Concurrency and Distributed Computing with Python Today (#49) - PyCon 2009 - Chicago - A Conference for the Python Community - http://us.pycon.org/2009...
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
Poked around the internals of pydot and sorely wish I didn't. My eyes! The Python does nothing! Please let it work enough for my needs.
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
How and when should interactome-derived clusters be used to predict functional modules and protein function? -- Song and Singh, 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp551 -- Bioinformatics - http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi...
"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
@mndoci Have you heard any chatter about Fortress? Heard about it last night from Dave Edstrom at Sun.
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
A close buddy has been married for a year to the woman he dated for 6, and she moved out and they're in therapy. Do not want.