S.Lott-Software Architect

Apple Books Pivot to Python A Guide for professionals and skilled beginners https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675   I...

Some background: FAERIE DUST™ , Obstinate Idiocy , Obstinate Idiocy, Expanded , and even Permutations, Combinations and Frustrations . I wan...

Real Question (somewhat abbreviated): "My algorithm performs badly, do I need asyncio?" Short answer: No. Long answer: Sigh. No. D...

When I talk about functional programming in Python, folks like to look for place where functional programming isn't appropriate. They la...

This isn't about details of pySpark. This is about the philosophy of testing when working with a large, complex framework, like pySpark,...

See https://towardsdatascience.com/building-generator-pipelines-in-python-8931535792ff   I'm delighted by this article.  I was shown onl...

I've been trying to help some folks who have a "search" algorithm that's slow.  They know it's slow -- that's pret...