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Disinformation Is An Open Source Problem
The Oxford dictionary defines disinformation as “false information which is intended to mislead.” That simple definition seems to understate the problem, given the fact that ...
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How to Install ActivePython & Matplotlib for Finance Screencast
ActivePython on the ActiveState Platform now ships with Numpy, SciPy and matplotlib – three fundamental python packages for financial and scientific computing. With the recent ...
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Built for Speed: ActivePython, Intel® MKL and Mathematical Computing
Power your science, engineering and financial applications with ActivePython Business Edition. Number-crunching extremely large amounts of data in mathematical computing applications takes significant computing resources. ...
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Saving the world from economic collapse with Python?
Today we announced that ActivePython now includes NumPy,SciPy, and matplotlib in ActivePython Business, Enterprise, and OEM Editions. What does this mean for you as a ...
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Must-Have Python Packages for Finance
Update May 17, 2017: Python packages NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib are now optimized with Intel’s Math Kernel Library for better performance in the current release of ...
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Setting up IIS for ActivePerl
In the good old days, you could turn on IIS 5, install ActivePerl, and get a working integrated setup for your Windows systems right out ...
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Open Source and Adult Content with Perl and PHP – Oh My!
Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability. For example, keep ...
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Yet Another Book Review of Intellectual Property and Open Source
No, we aren’t rerunning blog posts during the summer. We published a review by Romuald Restout of this book last January. It’s worth reading, but ...
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Concurrency in Tcl: Talking Heads
This is the third and last article in the “Concurrency in Tcl” series. The previous postings introduced event handling and threading as possible solutions to ...
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Dynamic Language Developers Are Looking To Build Cloud-based Applications in Next Year
Last week, we announced the results of an informal survey of over 140 developers, architects and managers and got some good insights into how and ...
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Top 5 Software Tools For Getting the C-Suite Job Done
As the CEO of ActiveState, and similar to many others in the technology industry, I rely on my computer a lot. Of course, everyone uses ...
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“Must-Have” Python Packages for Finance Survey
Recently the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a proposal that, in addition to the English narratives, Asset-backed securities issuers also file a Python computer ...
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Python Crypto: State of the Art (Part 3)
In the previous article we looked at the two most interesting crypto toolkits. What else is out there? A lot. Cryptlib: Peter Gutmann’s cryptlib library ...
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