Making Pillow-SIMD, optimizing image processing in Python

Part 1 is dev-oriented. I talk about general optimizations that helped create the fastest image resize algorithm for x86 out there… Read more

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Over the past several years there's been a welcome trend in NLP projects to be broadly multi-lingual. However, even when many languages are supported, there's a few that tend to be left out. One of these is Japanese. Japanese is written without spaces, an... (more…)

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Unravelling `is` and `is not` in Python

As part of this blog series on Python's syntactic sugar, I said in the post on unary arithmetic operators that it might be the most boring post in this series. I think I was wrong. ๐Ÿ˜„ The operators is and is not are very short. The documentation for the op... (more…)

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