is to process a large log file in chunks. This shows incremental improvements, from a straightforward, linear approach, to threading, to multi-processing (using an outmoded approach, since the multiprocessing module wasn't available at the time of writing.) - Chris Lasher

Python contributor Jesse Noller gives a humorous and informative thirty minute presentation on Python's multiprocessing module. He describes when to use multiprocessing (and more importantly, when not to) and how to use multiprocessing. Good talk. - Chris Lasher

[Found via Paul Buchheit] "The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls. " - Chris Lasher

Evaluates six different common clustering algorithms with interaction networks and annotations as inputs. - Chris Lasher

All about chicken. Or should I say, "Chicken chicken chicken." - Chris Lasher

"I was blown away by the wide variety of Python use for scientific work. It looks like Python (with extensions like numpy) is becoming a standard tool for many sciences that need to process large amounts of data, from neuroimaging to astronomy." - Chris Lasher

Fortress is a new language being developed at Sun and headed by Guy Steele. """ Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability. Fortress features include: * Implicit parallelism * Transactions * Flexible, space-aware, mathematical syntax * Static type-checking (but with type inference) * Definition of large parts of the language in its own libraries """ - Chris Lasher

A.J. Jacobs's article cited in his TED Talk. "This story is about something called Radical Honesty. It may change your life. (But honestly, we don't really care.)" - Chris Lasher

Writer A. J. Jacobs, famous for reading the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica, gives a fascinating, humorous (albeit not deprecatingly) account of an experiment of following all the rules of the Bible. His concluding remarks are very rewarding. Well worth the watch, regardless of your religion (or absence thereof). - Chris Lasher

That sucks. - imabonehead

[Found via Dave Edstrom of Sun Microsystems] - Chris Lasher

Contains a very comprehensive list of graph visualization tools and toolkits. - Chris Lasher