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gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of the libevent event loop.

As a beginning graduate student in the social sciences, what sort of software should you use to
do your work? More importantly, what principles should guide your choices? This article offers
some answers. The short version is: write using a good text editor (there are several to choose
from); analyze quantitative data with R or Stata; minimize errors by storing your work in a simple
format (plain text is best) and documenting it properly. Keep your projects in a version control
system. Back everything up regularly and automatically. Don’t get bogged down by gadgets, utilities or other accoutrements: they are there to help you do your work, but often waste your time
by tempting you to tweak, update and generally futz with them. To help you get started, I provide
a short discussion of the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences, a drop-in set of useful defaults
designed to help you get started using Emacs (a powerful, free text-editor) for data analysis and
writing.

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TokuDB® v6.0 scales MySQL® and MariaDB® from GBs to TBs while improving insert and query speed, replication performance, compression, ... and online schema flexibility. ....

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.

Here at Sauce Labs, we recently celebrated the completion of a significant project to improve our service uptime and reliability, as we transitioned the last of our CouchDB databases to MySQL. We’d outgrown CouchDB, to the point that a majority of our unplanned downtime was due to CouchDB issues, so wrapping up this migration was an important milestone for us.

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

blog post on journalism and its future. some interesting ideas about how different stuff on the internet is replacing different parts of a traditional newspaper

Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs

This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engi-
neering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with
calculus, probability theory, and linear algebra as taught in a rst- or second-
year undergraduate course on mathematics for scientists and engineers.
Conventional courses on information theory cover not only the beauti-
ful theoretical ideas of Shannon, but also practical solutions to communica-
tion problems. This book goes further, bringing in Bayesian data modelling,
Monte Carlo methods, variational methods, clustering algorithms, and neural
networks.
Why unify information theory and machine learning? Because they are
two sides of the same coin. In the 1960s, a single eld, cybernetics, was
populated by information theorists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists,
all studying common problems. Information theory and machine learning still
belong together. Brains are the ultimate compression and communication
systems. And the state-of-the-art algorithms for both data compression and
error-correcting codes use the same tools as machine learning.

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Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system.

Guile is a library designed to help programmers create flexible applications. Using Guile in an application allows the application's functionality to be extended by users or other programmers with plug-ins, modules, or scripts. Guile provides what might be described as "practical software freedom," making it possible for users to customize an application to meet their needs without digging into the application's internals.

There is a long list of proven applications that employ extension languages. Successful and long-lived examples of Free Software projects that use Guile are TeXmacs, LilyPond, and GnuCash.

Lisp is the world’s greatest programming language—or so its proponents think. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Overall, the evolution of Lisp has been guided more by institutional rivalry, one-upsmanship, and the glee born of technical cleverness that is characteristic of the “hacker culture” than by sober assessments of technical requirements. Nevertheless this process has eventually produced both an industrialstrength programming language, messy but powerful, and a technically pure dialect,small but powerful, that is suitable for use by programming-language theoreticians.
We pick up where McCarthy’s paper in the first HOPL conference left off. We trace the development chronologically from the era of the PDP-6, through the heyday of Interlisp and MacLisp, past the ascension and decline of special purpose Lisp machines,to the present era of standardization activities. We then examine the technical evolution of a few representative language features, including both some notable successes and some notable failures, that illuminate design issues that distinguish Lisp from other programming languages. We also discuss the use of Lisp as a laboratory for designing other programming languages. We conclude with some reflections on the forces that have driven the evolution of Lisp.

Flixel is an open source game-making library that is completely free for personal or commercial use. Written entirely in Actionscript 3, and designed to be used with free development tools, Flixel is easy to learn, extend and customize.