Sometimes when dealing with probabilities, things don't always work out the way you might expect. My favorite example of this is the Monty Hall problem. The name comes from the game show Let's Make a ...

GPUmonty is a GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo radiative transfer code for simulating spectra from accreting black holes based on NVIDIA CUDA. It traces photon packets ("superphotons") through accretion ...

From simple timers and benchmarking modules to sophisticated stats-based frameworks, look to these tools for insight into the performance of your Python program. Every programming language has two ...

Want faster number-crunching in Python? You can speed up your existing Python code with the Numba JIT, often with only one instruction. Python is not the fastest language, but lack of speed hasn’t ...

There are many reasons that you might want to start Android development. Building an app that will make you rich and change the world is only one motivation; others include learning to code, building ...

At first glance, Python and Ruby appear to be very similar languages. Both are high-level, dynamic languages used for rapid development. Both are beautiful languages that, when written well, are ...

Soccer and sketch comedy are two of my favorite things in the whole wide world. But sketch comedy about soccer is notoriously hard to do well. Thankfully, the 11 sketches below, from both sides of the ...