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I have a new home on the internet. I don’t visit the Twitter home timeline or the Facebook news feed anymore. I don’t open the Instagram app except when I post a photo. I still have…

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Analysis 2 : failure(s) to meet deadlines
2 months ago4 Comments
Table of Contents Trust and communication.Lack of involvement and/or commitmentWith respect to deadlinesFootnotes: The earlier analysis was deemed incomplete, and this analysis is intended to make amends. Trust and communication. Recent chan talk has shown me that people appear to ask specific questions before ‘submitting’ for training. My approach towards that submission was naive and … Continue reading "Analysis 2 : failure(s) to meet deadlines"Read More »
Bash scripting to compare the Ossasepia logs
3 months ago3 Comments
Table of Contents Preliminary notes:PlanSimple caseIncluding variables for url prefix, start id and end idFiguring out a larger rangeImplementing a simple conditional statementImplementing the for loop for a range > 500Adding some functions and other minor streamliningEnabling the script to be called with parametersComparing logs for range 9998683 to 1000000Concluding remarksReferences The task is to … Continue reading "Bash scripting to compare the Ossasepia logs"Read More »
Analysis of failure(s) to meet deadlines
3 months ago1 Comment
Mandate: Read #o logs and analyse failures to meet deadlines… since the beginning of (my) time in chan :`( – 1and Diana Coman will not talk to me untill this is finished, (which is actually a lot worse.2). The mandate is also to curse the stupidity that I have been feeding. There have been 10 … Continue reading "Analysis of failure(s) to meet deadlines"Read More »
*What* do I need first before “TMSR is all I wanna do”
3 months ago2 Comments
Table of Contents Updates:FodderDistilled (well.. somewhat)Path forward Updates: [2019-09-13 Fri]: Added rough estimate for cost of living @ Canada. Distilled (4.0). This will be subsequently expanded to consider altogether other locations. [2019-09-14 Sat] Added Path forward section and also some references to chan discussions. Log Reference to the question Fodder These are general rough points … Continue reading "*What* do I need first before “TMSR is all I wanna do”"Read More »
How did I choose ‘Data Science’ ?
3 months ago3 Comments
This is an account as to how I found Data Science to be a suitable answer to many problems. It is necessary to provide a little background to have the connections make sense. I entered slavery fueled by a great passion for the subject of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and it will always remain close … Continue reading "How did I choose ‘Data Science’ ?"Read More »
Some notes on research-compendium
3 months ago3 Comments
These are my notes while studying the research-compendium concept, which is essentially a bunch of guidelines to produce research that is ‘easily’ reproducible. I’m sure I will have better methods in hand when I comprehend v.py and make progress in my tasks. The notes are mostly based on https://peerj.com/preprints/3192/, which is recommended as a canonical … Continue reading "Some notes on research-compendium"Read More »
Brief notes on security and removing HTTPS from my website
3 months ago1 Comment
I was under the false impression (based on superficial ‘knowledge’) that enabling HTTPS for my website is a fundamental method of securing the communication and connection with my website. My mentors at TMSR were kind to open my eyes and get me started in the right direction. Besides hosting my website – the plan was … Continue reading "Brief notes on security and removing HTTPS from my website"Read More »
Canada Open Data : Exploration of Wages
3 months agoNo Comments
Table of Contents PlanRough notesDatasets that will be analysedNotes on visual explorationEDAMLShinyLinks to dataset webpagesWages, salaries, employers social contributions. by province and territory linkEmployee wages by occupation, annual linkEmployee wages by industry, annual linkWages – 2017, 2018 link Plan [ ] Decide on which data set is to be analysed [ ] Ensure a method to access … Continue reading "Canada Open Data : Exploration of Wages"Read More »
Loper OS » Steam Lisp
4 months ago5 Comments
" “Improvements come in many ways, sometimes after much thought and after many experimental failures. Sometimes they flash upon clever inventors, but let us remember this is only after they have spent long years studying the problem. In the case of the steam engine, however, a quite important improvement came very curiously. Humphrey Potter was … Continue reading "Loper OS » Steam Lisp"Read More »
Manual-inches and typography
4 months agoNo Comments
“I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. If the reader is expected to be unable to concentrate or experiences mental fatigue just by looking at a page of text without oceans of whitespace, the material … Continue reading "Manual-inches and typography"Read More »
Another emphatic statement on the ‘Python v/s R’ non-sense.
4 months ago2 Comments
"I’m tired of the “which language is better argument”. Each language was designed to solve specific problems. Here’s only 2 (out of many examples I’ll provide): ML applications: Python Biosciences and Genomics: R If I had a Genomics ML problem, I would def not be using python. Just as if I had a marketing application, … Continue reading "Another emphatic statement on the ‘Python v/s R’ non-sense."Read More »
Where Does Lisp Get Its Power? – Land of Lisp
4 months agoNo Comments
"The second trait that gives a language power is letting you muck around inside it as deeply as possible to make it do your bidding. That way, even if the designers of the language never conceived of what you’re trying to do, you can make your own changes to the language until it does exactly … Continue reading "Where Does Lisp Get Its Power? – Land of Lisp"Read More »