Natural language processing, or NLP for short, is best described as “AI for speech and text.” The magic behind voice commands, speech and text translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, and ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

At first, string processing might seem very hard to optimize. If you’re looking for a newline in some text, you have to check every character in the string against every type of newline, right?