thronemonkey

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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I've long thought it would be awesome if someone started a business along these lines: a news source driven by data analysis; like fivethirtyeight but for analysis of all sorts of news and current events, not just elections.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Do you know if it supports ipython? I'm on the scientific computing side of the python world, so django is less important to me . . .
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I'm currently struggling to find a satisfactory IDE for python for this exact reason. This seemingly obvious feature has to be hacked on to just about every popular coding tool. The best things I've found so far are the ipython web notebook
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
That math app sounds amazing. I think this is something that would be great to have in a Surface-type device with a touchscreen and a keyboard — I would love to have that sort of input integrated with Mathematica or sympy or what have you.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
The degree to which this is possible has been hugely exaggerated. Yes, you can have DNA mailed to you, but not DNA as its packaged in the human genome. When you order from NEB or Sigma-Aldritch, what you get is a short DNA sequence (usually
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Can you suggest any resources for learning about profiling in python? I'm just getting into scientific computing with numpy,scipy,etc. and I'd be interested to learn more.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Nostalgia is universal, but Britain is in the somewhat unique position of having once been a hyperpower and today being substantially less relevant on the world stage.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Hmmm I use python for most scientific computing applications, but I do a lot of statistical things in R. I've been interested in trying pandas for a while, might be time to give it a shot . . .
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
My initial thought was that while I've never done any 3D printing so I'm not how hard the plastic is, it might be possible to print something in the right shape and use it to unscrew these? Its an interesting idea, but the screws are likely
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Alternatively, if you're young and single just live with a bunch of roommates — group cooking/cleaning/etc is really cheap.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I for one love LibreOffice Writer and find it to be much more intuitive and configurable than Word. Draw and Calc leave something to be desired, but the needs they fill are better served by Adobe products and R respectively, imho.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
This is exactly what I do. The device doesn't have the password to my wifi so it can't phone home. I have no need to connect it to the internet — I just transfer files from my computer over USB. Couldn't be happier with the setup.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Little Brother anyone? I've always told people that book is hyperbolic but good anyway; seems like that might not be the case :/
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
The problem isn't just what journals will publish, its how funding is distributed: the modern NIH/NSF grant process gives money for likelihood of producing positive results, which might sounds reasonable on the surface but which leads to pe
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
even if you get shutdon you've inspired me to write a script to do it myself. any chance you would publish your code if you were shutdown?
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Oh my god I love you
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Same here. On Opera, 0 days. weird.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Agree. I just started doing scientific computing in python/scipy/numpy/matplotlib and it is fantastic. I see python going nowhere but up in the scientific community.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
wow awesome! I'm getting ready for the RTR prerelease and this will for sure help!
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Ahhh I see. I have three finger drag enabled, so not as much of a pain.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
To me that's why its so magical. Its actually expensive in time and effort to navigate, so you feel like you're investing something in order to explore. This also means that its difficult to see every part of the image, so you're left with
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
In the words of a good friend of mine: "You wouldn't download a car? Man if I could download a car off the internet for free, you bet your sweet ass I would!"
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I'm a GPG noob, is there a way to configre pass + gpg so that my passwords are encrypted with AES rather than an asymmetric algorithm?
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
As far as not widely audited goes, the encryption is handled by GPG so that part is at least fine.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Ahhh, I see, thanks for the explanation, makes sense.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
What exactly do you mean by underground syndrome?
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I work in science, and the answer is basically no. In order to be a successful scientist, you have to be fascinated, even obsessed with your topic of study, sometimes to the point of not really caring about the wider world. This means that,
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
holy shit, did not know about this. This was really the one thing from Mathematica that I was still missing in iPython. Thank you!
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Its also interesting to think about totally post-scarcity societies, as in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
There are also a few scientists!

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