“Don’t spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you’ve never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work.” – Al Sweigart, author of Automate the ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

So I got to work fairly quickly. Python was already installed on my Linux laptop. I added NumPy (think “numbers” and “Python” — a package for numerical/scientific computing in Python) plus ...

Microsoft Research data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey explains what neural network Glorot initialization is and why it's the default technique for weight initialization. In this article I explain what ...

Our resident data scientist explains how to train neural networks with two popular variations of the back-propagation technique: batch and online. Training a neural network is the process of ...

The next time you're streaming Netflix, you can thank popular programming language Python and the developers who use it for much of the experience. According to Python developers at Netflix, the ...