So of all the Web Toys, the only one that seems to have staying power so far is the trivial wrapper around espeak Say What. Something about having a robotic voice parrot back whatever you type is really exciting for kids.

So this morning I realized I never actually got the PyOpenGL 3.1.1 release process kicked off. Did a bit of cleanup and testing and booted the first alpha out the door. This is basically just a bug-fix release, though it has some more extensions wrapped/available, as it uses an updated Khronos xml ...

So there's a big flamey thread over on python-list about the Python 3.x type-annotation. Thing is, I can't say the annotations seem all *that* important to the behaviour (static type checking): Consider this Python 2.7 decorator-set:

def _func_annotation_for(func):
    """Retrieve the function annotation for a given function or create it"""
    current ...

So a while ago I purchased an Acer H276HL monitor to replace an old Asus monitor that had developed some weird behaviour where it would get stuck in a strange mode, then just decided not to turn on again. This morning when I got home from the cafe I discovered that new monitor in a ...

I downloaded the TEDLIUM speech corpus last night, and this afternoon I poked around in it and said grr. It uses a NIST Sphere format which is basically a plain-text header followed by encoded samples... it's a WAV file, but with far fewer useful tools. Oh well, thinks I, I'll just transcode the ...

I continued my long reading in Neural Networks today. I'm now setup with Theano, and working through the DeepLearning.net tutorials... but wow, I was not prepared for the (lack of) speed. Hours and hours to train a network (I don't have an nVidia GPU, so everything is being done on the CPU ...

I'm finally sitting down and looking at how to implement Neural Networks (LeNet) in Python (much of the motivation coming from Anatoly's comment). I've been very slowly following along with Learning from Data from CalTech (since October?!), but honestly that dragged on so long without getting to useful code that I found ...

So I've spent the afternoon going through my backlog of emails regarding PyOpenGL issues. That takes far longer than it should, as most of the time is really spent in reproducing/verifying problems rather than actually addressing issues. So far I think I've addressed most of the items that can be addressed near-term ...

Been playing around a bit with web-sockets under Twisted. This time I didn't go with autobahn, as the last time I played with it I just wound up stuck on lots of stuff I didn't need. What I decided to play with is a Web Socket based server-controlled messaging daemon. It's *not ...

So we have a lot of Django-based code where we'd like the user to be able to download a (subset of) the Django database as a "config file", then upload that "config file" to some number of other machines (or the original one), potentially long after the database has been migrated. I've got ...