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Make Python scripts smarter with regex: 5 practical RE examples

If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into ...
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Python random.seed() Integer Sign Bug: Identical RNG Streams for Positive and Negative Seeds Exposed

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, the Python random.seed() function produces identical random number generator (RNG) streams when seeded with positive and negative integers of the same ...
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An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition

An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition is a free, open source textbook available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Originally developed for UVM’s CS 1210 ...
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random.vonmisesvariate() and random.lognormvariate() accept invalid parameters despite docs constraints

While reading the Python documentation for the random module, I noticed something that looks inconsistent between the documentation and the actual behavior of the code. Both functions run without any ...
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Using the seed

I mentioned earlier that the numbers generated and choices made by the random module aren’t truly random, they’re pseudo-random, but what does this mean? Computers compute. They can’t pluck a random ...
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Enhance augmentation objects with references to a random state.

Looking at the current code, to draw random samples augmentation objects are using the global random state in the random module. This is ideal for maximally random pipelines that are impacted by any ...