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by bdevine 12y ago
I think you may have gotten ahead of yourself in your explanation, but to be clear, it's the "with" statement that causes the line iteration that then feeds into set(f). To say that "set(f) uses f as an iterator" mi
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by bdevine 12y ago
Always glad to see tips, tricks, and otherwise for Python. But for anyone checking out Python who sees how useful the defaultdict construct is but doesn't necessarily need nested attributes, the Counter class[0] has been available for
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by bdevine 12y ago
Taken in good fun, but if anyone is interested, urn models are frequently used in probability theory though. [0] [0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urn_problem
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by bdevine 12y ago
As someone who is similarly afflicted, here's a seconded "Thank you"!
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by bdevine 12y ago
Thanks for posting this. A great read and I'm now following the author on Twitter.
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by bdevine 12y ago
Having only an infrequently-used personal account, I was told by the landing page that analytics would only apply to tweets going forward. Rather disappointing, but I suspect that I'll check in on it from time to time anyway.
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by bdevine 12y ago
Right, given that as yet no DNA from Kennewick Man is available, I believe it's implied that he may have been the product of intermingling between the theoretical first settlers and the later Bering settlers. No revision of land bridge
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by bdevine 12y ago
Well-said; thank you for the reply. Based on what you've said and what the article says and implies, I am inclined to be biased against the tribes in this matter. While there is obviously a long and tragic history that is still in play
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by bdevine 12y ago
Summary: About 15,000 years ago, sea-faring people made their way from what is now Japan along the North Pacific rim to what is now the First Nations region. It was only later that the Bering land bridge migration occurred, those peoples in
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The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets(smithsonianmag.com)
67 points by bdevine 12y ago|24 comments
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Why Does Absinthe Get Cloudy?(seriouseats.com)
2 points by bdevine 12y ago|0 comments
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by bdevine 12y ago
Here's an article detailing just how it is that all these local police departments are getting such lovely weapons of mass murder: http://www.newsweek.com/how-americas-police-became-army-1033... (Short answer: Congress
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by bdevine 12y ago
I'm fond of attributing this quote to myself, but I may have the causality reversed.
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by bdevine 12y ago
The sessions, the wget-like download mode, the binary detection, the upload capabilities... there is a lot to like here. I will definitely be checking this out. Thanks for posting!
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by bdevine 12y ago
"Treading in Python, Vol. 2" by Harrison goes pretty in-depth with the usual suspects -- iterators, generators, decorators, dunder methods, etc. Then Knupp's "Idiomatic Python" is handy to review for tips and tricks
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by bdevine 12y ago
Good points all. This is what I get for mouthing off from my phone instead of taking the time to think about what I'm saying. I will say though that given the continuing productivity of language, the fact that those earlier examples ex
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by bdevine 12y ago
Nice catch! I didn't go there at all, but maybe I should have!
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by bdevine 12y ago
I haven't heard this term before, but maybe that's just me: "... it became clear that ad retargeting—in which you show ads to people who recently visited your website—was where MARKETEERING dollars were going" (emphasis
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by bdevine 12y ago
San Diego, CA | Local, remote, open to relocation | Full Time, Part Time, Contract Stack: Python generalist with some Flask and HTML/JS/CSS. NLTK, Pandas, etc. - please see my linkedin profile for a full list of keywords. Resume:
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by bdevine 12y ago
True, true. But the point still stands that there are options which hint at the durability of cockroaches without invoking disgust! Actually this all does remind me of research on the tangible effect of disgust on products -- see [0]. That
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by bdevine 12y ago
That's the first thing I thought. If anybody from the team is looking, how about something like BlattoDB[0]? [0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattaria
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by bdevine 12y ago
It's really awesome to see the enhanced Vagrant support, as well as the Angular support. What I am really looking forward to/hoping for, though, is IPython notebook file integration.
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by bdevine 12y ago
Yes, I remember that well. Seeing the animated graphics linked within that article really was an 'ah ha!' moment for me; I'd definitely recommend it as an introductory intuitive motivation.
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by bdevine 12y ago
I feel like I have read most of these in a piecemeal fashion, but seeing all these articles together like this really drives home the importance of paying attention to the basics. Great collection; thanks for sharing!
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by bdevine 12y ago
I liked the latest edition of "Python Cookbook" by Beazley and Jones for precisely this.
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by bdevine 12y ago
As someone who is currently looking for a job, I'm slightly annoyed (with myself) that I missed it. There are several salient points already made about its merits and drawbacks, but please consider this a vote for some kind of periodic
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by bdevine 12y ago
I am currently going through Miguel Grinberg's Flask dev book (the early O'Reilly version) but I had considered diving into Django instead. My rationale for making this choice basically came down to seeing that Flask doesn't
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by bdevine 12y ago
I do this as well, because the cart has the property of notifying me of price changes of items saved in the cart. I'm actually not sure if wish lists do this as well, but as I am in the cart so often (shopping online as much as I do),
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by bdevine 12y ago
That's very interesting and cool, but the myth[0] is that a large amount of copies were buried, and one copy found is necessary but insufficient evidence of the myth's veracity. FWIW, I do hope that the legends are true! [0] http
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by bdevine 12y ago
As a broad first pass, have you looked into LSI and other related topic-modeling algorithms? I am a Pythonista and I like a library called gensim very much for playing in that space; maybe look at the documentation for that and see if it sp

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