Nicholas Piël

There has already been written a lot on the C10K problem and it is known that the only viable option to handle LOTS of concurrent connections is to handle them asynchronously. This also shows that for massively concurrent problems, such as lots of parallel comet connections, the GIL in Python is a non-issue as we [...]

For my Msc thesis I have developed a system build in Python which does person recognition and have shown that it is possible to obtain a better recognition rate with this system than by using Google’s Picasa. I have put the source code online and will hereby announce that I will try my best to [...]

Now that the dust has somewhat settled after climategate, the consensus seems to be that it has been overblown. If you look at the timeline of events this isn’t surprising. Between the public appearance of the report and the first damning articles on the 20th there was less then a single day.  It is not that [...]