Discussion regarding the art and science of creating holes of low entropy, shifting them around,. And then filling them back up to operate some widget.

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Exact computation of sums and means. A while ago, I came across a mention of the Python math. Which sums a set of floating-point values. The result is a new paper of mine on Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators. How large vectors in R might be stored compactly.

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Updates from the product and engineering team at onefinestay. Nameko is a microservices framework which is the fabric of the onefinestay backend. To facilitate this we asked Armin Ronacher, author of some of our favourite Python libraries.

Blosc, an extremely fast, multi-threaded, meta-compressor library. What Makes Blosc Different? High performance compressor, optimized for binary. Achieving that will obviously depend on the dataset, but that is the.

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Zarr is a Python package providing an implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays. Create N-dimensional arrays with any NumPy dtype. Chunk arrays along any dimension. Compress chunks using the fast Blosc. Meta-compressor or alternatively using zlib, BZ2 or LZMA. Store arrays in memory, on disk, inside a Zip file, on S3, . Read an array concurrently from multiple threads or processes. Write to an array concurrently from multiple threads or processes.