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Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars (2015)
This has really been quite a journey for me lately. And regarding the frequently asked question “Why did you choose Python for Machine Learning?” I guess it…
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future
tl;dr; We are willing to commercially support CPython C API in PyPy, so if you want pypy to support library X, get in touch with me at fij...
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
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Having fun abusing the C language
I was looking through the book Expert C Programming again when I came upon their “light relief” section on The International Obfuscated C Code Competition . It’s a contest to write the most obscure code. That the language C has a competition where you write confusing code in it probably says something about the…
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Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please
Modern programming languages are full of violence, vulgar abbreviations, and naked imperatives. Bespoke is a statically typed alternative in which exceptions are regrettable circumstances, mutexes ...
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ClojureScript 101
While none of the ideas in core.async are new, understanding how to solve problems with CSP is simply not as well documented as using plain callbacks or Promises . My previous posts have mostly explored fairly sophisticated uses of core.async , this post instead takes the form of a very basic tutorial on using…
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Getting started with Rust by building a tiny Markdown compiler
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Functional Programming – How and Why
Let's start with an example. In Advent of Code 2022 day 1 we get groups of numbers as input like: 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 ...
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Stop making me memorize the borrow checker
I started learning Rust about 3 or 4 years ago. I am now knee-deep in several very complex Rust projects that keep slamming into the limitations of the Rust compiler. One of the most common and obnoxious problems is hitting a situation the borrow-checker can’t deal with and realizing that I need to completely…
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Hindley-Milner Type Inference (2012)
Robin Milner's type system with parametric polymorphism was a significant advance over the systems of Russell and Church. Arguably it is the ability to use type-variables that makes higher order logic a practical vehicle for proving non-trivial theorems. The Hindley-Milner algorithm is used to automatically infer…
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Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
This summer I’ve been interning at Pusher , and have been writing a lot of Go. It’s been a bit of a change coming from a Haskell background, so I decided to write up my thoughts now, at the end.
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The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
The functional programming analog of an object-oriented design pattern
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Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
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How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows
If you are a Rust developer you have most likely celebrated the news that the version 1.64 released on 22/09/2022 is 10-20% faster on…
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The long arrow operator in C++
Dr Ivan Čukić -- author of the 'Functional Programming in C++' book, KDE developer and Free/Libre Software enthusiast.
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Both true and false: a Zen moment with C
I ran into a really fun bug at work yesterday, where I discovered that my C program was branching down logically inconsistent code paths. After drinking another cup of coffee and firing up GDB I realized that somehow, a boolean variable in my code was simultaneously testing as both true and not true.
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Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures
concurrent.futures is well suited to Embarrassingly Parallel tasks. You could write concurrent code with a simple for loop.
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Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang
The first Go challenge is over. So by now, I can take my Erlang solution and write about how you would go around solving the challenge in…
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Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5
Cross compilation is one of Go’s headline features. I’ve written about it a few times , and others have taken this work and built better tooling around it.
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My Node.js is a bit Rusty
Replacing an internal Node.js module with a native Rust module made a x25 perf boost. Let’s understand why.
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The Metaprogrammer
There are some topics which, if posted onto a forum or news site, cause programmers to spew out more blather than all the rest put together. Such topics include:
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Java Pain
In 2014, it’s not OK if it’s hard for a developer to run a simple program from the command line.