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“Bayesian estimation, particularly using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), is an increasingly relevant approach to statistical estimation. However, few statistical software packages implement MCMC samplers, and they are non-trivial to code by hand. pymc is a python package that implements source...

“this script generates randomized super mario bros level-like images using python and a markov chain. how to run: ./markovio.py see the output example files if you're just curious what the results look like. the input level is 5-2. i haven't source...

“Paranthetically, he and his cohort in crime, Bill Punch, will be giving a talk about using Python as the intro CS programming language at PyCon '09. They have some interesting stats on the effects of a mixed Python-C++ curriculum vs source...

“Reading Jeff Atwood’s post The Problem of the Unfinished Game, reminded me of a similar problem. The Monty Hall Problem is a well known probability puzzle that has tricked many people. In fact, if you are not familiar with it source...

“In an old post I wrote about a metaheuristic: particle swarm optimization (PSO). It was the simplest code to demonstrate what PSO looks like. Today I'm writing about genetic algorithm, another metaheuristic inspired by evolution of species. You can read source...

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“Novice Air Ladder - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  1         Joe D'Plumber    45  91.833    94  2         Joe D'Plumber    36  87.500    91  3         Joe D'Plumber    18  87.167    92  4         Joe D'Plumber    source...

“Back in October I started playing with Amazon’s elastic compute cloud.  My basic goal was to do some distributed computing with Python.  Thanks to Amazon’s documentation and helpful writeups by some early adopters, I was able to get my environment source...

“The amount of free, interesting, and useful data is growing explosively. Luckily, computer are getting cheaper as we speak, they are all connected with a robust communication infrastructure, and software for analyzing data is better than ever. That’s why everyone source...

“I set out this term to teach a CS class in the way I would have wanted it taught when I was an undergrad. The class was CSE 491: Introduction to Database Backed Web Development, the place was Michigan State source...

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“I wish I could find a dedicated feed for Computerworld’s “A to Z of Programming Languages” series — I’d subscribe, they’re great reading. (My second wish is for online magazines to find a better way of generating revenue than all source...

“Sean Gillies just wrote a great post on the use of Python decorators to help you write prettier code. he didn’t quite go into what decorators are underneath though, which is something I think that it’s important to realize to source...

“I'm a huge fan of the Django Project (the popular python web framework), and the idea behind OpenID. So I figured it should be as easy as pie to use OpenID in a Django project and went to trie that. source...