Now located at https://github.com/JeffPaine/beautiful_idiomatic_python.
Github gists don't support Pull Requests or any notifications, which made it impossible for me to maintain this (surprisingly popular) gist with fixes, respond to comments and so on. In the interest of maintaining the quality of this resource for others, I've moved it to a proper repo. Cheers!
This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.
Highly recommended things!
This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.
A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★
| """ | |
| A bare bones examples of optimizing a black-box function (f) using | |
| Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), where the parameter distribution is a | |
| gaussian of fixed standard deviation. | |
| """ | |
| import numpy as np | |
| np.random.seed(0) | |
| # the function we want to optimize |
