Paper: Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Secondbranchfree.org - by geofflangdale Daniel Lemire and I have spent some time this year working on a fast JSON parser. You can read about it in paper form at arXiv here and the repo is …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Retrieving function arguments while unwinding the stack · Nikhil's blognikhilism.com Ironically, the most common setup on production systems - x86-64 in release mode - is also the trickiest. I think I can say with reasonable certainty …
A few Recommendations for a Data Scientist who wants to get started in Recommender Systemsbbvadata.com As a Data Scientist, you are expected to be able to build all sort of data products, that may involve simple-yet highly valuable business trends …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo What I've Learned About Optimizing Pythongregoryszorc.com - Gregory Szorc I've used Python more than any other programming language in the past 4-5 years. Python is the lingua franca for Firefox's build, test, and CI …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo What happens when packages go bad?jakearchibald.com I built spritecow.com back in 2011, and I no longer actively maintain it. A few months ago, a user berated me for using a crypto currency miner on …
The deepest problem with deep learningmedium.com Some reflections on an accidental Twitterstorm, the future of AI and deep learning, and what happens when you confuse a schoolbus with a snow …
Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientistsspotify.com - by Chris Halpert Why we built a new open source Python data visualization library. Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in …
Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hardmorepypy.blogspot.com - Antonio Cuni cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask why a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo New Python app profiler uses Rust for speed and safetyinfoworld.com - Serdar Yegulalp A new sampling profiler tool for Python developers, Py-Spy, gathers statistics about running Python programs without needing to instrument the code …
An awesome new Python profiler: py-spy!jvns.ca The other day I learned that Ben Frederickson has written an awesome new Python profiler called py-spy!It takes a similar approach to profiling as …
Py-Spy: A sampling profiler for Python programs.github.com - benfred README.md Py-Spy is a sampling profiler for Python programs. It lets you visualize what your Python program is spending time on without restarting the …
Trump lies. That makes negotiating NAFTA impossiblecbc.ca - Neil Macdonald It's almost sad watching good journalists trying to report on this sewage backup of a negotiation in Washington. Because we are trained to think …
NLP's ImageNet moment has arrivedthegradient.pub - Sebastian Ruder Big changes are underway in the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP).The long reign of word vectors as NLP’s core representation technique has …
Are Vancouver's sky-high rents finally falling?cbc.ca - Mike Laanela First it was real estate sales numbers dropping. Then it was the prices. Now signs are emerging that Vancouver's sky-high rents could be trending …
AdamW and Super-convergence is now the fastest way to train neural netsfast.ai Written: 02 Jul 2018 by Sylvain Gugger and Jeremy Howard Note from Jeremy: Welcome to fast.ai’s first scholar-in-residence, Sylvain Gugger. What better …
Writing Python Extensions In Rust Using PyO3benfrederickson.com I've been writing some code in Rust recently, and I thought it would be cool if I could take some of this Rust code and provide it as a native …
Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization that the World Forgot (or: a Better Alternative to Integer Modulo)probablydance.com - Malte Skarupke I recently posted a blog post about a new hash table, and whenever I do something like that, I learn at least one new thing from my comments. In my …
Visualizing Matrix Factorization Using Self-Organizing Maps - Zillow AI Blogzillow.com Visualizing Matrix Factorization Using Self-Organizing Maps Posted by ondrejl on June 12, 2018 in Machine Learning, Research One of the core methods used …
Go code refactoring : the 23x performance huntmedium.com - Val Deleplace A few weeks ago, I read an article called “Good Code vs Bad Code in Golang” where the author guides us step-by-step through the refactoring of an …
In Vancouver, a Housing Frenzy That Even Owners Want to EndThe New York Times - By CONOR DOUGHERTYVANCOUVER, British Columbia — Between multimillion-dollar tear-downs, blocks full of backyard cottages and towering condominiums that are sold and resold several times before they are even built, there
Canada’s Dirty $20-Billion Pipeline Bailoutthetyee.ca - Andrew Nikiforuk Trans Mountain existing assets valued at $550 million in 2007. Finance Minister Bill Morneau has proposed sacrificing Canadian taxpayers to bail out …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Tim Rocktäschelrockt.github.io – Tim Rocktäschel, 30/04/2018 – updated 02/05/2018 When talking to colleagues I realized that not everyone knows about einsum, my favorite function for …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blogvorpus.org - Posted by Nathaniel J. Smith Every concurrency API needs a way to run code concurrently. Here's some examples of what that looks like using different APIs: There are lots of …
Where Do The World's Software Developers Live?benfrederickson.com I've been digging into GitHub data recently, and I thought it would be fun to use that data to figure out exactly where the world's software …
Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated BuildingsThe Atlantic - Paul CooperDecadence, awe, and jealousy inspired a strange 18th-century architectural trend. If you walk through Belvedere House Gardens and Park in Westmeath, Ireland, a dramatic sight rises through the trees: enormous,
Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments systempragmaticengineer.com - Gergely Orosz I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality in the app - …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo You can't Rust thatpocoo.org The last year has been fun because I could build a lot for really nice stuff for Sentry in Rust and for the first time the development experience was …
Generating Flowers Using Simplex Noisebenfrederickson.com I'm working on a larger generative art project, and one thing that I need for this is an abstract representation of something that could conceivably …
The Machine Learning Reproducibility Crisispetewarden.com - Pete Warden Gosper Glider GunI was recently chatting to a friend whose startup’s machine learning models were so disorganized it was causing serious problems as …
Black-box optimization — Graduate Descenttimvieira.github.io - Posted by Tim Vieira Black-box optimization algorithms are a fantastic tool that everyone should be aware of. I frequently use black-box optimization algorithms for …
