Chris Smith04/18/12
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A lot has happened in the last month or so, like PyCon 2012, so the PyPy Status Blog was a little behind in their update release. However, yesterday they released a list of some important updates and improvements for NumPy. In this post, we take a look at what's being implemented this time around, and also look into what's on the horizon for NumPy.
Chris Smith02/10/12
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PyPy 1.8 has arrived, and brings with it a number of bug fixes and performance and memory improvements over the previous release.
Ross Jernigan08/18/11
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The brilliant engineers and scientists over at Cyberdyne Systems IBM
introduced the "first computing core that combines digital 'neurons' and
on-chip 'synapses' in working silicon." The chip demonstrates "synaptic
plasticity", which...
Mitch Pronschinske11/30/10
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While Google originally intended to have Chrome OS-based netbooks ready by the holiday season, the manufacturers are now saying that we won't be seeing Chrome OS for consumers until 2011. Although Google might be able to spin up a beta or developer preview...
Mitch Pronschinske10/17/10
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With funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Intel, and Microsoft, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has undertaken a project to build a new parallel implementation of the Java language that is the first to guarantee deterministic...
Mitch Pronschinske06/01/10
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While the vast majority of Python developers currently use CPython, which is downloaded at python.org, another Python implementation written in Python - PyPy - is gaining support from developers. Some see PyPy as a better platform for Python's growth. ...
Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil Zone", Bray talked about his agreement with the Google philosophy as opposed to the Apple's...
