The conda package manager has, over the years, become an integral part of my workflow. I use it to manage project environments, and have built a bunch of very simple hacks around it that you can adopt too. I'd like to share them with... (read more)

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... (read more)

(777 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 statement,... (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... (read more)

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) that I need to... (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 graph. If you've... (read more)