If you want to break into the fraternity of coders — and get paid for that expertise — then you should strongly consider making Python one of your first programming priorities. Python is easy to learn ...

In our examination of the Python language so far we’ve looked at the basics, some of the advanced stuff and a few architectural elements. This week we’ll look at Python in practice. Back in the first ...

“Don’t spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you’ve never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work.” – Al Sweigart, author of Automate the ...

Google, Facebook, and Dropbox. How about we add Yahoo and IBM as well? We’ll even throw in NASA just to really put this over the top. That’s just a small selection of the technology and innovation ...

If old Python networking and web libraries aren't fast enough for you, these new additions break speed limits and unleash new possibilities Faster, simpler, more “Pythonic” — those are the rallying ...

Python 2.7.9, the latest bugfix release for the 2.x branch of the language, landed earlier today. In keeping with 2.x being in maintenance mode and the 3.x branch as the preference, this version adds ...

Our resident data scientist explains how to train neural networks with two popular variations of the back-propagation technique: batch and online. Training a neural network is the process of ...

Microsoft Research data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey explains what neural network Glorot initialization is and why it's the default technique for weight initialization. In this article I explain what ...