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Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
techspot.zzzeek.org
Benchmarked argument that asyncio slows database-bound Python code down, because interpreter overhead — not database I/O — dominates typical CRUD work.
pythonhosted.org
Documentation for watchdog, a cross-platform Python library and shell tool that reacts to file system events such as directory changes.
docs.python.org
Standard library documentation for Python's multiprocessing module, which spawns processes to sidestep the GIL and offers queues, pipes, pools and shared memory.
python-oauth2.readthedocs.io
Documentation for python-oauth2, a framework for providing OAuth 2.0 authentication in Python applications.
developers.google.com
Google's reference on using OAuth 2.0 to authorise access to its APIs, with the flows for web, installed, server-side and limited-input applications.
themacro.com
Michael Seibel on treating PR like business development — generating actual news, building relationships with reporters, and timing an announcement.
www-nlp.stanford.edu
Stanford's GloVe project — an unsupervised algorithm deriving word vectors from co-occurrence statistics, with pre-trained vectors to download.
nltk.org
API documentation for NLTK's tagging package, which provides the classes and interfaces for part-of-speech tagging.
streamhacker.com
Walkthrough of training gensim's word2vec on NLTK corpora and querying the resulting embeddings for similarly-used words.
developers.lyst.com
How Lyst applied word2vec and GloVe to its fashion catalogue to surface semantic relations between garments, designers and fashion vocabulary.
techblog.netflix.com
Netflix on rebuilding its Zuul cloud gateway on Netty as an asynchronous non-blocking system, and how the measured gains differed from what they expected.
css-tricks.com
Tutorial on React Router — routes, nested routes, reusable layouts, Link navigation and hash versus browser history. Predates React Router 4.
research.google.com
Google's VLDB 2010 paper on Dremel, a scalable interactive ad-hoc query system for read-only nested data that scans trillion-row tables in seconds.
tylerneylon.com
Tour of the whole Lua language as one annotated script — variables, functions, tables, metatables, classes and modules.
a16z.com
Glossary of venture capital economics — limited partners, carried interest, the J-curve, clawbacks — and how a fund's returns get distributed.
