#57: Python performance from the inside-out at Intel
When you think about the performance of your software, there is nothing more low level and fundamental than how your code executes on the CPU itself. Many of us study and try to understand how to maximize performance at this low level. But few are in a position to define what happens at this level.
5 Mai 201656min
#56: Data Science from Scratch
You likely know that Python is one of the fastest growing languages for data science. This is a discipline that combines the scientific inquiry of hypotheses and tests, the mathematical intuition of probability and statistics, the AI foundations of machine learning, a fluency in big data processing, and the Python language itself. That is a very broad set of skills we need to be good data scientists and yet each one is deep and often hard to understand.
27 Apr 201651min
#55: How our engineering environments are killing diversity (and how we can fix it)
In the software field, we pride ourselves on fairness, openness and the fact that our workplaces are largely meritocracies. And compared to other environments, I would say this is certainly true. It's one of the reasons I love being a developer. And yet, if we look at programming jobs in Silicon Valley, you'll see that over 85% of them are filled by men and less than 15% women.
21 Apr 20161h 1min
#54: Enterprise Software with Python
How often have people asked what language / technology you work in and when you answered Python they got a little confused and asked, what can you actually build with Python? What type of apps? The implication being Python is just a notch above Bash scripts. That real things aren't built with Python but rather Java, C#, Objective-C and so on.
14 Apr 20161h 7min
#53: Python in Visual Studio
What's your favorite Python editor? That is one of the questions I always ask at the end of the episode. This week I want to shine a light on a fantastic answer to that question for Windows developers: Visual Studio.
6 Apr 201650min
#52: EVE Online: MMO game powered by Python
Have you ever played a massively multiplayer online game? My first experience with these types of games with text-based role playing games called MUDs back in the early 90's. Well, things have come a long way since then. Game such as Eve Online have hundreds of thousands of players exploring, trading, and battling within a universe of over 7,000 star systems. Gameplay in Eve Online consists of beautiful 3D space flight within a dynamic universe and many real world players.
27 Mar 201654min
#51: SigOpt: Optimizing Everything with Python
You've heard that machine intelligence is going to transform our lives any day now. This is usually presented in a way that is vague and non-descript.
21 Mar 201637min
#50: Web scraping at scale with Scrapy and ScrapingHub
What do you do when you are working with an amazing web application that, for whatever reason, doesn't have an API? One option is to say I wish that site had an API and give up. Or, you could use scrapy, an open source web scraping framework from Pablo Hoffman and [scrapinghub.com](scrapinghub.com) and create your own API!
15 Mar 201658min
