Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"
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Exploring Python's Pandas, Memory Management, and Computing Resources in Software Engineering
The chapter explores pandas usage in Python for data science tasks and discusses the trade-offs with simpler solutions, reflecting on how memory management and efficiency have evolved in programming over the last 25 years. It also touches on the challenges of memory management in languages like C compared to Python, with personal insights shared on memory allocation in a natural language processing project.
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