Category: Programming
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The Need for Speed: Python, JIT, and a Bump in the Road
Python is pretty much the most popular programming language out there right now. It runs everything from basic web apps to crazy advanced AI systems. But despite all the love it gets, it has one really obvious flaw… it is notoriously slow. For a long time, the holy grail for the Python community has been…
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The Hard Part Moved
Why AI didn’t make programming easier, and what that means for anyone learning it now. I learned to program on a ZX Spectrum in the 80s, and an Amiga in the 90s, typing listings out of books and magazines, and getting them wrong in ways that could swallow an entire afternoon before I found the…
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My Programming Journey
A personal insight into my journey as a coder, entrepreneur and professor. Introduction My life has been full of technology. From the first moment I experienced a coin operated arcade, I was taken aback by the wonder and amazement of the progress we were making technologically. When I was born, in the late 1970s, there…
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