Writing loops is an essential part of programming, but writing elegant loops is not easy. For example, in an interview Linus showed a commonly used piece of code which delete an entry in a link list (we will discuss this example). The task was simple but the loop in the ... [Read more...]

Requests (https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests) is a popular http request handling package. Its code is supposed to be well written and pythonic. So I decided to learn from it and improve my Python programming. Here is something that I learned or re-learned. [Read more...]

Simple, access files with the same IO patterns but different languages (C++, Python) and see the difference. [Read more...]

I have had gas problem for quite a while. Usually, right after I have lunch, gas starts to accumulate in my belly. Then comes the fart. It was really annoying, especially when you sat in the front row of a class. Sometimes it was even painful as there are too ... [Read more...]

The goal is simple. During my research, I often need to run a lot of different workloads, plot the results and write some analysis text. My goal is to: find out parameters I used to generate the results. So I can answer questions “why I see an outlier in my ... [Read more...]