Ripyr: Sampled Metrics on Datasets Using Python’s Asuncio
PythonToolsTools & LanguagesPythonposted by Will McGinnis December 13, 2017
Today I’d like to introduce a little python library I’ve toyed around with here and there for the past year or so, ripyr. Originally it was written just as an excuse to try out some newer features in modern python: asyncio and type hinting. The whole... Read more
Classifying segmented strokes as characters – Part 3 of an XKCD font saga
BlogDeep LearningPythonposted by Philip Elson June 15, 2017
In part two of my XKCD font saga I was able to separate strokes from the XKCD handwriting dataset into many smaller images. I also handled the easier cases of merging some of the strokes back together – I particularly focussed on “dotty” or “liney” type... Read more
Python as a way of thinking
BlogPythonPythonposted by Allen Downey May 21, 2017
This article contains supporting material for this blog post at Scientific American. The thesis of the post is that modern programming languages (like Python) are qualitatively different from the first generation (like FORTRAN and C), in ways that make them effective tools for teaching, learning, exploring, and... Read more