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Thu 10 Mar 2022

Why Tensors? A Beginner's Perspective

I’ve been working through Leonard Susskind’s The Theoretical Minimum course, and one thing I’ve found interesting is the ubiquity of tensors - they seem to pop up everywhere in physics. I’ve been trying to build some intution behind what makes them so widely applicable, and I wanted to share my notes on this in the hopes that others might also find this useful. I’d also welcome any insights or corrections.

Source: Why Tensors? A Beginner's Perspective, an article by Faizan Muhammad.

Refactoring a Python Codebase with LibCST

A codemod is simply a script that refactors your source code automatically. The most basic codemod can be a “find & replace” script, but a more advanced codemod operates on the semantic structure of the code.

It takes some effort to write a codemod, but once you have it, you can find all instances of old patterns in the code and automatically update them to the new ones! This ensures we don’t have a mix of old and new patterns in the codebase, so old patterns won’t be propagated. On the off-chance an engineer commits code with an old pattern, you can simply run the codemod again to refactor those instances.

Source: Refactoring a Python Codebase with LibCST, an article by Adam Stepinski.