When O’Reilly first approached me about writing a book on Java performance tuning, I was unsure. Java performance, I thought—aren’t we done with that? Yes, I still work on performance of Java (and other) applications on a daily basis, but I...
Jython is the JVM implementation of the Python programming language. It is designed to run on the Java platform. Jython was created in 1997 by Jim Hugunin. It closely follows the standard Python implementation called CPython. Jython 2.7.0 was...
We show how to use "complementary priors" to eliminate the explaining-away effects that make inference difficult in densely connected belief nets that have many hidden layers. Using complementary priors, we derive a fast, greedy algorithm that can...