Re: machine learning forums

2018-08-05 Thread downtime
You might also try courses on Udemy and Udacity. I know Udemy is always having sales on courses for like $10.99. They have beginner/novice courses for all kinds of topics and in my experience, there are some pretty good ones. On 2018-08-05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:05:46 -0

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread MRAB
On 2018-08-06 00:28, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm tinkering with a module which scans video files. The MP4 parser has a `discard_data` parameter which tells certain parts of the parser to discard some of the scanned data, particularly the MDAT box parse because I don't normally want to blow the mac

Re: machine learning forums

2018-08-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:05:46 -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote: > I am quite new to Python. I am learning Python as I am interested in > machine learning. The issue is, I have not found any ML forum where > novices like me can get help. I have tried reddit and each of my posts > have gone unanswered.

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05Aug2018 23:55, eryk sun wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: It seems obvious to me that a method returning a memoryview of the mapped file would be very handy here: no data copies at all, and not even any I/O unless the data are accessed. But I see no such metho

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread eryk sun
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > It seems obvious to me that a method returning a memoryview of the mapped > file would be very handy here: no data copies at all, and not even any I/O > unless the data are accessed. But I see no such method in the documentation. mmap ob

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
I should add that I'm using CPython 3 on a Mac, happy to receive CPython 3 UNIX-specific advice. - Cameron On 06Aug2018 09:28, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm tinkering with a module which scans video files. The MP4 parser has a `discard_data` parameter which tells certain parts of the parser to d

why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
I'm tinkering with a module which scans video files. The MP4 parser has a `discard_data` parameter which tells certain parts of the parser to discard some of the scanned data, particularly the MDAT box parse because I don't normally want to blow the machine's RAM on a huge video stream - I'm nor

machine learning forums

2018-08-05 Thread Sharan Basappa
I am quite new to Python. I am learning Python as I am interested in machine learning. The issue is, I have not found any ML forum where novices like me can get help. I have tried reddit and each of my posts have gone unanswered. Looks like reddit forum prefers either abstract topics on ML or ve