Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
research.googleblog.com
Google Research introduces the Transformer, a self-attention architecture that drops recurrence and convolution and beats both on machine translation and parsing.
fee.org
Argues that Bitcoin draws its value from the utility of its payment network rather than any commodity backing, and that this satisfies Mises' regression theorem.
consideratecode.com
Walks through six web security acronyms — CSRF, HTTPS, XSS, SOP, CORS and HSTS — and what each one means for a Django developer.
mql5.com
Describes the fractal-based "Chuvashov's Fork" forex pattern and implements it as an MQL4 Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4, with entry, stop-loss and trailing rules.
openleis.com
Search interface for looking up Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) codes in the global LEI system.
timescale.com
Product site for TimescaleDB, the extension that turns PostgreSQL into a time-series database, keeping full SQL over high-rate metric ingestion.
nicolas.kruchten.com
Introduces the pivottablejs module, which embeds the PivotTable.js drag-and-drop pivot table and chart interface in a Jupyter notebook over a pandas DataFrame.
docs.scipy.org
NumPy reference page on universal functions, the vectorised element-wise operations over ndarrays, and their broadcasting, type-casting and output rules.
py2neo.org
Documentation for py2neo, a Python client library and command-line toolkit for working with Neo4j; the project is now end of life.
cffi.readthedocs.io
Documentation for CFFI, the C Foreign Function Interface for Python, which calls C code from Python using C-like declarations copied from headers.
explain.depesz.com
Paste a PostgreSQL EXPLAIN plan and get it back as a readable annotated tree that highlights the costly nodes; plans can be shared or anonymised.
numba.pydata.org
Open-source JIT compiler that translates a subset of Python and NumPy code to machine code through decorators, with no separate compilation step.
pybind11.readthedocs.io
Documentation for pybind11, a header-only library that exposes C++ types to Python and back, mainly to create Python bindings for existing C++ code.
datausa.io
Public US government data assembled into automated visual profiles of places, industries, occupations, universities, degrees and products.
attrs.readthedocs.io
Documentation for attrs, the Python library that generates a class's dunder methods from its declared attributes so classes stay short and correct.
