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Tom Radcliffe

Python vs C++ for Text Processing

Text will always be a major format for data and it will never be well-organized. According to Phil Karlton’s famous joke,…

The pursuit of speed is one of the few constants in computing, and it is driven by two things: ever-increasing…

Machine learning is often held out as a magical solution to hard problems that will absolve us mere humans from…

Data science, and numerical computing, in general, has a problem: the deep linear algebra libraries deal with pure numbers in…

Python and Ruby are among some of the most popular programming languages for developing websites, web-based apps, and web services….

Big Data is big these days, as more and more companies dig into their servers to find out what makes…

Software design is about representation: how do we represent the solution to a problem in code that can be executed…

Lua is not your average scripting language. It is small, fast, portable, and embeddable. These cornerstones of the language make…

In the past couple of years we have seen some of the biggest security issues in open source, including Heartbleed,…

Functional programming is a discipline, not a language feature. It is supported by a wide variety of languages, although those…

Einstein said that our physical theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. The same is true of…

I’ve been talking a lot about Perl this summer but wanted to tackle one more topic that is very important…