Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...

Optimized apps and websites start with well-built code. The truth, however, is that you don't need to worry about performance in 90% of your code, and probably 100% for many scripts. It doesn't matter ...

Over the past few months, the use of the Python programming language has increased greatly, at least among my colleagues who do data science and machine learning. I suspect this increase is due in ...

With Python and NumPy getting lots of exposure lately, I'll show how to use those tools to build a simple feed-forward neural network. Over the past few months, the use of the Python programming ...