Comparing pandas and SQL
This is to demonstrate the similarity between pandas and SQL. The same post as
Python code is available here
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Parallel computing in Python standard library
There are multiple ways to do parallel computing using only the standard
library in Python. There are vastly more way to do parallel processing and
multiprocessing if third-party
modules are used.
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Using pythonnet to interface CSharp library
Recently I encountered the issue of having to call some functions from an third-party library, which is available as .NET DLL only (is it called “assembly” in .NET jargon?). It doesn’t worth the effort to learn and write code in C# just to be able to use the library. So...
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Lamport et al (1982) The Byzantine Generals Problem
About fault tolerance in a distributed system. Using the metaphor of a number of Byzantine generals have to come to a consensus of action, while the communication may not be accurate. For example, the sender of a message may be a traitor such that the message may be different to...
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Tupaj et al (1996) Extracting Tabular Information From Text Files
A paper on how to identify and extract tables from scanned text documents. The
author describe the whole process as four phrases: (1) isolate potential table
areas, (2) OCR, (3) isolate the beginning and end of the tables, (4) isolate
table components, i.e., header, cells, footer.
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