Science rests on replicability and reproducibility. Without it, we can’t separate useful insights about the world from artifacts arising due to chance, and even fraud and malpractice by researchers. There are other costs too: one study estimated the cost of … Read more
Recently, our team at Meteksan Defense is upgrading its development environment to use newer versions of many tools and programming languages. One of the more difficult transitions has been the upgrade of our C++11 code base to C++17 for our … Read more
Idly chatting with the search box doesn’t strike me as the most productive use of my time. Instant answers or whatever they’re called already produce direct answers plus they cite sources and provide links which is what everyone seems to … Read more
Here’s my horoscope for today: Things should improve for you as the day progresses, Taurus. You shouldn’t depend on something that may not pan out the way you want. As you can see, it’s useless, just like your team’s velocity … Read more
Introduction In this post, I will show some @decorators that may be useful for Data Scientists. It may also be useful to revisit previous Bytepawn posts on decorators: The ipython notebook is up on Github. @parallel Let’s assume I write … Read more
Someone asked me what my best conscious self-improvement decisions have been. Here’s a list, and why I think they helped: Lifting weights. It’s great exercise, it’s way more fun than running on a treadmill, and it makes me more attractive … Read more
(July 2013) For the TL;DR crowd: If your programs are sending and receiving data structures, you are probably using high-level encapsulations – e.g. XML or JSON. There are however far more optimal solutions in terms of memory, CPU and … Read more
GitHub – adrianscheff/useful-sed: Useful sed scripts & patterns. {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. … Read more
Reading a good book is a great joy. And recommending a good book is almost as enjoyable. I’ve long been fascinated by books on espionage, and this contributed in no small part to me eventually joining the Dutch intelligence world, … Read more
In some previous blog posts we described in details how one can generalize automatic differentiation to give automatically stability enhancements and all sorts of other niceties by incorporating graph transformations into code generation. However, one of the things which we … Read more