Python articles

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  What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender?

  By Adi Robertson on May 10, 2013 03:34 pm + 56 comments

  How much can a handful of Python scripts reveal about our world? Neal Caren, an assistant professor Continue reading…

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  Thug mentality: How two dick jokes exploded into DDoS and death threats

  By Russell Brandom on March 21, 2013 06:46 pm + 940 comments

  Sunday afternoon, Adria Richards was sitting in a lecture hall at Python's PyCon conference when she Continue reading…

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  Using public tweets / a developer finds art / in hidden haikus

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 18, 2013 12:10 pm + 24 comments

  One developer has found the perfect way to take advantage of Twitter's new support for line breaks: Continue reading…

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  Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color

  By Amar Toor on January 15, 2013 05:09 am + 37 comments

  What can a film's color scheme say about its narrative? According to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Created Continue reading…

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  A 19th-century stock ticker gets new life as a USB printer

  By Adi Robertson on March 15, 2012 12:28 pm + 4 comments

  In the late 1800s, the Universal Stock Ticker above was one of thousands used to print out real-time Continue reading…

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  Take your Scrabble game to the next level by hacking the two letter word list

  By Laura June on December 14, 2011 10:48 am + 10 comments

  Any Scrabble player who has graduated beyond the lowest of levels quickly encounters the problem of Continue reading…