[michaelrpeskin]

I have a old guy that I work with - PhD in Math (because CS didn't exist then) - who does lots of algorithm development with me. I often get Word docs of pseudo code from him. I'll do a search-and-replace on things like "LET" and "ELSE IF" and a very high percentage of the time if I run it in Python it works on the first try. Kind of amazing to me.

The hard part for me is then translating his ideas into vectorized numpy for speed, but at least I get the right answer to check against.