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Wed 27 September 2017 howto code python

Writing code documentation is really important. More than anything else, documenting your code pushes you to use best practices, and organize your code in a logical way.

After a year of writing Python code for a living [1], I'm writing to share the documentation process that works best for me …

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Fri 22 September 2017 howto code python servers systems

I do a lot of coding at Stanford on my laptop. It's a wonderful machine, but it simply cannot handle huge amounts of number-crunching. Most research organizations provide computing clusters fully equipped with state-of-the-art software in order to help out folks like me.

Clusters are helpful not only when you …

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Thu 21 September 2017 howto code python

Python is great. Not only is it relatively easy to learn, but it is extremely robust when it comes to gathering, processing, and plotting data, thanks to free open-source libraries like numpy, matplotlib, and pandas. The power that you get from using Python is comparable to other software solutions, such …