I’m a child of 90s computing. In the meantime, I’ve become a hacker/programmer/software developer. I’ve stayed pretty much updated with the latest development trends. Even though I’m a startup funder, I keep coding, and I understand a wide variety of technologies (from frontend dev, to data engineering). But there’s one…

Everybody is (rightfully so) banging on Google for missing the train on LLMs. Which is fair, after all, Google was probably the largest “text-based” company in the world. …

EDIT/ERRATUM: I made the mistake of combining parse_dates with pyarrow dtype backend. When removed, pyarrow is A LOT faster (40X) reading the dataset. 15 secs (without pyarrow) vs 496ms with pyarrow as dtype backend and engine.

Notebooks.ai is shutting down on October 1st. We want to apologize to all our users, but we won’t be able to keep providing the service. If you’re a notebooks.ai user, you’ll have until October 1st to download all your files (Notebooks, data, etc). If you’re in education, let us know We’re planning on still providing support for people using Notebooks.ai for education. If that’s your case, please email us at team@notebooks.ai.

This is a summary of my PyCon 2020 tutorial. You can find the original video and the source code here: https://github.com/santiagobasulto/pycon-concurrency-tutorial-2020 This is a quick guide/tutorial on how to effectively write concurrent programs using Python. Concurrency in Python can be confusing. There are multiple modules (threading, _thread, multiprocessing, subprocess)…

I’ve finally nailed (what for now seems to be) the “perfect” Django dev setup. This can be useful for some of you as well. It’s heavily inspired by Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ one (Jacob is the creator of Django). My main objectives for a perfect Django setup are: Repeatability: all team members…

There are 3 companies that I absolutely love and admire: Zoom HQ, Slack and GitLab. It’s not because of their product, or their founding story, or anything else, but because they took the world completely by surprise. I remember very vividly having the same reaction when hearing about these companies…

COVID-19 has hit hard in the past couple of weeks and its impact has been notorious both from a sanitary perspective and an economic one. Plenty has been written about it, especially statistical reports on its exponential growth and the importance of “flattening the curve”. At RMOTR, we wanted to…

This blog provides a quick peek at the Data Scientist’s process as they search for an answer to any data-driven question that pops up. …