Hi, I'm Naftali. I'm Co-Founder/CEO of SentiLink , which is why I'm not writing as much as I used to. In the past I've managed the data science team at Affirm , built tweet topic models at Twitter , and set up predictive modeling competitions at Kaggle . I think statistics , hacking , and rock climbing are awesome.
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For the past two months I've been spending half my time on Tauthon . Tauthon is a backwards-compatible Python interpreter that runs Python 2 code and C-extensions exactly as-is, while also allowing Python 2 programmers to use the most exciting new language features from Python 3. These new backported language features…
If you had asked me whether or not it was possible to get a 2x speedup for my LazySorted project by adding a single line of code, I would have told you "No way, substantial speedups can really only come from algorithm changes." But surprisingly, I was able to do so by adding a single line using the __builtin_prefetch…