What does “|=” mean? (pipe equal operator)

|= reads the same way as +=. is the same as where | is the bit-wise OR operator. All operators are referenced here. A bit-wise operator is used because, as is frequent, those constants enable an int to carry flags. If you look at those constants, you’ll see that they’re in powers of two : So you can use bit-wise OR to … Read more

Should I use scipy.pi, numpy.pi, or math.pi?

So it doesn’t matter, they are all the same value. The only reason all three modules provide a pi value is so if you are using just one of the three modules, you can conveniently have access to pi without having to import another module. They’re not providing different values for pi.

sklearn error ValueError: Input contains NaN, infinity or a value too large for dtype(‘float64’)

This might happen inside scikit, and it depends on what you’re doing. I recommend reading the documentation for the functions you’re using. You might be using one which depends e.g. on your matrix being positive definite and not fulfilling that criteria. EDIT: How could I miss that: is obviously wrong. Right would be: and You … Read more

JQuery – $ is not defined

That error can only be caused by one of three things: Your JavaScript file is not being properly loaded into your page You have a botched version of jQuery. This could happen because someone edited the core file, or a plugin may have overwritten the $ variable. You have JavaScript running before the page is … Read more