Pythonic `functional` (`iter`)tools for your data challenges

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Covers using Python’s functional-programming tools—itertools, functools, and map-reduce patterns—to solve data filtering and processing tasks. Explains pure functions (and why mutable parameters are problematic) and demonstrates functional-style solutions applied to Advent of Code puzzles.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:00filter
3. 12:53Functional built-ins
4. 16:55Warmup
5. 19:41Reduce at its best
6. 21:47Moving on an infinite 2d Grid
7. 28:03The key_fn is the key
8. 31:19Neural Networks as High-Order Functions

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