Dependencies are a nightmare for many people. Some even argue they are technical debt. Managing the list of the libraries of your software is a horrible experience. Updating them — automatically? — sounds like a delirium. Stick with me here as I am going…

In this article, I use a modified version of Q-learning to train a bot to play the card game Literature. Specifically, I use a neural net to approximate the Q-values.

Let’s get this money right

An introduction to running parallel tasks with Celery, plus how and why we built an API on top of Celery’s Canvas task primitives

Last updated on July 9, 2021. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use OpenCV to stream video from a webcam to a web browser/HTML page using Flask and Python. Ever have your car stolen? Mine was stolen over…

Looking for a concise but thorough explanation of what Python 3's self means? What __init__() in classes does? What Class Objects and Instance Objects are and how they're related? This 8 minute tutorial covers all of these topics and provides a succinct explanation…

A low-cost IoT Air Quality Monitor based on RaspberryPi 4

In this Django 2.x crash course we will build a polling app based off the one from the docs. We will look at apps, views, models, urls, the shell and more.

Code:
https://github.com/bradtraversy/pollster_django_crash

Gist With Commands:
https://gist.git…

This is the first of a series of posts on preparing for and understanding interviews at big tech companies, drawing from my experience…

Have you ever needed to mock out a third party service for use in a large testing environment? I recently did, and I used Starlette, a new async Python web framework, to do it. See what Starlette offers!

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

Way back in the late 1920s John Von Neumann established the main problem in game theory that has remained relevant still today: Players s1, s2, ..., sn are pl...

Celery helps you run code asynchronously or on a periodic schedule which are very common things you'd want to do in most web projects.

I’ve alluded to left-recursion as a stumbling block a few times, and it’s time to tackle it. The basic problem is that with a recursive…

The colors ended up a little wonky, but this is a quick look at using Perlin Noise to simulate elevation and create your own islands! If you wanted to expand...

This article describes how to use pandas to read in multiple Excel tabs and combine into a single dataframe.

Use SMOTE and the Python package, imbalanced-learn, to bring harmony to an imbalanced dataset.

How to write GraphQL compliant apis with Python