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Today I learned about the DARPA network challenge and the power of referral systems.
This is a short article on how I quickly used APL to verify my combinatorics calculations.
Can you make the pyramid point the other way by moving only three coins?
Today I learned you can use pathlib
to read the contents of a file.
When you call a function in Python and give it some arguments... Are they passed by value? No! By reference? No! They're passed by assignment.
Today I learned how the rich comparison protocol and, in particular, how eq works behind the scenes.
Can you help these kids trick or treat their entire neighbourhood in this Halloween special?
How can two doctors operate two patients with only two pairs of latex gloves?!
Today I learned that Python 3.5+ supports the operator @
for matrix multiplication.
Today I learned that you can use emojis as variable names in Python if you use pythonji
.
Today I learned that the .join
method in Python is a two-pass algorithm, and that's why joining a list comprehension is faster than a generator expression.
This Pydon't will teach you how to use Python's conditional expressions.
This Pydon't will teach you how the basics of list comprehensions in Python.
Today I learned about an algorithm that Python uses to sort out inheritance.