I’ve been hearing positive things about NDC Oslo for quite some time. I enviously listened to my developer friends’ stories about the incredible talks, parties, swag, and of course, the endless food. So, you can imagine how happy I was to have a talk …
This year, I attended Big Data LDN for the first time as part of the JetBrains booth team, where we were representing the Datalore, DataSpell and DataGrip teams. Seeing as entry is free, it attracts a huge number of attendees. This year was the …
In-person conferences are finally getting back into full swing this year. Fortunately, four of the conferences I was accepted to speak at lined up back-to-back in late September. Even better, they were all in Europe! My first stop was PyCon UK in …
In our previous blog post we discussed how to implement the Minkowski distance formula in a couple of functions which relied heavily on for loops. On our full data, this lead to a processing time of over an hour. With some simple tricks in NumPy …
In the last blog post, we managed to shave a bit of time off our calculation of the Minkowski distance by using vector subtraction. Instead of calculating the difference between each pair of vectors elementwise using a loop, we were able to take …
