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Python Decorators, Explained

Python Decorators, Explained

Decorators in Python are a very powerful albeit mind-bending and under-documented tool. They are useful for many things, including changing how a function is executed (e.g. for denoting that an API endpoint requires authentication) or to register a function as a handler (e.g. to register different parser functions

D/Tox - Will it cure you or kill you?

D/Tox - Will it cure you or kill you?

For this year's christmas project, I have worked on a little game idea — introducing D/Tox, a game that lets you figure out if you can tell if a molecule is good or bad for you. The game will randomly select 10 out of a set of 6486 molecules that

A bot that learns how you play rock-paper-scissors

A bot that learns how you play rock-paper-scissors

As a small project, I wrote a bot for learning player patterns when playing rock-paper-scissors using a first-order Markov chain. This is definitely not the first time someone has had this idea, but I still thought I would give it a go. My implementation simply models a combination of computer

The most popular random seeds

The most popular random seeds

When developing programs that rely on some sort of randomness, it is often a good idea to make the random number generator behave more deterministically. For example, you could have a procedurally generated game generate its content based on a random seed that could be exchanged by players to play