The (internet) age old battle between content creators and pirates is an ever escalating arms race. It doesn’t seem to matter how much DRM and encryption creators put on their content, the next day there will be a dozen illegal torrents available. There is no way...
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Cartoon or Photo? – Image detection with Python
This all started with me just wanting a fast way to sort through image folders and remove cartoon images. That lead me down a spiraling rabbit hole of possibility. From using OpenCV to do different types of detection, or even training a Machine Learning model from...
Continue reading...Interprocess Communications
Dealing with communications across programs, processes or even threads can be a real pain in the patella. Each situation usually calls for something slightly different and has to work with a limited set of options. On top of that, a lot of tutorials I see are people...
Continue reading...ThreadPools explained – In the deep end
Thread and Multiprocessing Pools are an underused feature of Python. In my opinion, they are the easiest way to dip your feet into concurrency, and yet still the method I use most often. They allow you to easily offload CPU or I/O bound tasks to a...
Continue reading...Reusables – Part 2: Wrappers
Spice up your code with wrappers! In Python, a wrapper, also known as a decorator, is simply encapsulating a function within other functions. @wrapper def my_func(a, b=2): print(b) @meta_decorator(foo=”bar”) def my_other_func(**kwargs): print(kwargs) In Reusables, all the wrappers take arguments, aka meta decorators, so you will at...
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