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“Wokery”, “safe word”, “forever chemical” and “swear box” have all been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update.The OED is updated quarterly with new words, senses and revisions to entries, to reflect changes in word usage and to include new terms relating to current events and trends. The December 2023 update, announced on Thursday, features new words related to technology, polluting chemicals, politics, literature and sex.“Wokery” and “wokeism”, disparaging nouns meaning “progressive or leftwing…

AI has made another assault on the English language. After taking the title of the Collins Dictionary word of the year, artificial intelligence this week assailed the Cambridge version. This time, the impact is more subtle — but deeper. The first example emerged from Cambridge’s word of the year for 2023: “hallucinate.” It’s an old word, but the award is due to a new meaning. In the latest versions of the Cambridge Dictionary, “hallucinate” has an extra definition: “When an artificial…

Image via Marvel Studios Not every filmmaker is as communicative as James Gunn. Following the release of your typical film, very few directors take up vigil on the web, combing through questions related to their release and answering them for curious fans. Yet this is exactly what Gunn has been up to over the last week, as a flood of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 related questions hit social media. He’s been particularly active on Twitter, where the celebrated director is taking the time to clue curious…

How to work with Nested Dictionary in Python? This article teaches you everything you need to know about Python Nested Dictionaries.Photo by Kelly Sikkema on UnsplashOne common data structure in Python is a nested dictionary, or a dictionary that can have other dictionaries as values for a given key. Beginners hate nested dictionaries because they require more time to work with and parse correctly, but it’s nothing you can’t manage with a bit of practice.New to Python? Learn basic Dictionaries First.Today you’ll learn…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article A MultiDict is a dictionary-like object that holds multiple values for the same key, making it a useful data structure for processing forms and query strings. It is a subclass of the Python built-in dictionary and behaves similarly. In some use cases, we may need to convert a MultiDict to a nested dictionary, where each key corresponds to a dictionary of values. In this article, we will discuss the steps required to convert a MultiDict to a nested…

You can never stop learning a language. Just when you think that you’ve mastered a grammar rule, you’ll come across several exceptions you never knew. There is always room to improve your vocabulary as well. After all, there exist many words that imply different meanings when used in different contexts.Thankfully, your smartphone, that’s on you almost all the time, can help you out if you ever come across such linguistic jargon. Whether you are looking to improve your vocabulary or learn a new language, a dictionary app…

A Wordle clone called Quordle has been acquired by dictionary Merriam-Webster. Many spin-offs have launched since Wordle went viral last year, including math variant Nerdle, and others including Absurdle and Dordle. READ MORE: Why ‘Wordle’ is all over your timeline Quordle asks users to solve four puzzles at once, and was purchased by Merriam-Webster approximately a year after The New York Times acquired Wordle. “I’m delighted to announce that Quordle was acquired by @MerriamWebster,” the game’s creator, Freddie Meyer, …

We know about Python dictionaries in a data structure in Python which holds data in the form of key: value pairs. In this article, we will discuss the Bidirectional Hash table or Two-way dictionary in Python. We can say a two-way dictionary can be represented as key ⇐⇒ value. One example of two-way dictionaries is:Example:dict={ 1 : 'Apple' , 2 : 'Google' , 3 : 'Microsoft'} Input 1: 1 Output 1: Apple Input 2: Microsoft Output 2: 3 Explaination:The above dictionary maps…

Converting Python dictionaries into DataFrames using PandasPhoto by David Schultz on Unsplashpandas is one of the most popular libraries in the Python ecosystem that is used for data analysis and manipulation in a fast and effective way by providing an intuitive and powerful API that lets developers interact with data.One of the most common tasks when working with Python and pandas is converting a dictionary into a DataFrame. This can be extremely useful when you’d like to perform a quick analysis or even visualisation of…

Questions that come from real lifePhoto by Towfiqu barbhuiya on UnsplashStack Overflow is the largest online community that constantly asks and answers questions in software, coding, data science, and many other subjects.What I think makes it a priceless resource is that questions come from the real-life. People post questions about what they struggle with in their jobs. The answers usually come from people who experienced the same challenge and found a solution.I wrote an article about 10 most frequently asked questions…