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Four short links: 25 September 2009

Diesel: A Case Study In That Thing I Just Said -- a new asynchronous I/O library in Python, which earned this fabulous review from Glyph Lefkowitz who wrote the granddaddy of all asynch libraries in Python, Twisted. Again, I don't want to dump on Diesel here; for what it is, i.e. an experiment in how to idiomatically structure asynchronous...

PyMOTW: resource - System resource management

The functions in Python's resource module help you probe the current resources consumed by a process, and place limits on them to control how much load your program places on a system.

PyMOTW: fractions - Rational Numbers

Python's Fraction class implements numerical operations for rational numbers.

PyMOTW: decimal - Fixed and floating point math

The decimal module implements fixed and floating point arithmetic using the model familiar to most people, rather than the floating point representation implemented by most computer hardware.

Four short links: 28 August 2009

What The Future's All About (Webstock Words) -- Bruce Sterling on the future. We’re not going to get a future Cloud World as somehow opposed to a future Augmented Reality World. It can’t happen. The ideas can be clearly distinguished, but ideas about technology, labels for technology, predictions and suppositions about technology, they don’t map onto actual real-world technology....

PyMOTW: dis - Python Bytecode Disassembly

The dis module converts code objects to a human-readable representation of the bytecodes for analysis.

Four short links: 12 August 2009

Improving Health Care -- Adam Bosworth's speech to the Aspen Health Forum. It starts strong and just gets better: There is a lot of talk about improving health care. And there is a lot to improve. Inadequate Evidence: We don’t know enough about what works. We should require sharing of population statistics across practices and hospitals in order to...

Four short links: 11 August 2009

The Slowing Growth of Wikipedia and More Details of Changing Editor Resistance -- researchers at PARC analysed Wikipedia and found the number of new articles and number of new editors have flattened off, and more edits from first-time contributors are being reverted. This is a writeup in their blog, with the numbers and charts. It's interesting that coverage in...

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