taleinat

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by taleinat 11mo ago
The biggest thing PyPy adds is JIT compilation. This is precisely what the project to add JIT to CPython is working on these days. It's still early days for the project, but by 3.15 there's a good chance we'll see some really
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by taleinat 1y ago
That approach sometimes does work, but usually very poorly and often not at all. It can work very well when the higher-up is well informed and does have deep technical experience and understanding. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are great, well-k
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by taleinat 4y ago
> You can make meaningful statistical claims about this with just two subjects With just two subjects, there is a very high chance that the results of your testing are overly specific to those two subjects, and do not hold for most of th
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by taleinat 4y ago
I'm very skeptical of these results: The sample size is much too small! They started with only 64 individuals. Of those only ONE was found to be especially attractive to mosquitoes, and only TWO especially unattractive. They then used
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by taleinat 5y ago
For a specific doc fix, a PR is indeed the way to go. If it's not a simple fix, creating an issue on the tracker may also be called for. Doing so does help and is appreciated, even if it sometimes takes a long time to be addressed by a
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by taleinat 5y ago
(I'm a Python core dev, speaking for myself.) Python is almost entirely developed and maintained by volunteers. The increasing backlog of issues and PRs is recognized as a problem. Thanks to a generous donation, the PSF has recently be
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by taleinat 5y ago
(Python core dev here.) At least for the Python project, there are more than enough inherent "roadblocks" for new contributors to overcome. Work is being actively done to remove some of these, or at least make overcoming them easi
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by taleinat 5y ago
(Python core dev here.) Python is well into the process of transitioning from bugs.python.org to GitHub issues. See PEP 581[1] for the rationale. Ezio Melotti is leading the project, and one may follow the progress on the psf/gh-migrat
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by taleinat 7y ago
Author of fuzzysearch here. Most of these libraries focus on calculating distance metrics between pairs of strings, or finding the nearest match to a string among many candidates. On the other hand, fuzzysearch is used for finding near matc
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by taleinat 8y ago
Ah. You should likely use a different algorithmic approach. If you add contact details to your user info I'll be happy to get in touch and help.
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by taleinat 8y ago
Have you tried some existing Python libraries which support fuzzy searching, such as regex and fuzzysearch?
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by taleinat 8y ago
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