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,…
Read MoreText will always be a major format for data and it will never be well-organized. According to Phil Karlton’s famous joke,…
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Read MoreMachine learning is often held out as a magical solution to hard problems that will absolve us mere humans from…
Read MoreData science, and numerical computing, in general, has a problem: the deep linear algebra libraries deal with pure numbers in…
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Read MoreIn the past couple of years we have seen some of the biggest security issues in open source, including Heartbleed,…
Read MoreFunctional programming is a discipline, not a language feature. It is supported by a wide variety of languages, although those…
Read MoreEinstein said that our physical theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. The same is true of…
Read MoreI’ve been talking a lot about Perl this summer but wanted to tackle one more topic that is very important…
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