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Re:Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:03PM (#11333641)

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep544/ might be helpful

Re:Introduction to Literate Programming Using Org Mode on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:42PM (#11333543)

I also really like this video of his: https://youtu.be/dljNabciEGg

Balancing Privacy and Security in Network Analysis

Posted by aut_dan on Saturday March 05, 2016 @02:02PM
from the upenn.edu dept.

http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/balancing-privacy-and-security-network-analysis

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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? on Sunday February 14, 2016 @07:55PM (#11100862)

That report is over a year old, which for a 4 year old language is a very long time. The top comment in [1] is from a week ago and highlights why it is now mostly invalid.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070764

Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? on Sunday February 14, 2016 @07:50PM (#11100844)

You will have to reach a little deeper for machine learning methods not supported by Julia. XGBoost has a Julia interface and you can google Julia SVM for myriad of alternatives. Packages like Mocha and MXNet are a few deep learning alternatives. PyCall is also an easy solution for interfacing with Python for things such as pyspark. It also has some of the most convenient to use parallel / distributed computing tools for numerical computing.

Point being that even if Julia is not there to replace Python, there is still a strong case for using it as a way to augment Python workflow.