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John Cook05/09/13
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Almost If and Only If

If you used the Perrin condition to test whether numbers less than a billion are prime, you would correctly identify all 50,847,534 primes as primes. But out of the 949,152,466 composite numbers, you would falsely report 17 of these as prime.

Arthur Charpentier05/08/13
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Data News: "Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know" and More

Arthur Charpentier's regular roundup of stats and data science-related links points us to algorithms every data scientist should know, a free ebook on probabilistic programming and Bayesian methods for coders, and much much more.

Eric Gregory05/08/13
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Dev of the Week: Zemian Deng

This week we're talking to Zemian Deng, a Java developer working for the Bank of New York Mellon.

Steven Lott05/08/13
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Legacy Code Preservation: The Bugs Are The Features

The extreme end of "paving the cowpaths" are people for whom the bug list is also the feature list. This is a very strange phenomenon, rarely seen, but still relevant to this review.

Juri Strumpflohner05/07/13
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Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2

I previously wrote about my Sublime Text setup. Well, Tuts+ has published a quite nice Sublime Text tutorial showing most of Sublime’s features. Regardless of whether you’re a Sublime Text enthusiast or not, you should definitely take a look at the tutorial.

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 7)

Run Ruby in-browser, see 2 views of a chessboard in Python, and find out if video codecs will be written in JavaScript in the future. Plus, take a look at Oculus Rift simulations and learn about Dropbox's first conference.

Chase Seibert05/06/13
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Happybase Connection Pooling

Wrote a simple connection pool for Happybase using socketpool...

Allen Coin05/06/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 6)

Today: The best usability testing strategy EVER!, Java EE7 is ready!, Eric Schmidt thinks the internet has already surpassed television, and a free high-quality computer science education.

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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API Usability: Think of the Humans!

We'll talk about common usability traps and the bugs we make or prevent consuming applications. Finally, we'll discuss approaches to API development that improve usability.

Kin Lane05/05/13
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A Civic Hacker Corps

I've always been told, "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Whine." This is a statement I've heard from hundreds of American citizens that I've encountered throughout my life, across every region of this great country. While I agree with the intent of this statement, I have to declare that it isn't enough!

Mikko Ohtamaa05/04/13
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Converting presentation slides to HTML blog post with images

Here is a Python script to convert a PDF to series of HTML tags with alt texts. It makes the presentation suitable embedded for a blog post and reading on a mobile device and such.

Eric Gregory05/04/13
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I Hear You Like Pull Requests

Konstantin Haase delves into adding automatic Pull Request testing to Travis CI, exploring why pull requests are so powerful.

Giuseppe Vettigli05/03/13
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A new RefCard from the GlowingPython!

This Refcard is a collection of code examples that introduces the reader to the principal Data Mining tasks using Python.

Kin Lane05/03/13
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Can't Wait Until Carmakers Harness APIs

In the tech space we use the term dashboard a lot. Now think about the dashboard in your car. How much control over this dashboard do you have? Just wait until Ford, GM, BMW, Volkswagen, Toyota and other carmakers get their footing with APIs. It will be a different game!

Shannon Behrens05/03/13
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"Await" in Python

In Guido van Rossum's PyCon 2013 keynote, he presents "a new, interoperable approach to asynchronous I/O that is being developed for inclusion in Python 3.4." Part of his proposal is a way to use "yield from" in a manner similar to await in C#. Let's just say, I'm super excited about it!