Reinforcement learning in 2025 is more practical than ever, with Python libraries evolving to support real-world simulations, robotics, and decision-making systems across industries. Modern RL ...

Which language has the best loops? See for yourself, with our side-by-side (loop-for-loop) Python vs. Kotlin showdown. Find more stories in this week’s report.

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

While we have the Python built-in function sum() which sums the elements of a sequence (provided the elements of the sequence are all of numeric type), it’s instructive to see how we can do this in a ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible. When you ...

Abstract: List comprehensions are a Pythonic functional construct allowing developers to express in a concise way loops to build and manipulate lists. Previous studies point to a gain in speed when ...

$ ./python -m timeit -r11 -unsec -s 'from a import data, msum' 'sum(data)' 500000 loops, best of 11: 963 nsec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -r11 -unsec -s 'from a import data, msum' 'msum(data)' ...

But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed—perhaps not as fast as Java or C, but fast enough for web ...

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