Python
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Explicit Currying in Python
Last week, I talked about currying a little bit, and I’ve been thinking about how one could do in languages…
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Eventually Correct: Async Testing With Tornado
Async frameworks like Tornado scramble our usual unittest strategies: how can you validate the outcome when you do not know…
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Python: matplotlib hangs and shows nothing (Mac OS X)
I’ve been playing around with some of the matplotlib demos recently and discovered that simply copying one of the examples…
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PyMongo And Key Order In Subdocuments
Or, "Why does my query work in the shell but not PyMongo?" Variations on this question account for a large…
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Python: Simplifying the creation of a stop word list with defaultdict
I’ve been playing around with topics models again and recently read a paper by David Mimno which suggested the following…
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Python: Checking any value in a list exists in a line of text
I’ve been doing some log file analysis to see what cypher queries were being run on a Neo4j instance and…
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Python/Neo4j: Finding interesting computer sciency people to follow on Twitter
At the beginning of this year I moved from Neo4j’s field team to dev team and since the code we…
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Python: Streaming/Appending to a file
I’ve been playing around with Twitter’s API (via the tweepy library) and due to the rate limiting it imposes I…
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Python: scikit-learn – Training a classifier with non numeric features
Following on from my previous posts on training a classifier to pick out the speaker in sentences of HIMYM transcripts…
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