23 Jul
We are organizing a coding sprint in Paris on the scikit learn, machine learning in Python. The goal of this sprint is to set the API and the general coding guidelines of the scikit to be able to tackle many different statistical learning problems in a consistent framework.
This is why we would like to have [...]
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16 Jul
A signature pattern
There are many libraries around to specify what I call a ’signature’ for an object, in other words a list of attributes that define its parameter set. I have heavily used Enthought’s Traits library for this purpose, but the concept is fairly general and can be found eg in ORMs (Object Relational [...]
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13 Jul
Euroscipy 2010, the third European conference for the use of Python in science, is just over, and I think it was a great success.
Euroscipy in numbers
The attendance this year was huge: there was a grand total of 160 who came to EuroScipy, with 140 that came only to the tutorials, and 130 only the conference. [...]
Posted in python, science, scientific computing by: gael
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