Spiral Dynamics Optimization with Python Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to implement a geometry-inspired optimization technique called spiral dynamics optimization (SDO), an ...

The Python programming language is a hit for data science and machine-learning projects on high-powered hardware, but one of its weaknesses is speed. Anaconda, a company that provides a leading ...

Python implementation Pyston aims to speed up the programming language’s code for web applications. Creator Kevin Modzelewski tells TechRepublic where the project is heading next. When Kevin ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

This course offers an introduction to mathematical nonlinear optimization with applications in data science. The theoretical foundation and the fundamental algorithms for nonlinear optimization are ...

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...