Reindert-Jan Ekker

Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers We improve the lives of professional developers. We create timely, practical books on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you learn and practice your craft, and accelerate your career. Come learn ...

The @pragprog.com folks are having their annual Black Friday sale. 40% off with coupon code turkeysale2024 at checkout.
(They distribute many of my self-published books, too, so you could get a Rothman Library!)

21.11.2024 19:56 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Python Protocols: Leveraging Structural Subtyping In this tutorial, you'll learn about Python's protocols and how they can help you get the most out of using Python's type hint system and static type checkers:

🐍📰 Python Protocols: Leveraging Structural Subtyping

#python

21.11.2024 16:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

👋

21.11.2024 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recently I gave a try at uv. I couldn't believe how fast it is! ⚡

21.11.2024 15:33 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Difference between OrdinalEncoder and LabelEncoder I was going through the official documentation of scikit-learn learn after going through a book on ML and came across the following thing: In the Documentation it is given about sklearn.preprocess...

When working with categorical data I use LabelEncoder for a single column at a time. TIL there's about OrdinalEncoder for multi dimensional data. You use one for your label (duh) and the other one for your features. #python #ml #machinelearning #til datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/39...

21.11.2024 14:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

20.11.2024 06:08 — 👍 459    🔁 113    💬 23    📌 16

Hey everyone! I made a Python Communities, Events, and Conferences Starter Pack. Follow these groups to know what’s happening in the Python Event Space! Also, if you want your event/group added comment! go.bsky.app/4QPcAQo

20.11.2024 01:57 — 👍 32    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 1

I never realised you could use it in that way.. although I wonder if it's a good idea. Readability counts, after all

18.11.2024 09:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

GitHub - trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday: Awesome deals on Black Friday: Apps, SaaS, Books, Courses, etc. Awesome deals on Black Friday: Apps, SaaS, Books, Courses, etc. - trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday

📦 trungdq88 / Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday
⭐ 4,434 (+71)

Awesome deals on Black Friday: Apps, SaaS, Books, Courses, etc.

16.11.2024 18:01 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Schiermonnikoog. If you see this, post a heavy photo from your gallery.

12.11.2024 12:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

uv

docs.astral.sh/uv/ is eating all of python packaging, and hopefully becomes the standard. Defacto or otherwise.

08.11.2024 20:43 — 👍 58    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 1

@jdhitsolutions.com please add me to the pluralsight starter pack

06.11.2024 22:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0