Last week, I picked up Jeremy Kun's book, "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics". In it, I finally found an explanation for my frustrations when reading math papers:

What programmers would consider "sloppy" notation is one... (read more)

(775 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)

There's a quote by John Tukey that has been a recurrent theme at work.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

Continuing on the theme of quoting two... (read more)

Having used Black for quite a while now, I have a hunch that it will continue to surpass its current popularity amongst projects.

It's one thing to be opinionated about things that matter for a project, but don't matter personally. Like code... (read more)

It’s definitely not easy work; anybody trying to tell you that you can "just apply this model and just be done with it" is probably wrong.

Simple Models

Let me clarify: I agree that doing the first half of the... (read more)

I learned a new thing about dask yesterday: pre-scattering data properly!

Turns out, you can pre-scatter your data across worker nodes, and have them access that data later when submitting functions to the scheduler.

I recently just figured out how to get this working... and it's awesome! :D

Motivation

If I'm developing an analysis in the Jupyter notebook, and I have one semi-long-running function (e.g. takes dozens of seconds)... (read more)

Introduction

At work, I recently encountered a neat problem. I'd like to share it with you all.

One of my projects involves graphs; specifically, it involves taking individual graphs and turning them into one big... (read more)