Archive for January, 2012

10 Jan

Book review: NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s guide

Packt publishing sent me a copy of NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s guide by Ivan Idris.

The book actually covers more than only numpy: it is a full introduction to numerical computing with Python. The table of contents is the following:

NumPy Quick Start
Beginning with NumPy Fundamentals
Get into Terms with Commonly Used Functions
Convenience Functions for Your Convenience
Working with Matrices [...]

Posted in computational science, python, scientific computing by: gael
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07 Jan

Joblib beta release: fast compressed persistence + Python 3

Joblib 0.6: better I/O and Python 3 support
Happy new year, every one. I have just released Joblib 0.6.0 beta. The highlights of the 0.6 release are a reworked enhanced pickler, and Python 3 support.
Many thanks go to the contributors to the 0.5.X series (Fabian Pedregosa, Yaroslav Halchenko, Kenneth C. Arnold, Alexandre Gramfort, Lars Buitinck, Bala [...]

Posted in programming, python, scientific computing, scikit-learn by: gael
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