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heetbeet / Sequence Probability Calculation.md
Created April 18, 2023 11:57
Sequence Probability Calculation
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USER

You have two sequences, a long one and a short one. The short one is 3 characters long, the long one is 40 characters long. They are comprised of characters from the latin alphabet (each char can be one of 26 possible chars). What is the probability of the shorter sequence occurring in the longer sequence? Keep everything symbolic right up to the end.

ASSISTANT

Let's denote the short sequence as S and the long sequence as L. The short sequence S has a length of 3 characters, while the long sequence L has a length of 40 characters. We want to find the probability of S occurring in L.

There are 26 possible characters for each position in both sequences, and there are (40-3+1) = 38 possible positions in the long sequence where the short sequence could be placed.

Let's compute the probability of the short sequence occurring at a specific position in the long sequence. Since there are 26 possible characters for each position and the characters are assumed to be independent, the probability of the sh

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heetbeet / ChatGPT.md
Created March 17, 2023 07:24
VBA test valid South African ID
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USER

Tell me how to check for valid South african ID numbers. Are there checksums? It starts with yymmdd so at least you know that 009999 is an invalid start. Write a list of all things that can be considered

ASSISTANT

Valid South African ID numbers follow a specific format and contain a few checks that can be used to determine their validity. Here is a list of things you can consider when checking the validity of a South African ID number:

  1. Length: A valid South African ID number should be 13 digits long.
  2. Birthdate: The first six digits should represent the birthdate of the person in the format YYMMDD. This means that an ID number starting with "009999" would be invalid as you mentioned.
  3. Gender: The 7th to 9th digits indicate the gender of the person. A value of 0000-4999 represents a female, while 5000-9999 represents a male.
  4. Citizenship: The 10th digit represents citizenship. A value of 0 indicates a South African citizen, while 1 indicates a permanent resident.
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heetbeet / emdw-deps
Created January 25, 2022 06:59
Example wrapper for g++ build tools pipeline
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cur_script="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
cur_dir="$(dirname "${cur_script}")"
dot=$cur_dir
slash=$cur_dir/linux
libs=$dot/devel/prlite/build/src:$dot/devel/gLinear/build/Linux-Release-x86_64:$slash//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas:$slash/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack:$slash/lib:$slash/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$slash/usr/lib:$slash/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$slash/usr/local/lib
headers=$dot/devel/prlite/src:$dot/devel/gLinear:$slash/usr/include/c++/9:$slash/usr/local/include:$slash/usr/include:$slash/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu
bins=$dot/VSCode-linux-x64:$slash/usr/local/bin:$slash/usr/bin:$slash/bin
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Did you know you can install fonts without elevation?

The catch is that they're only available for the duration of your session. They are, however, available in all apps across the system.

Someone asked about how to do it on Facebook this week, and at first, I just pointed them at the install script for PowerLineFonts which loops through all the fonts in a folder and install them.

I've used this more than a few times to install some fonts, including the PowerLine ones, which are great:

$sa = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
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heetbeet / Compile-Julia-on-Windows.md
Last active January 11, 2021 19:00
Lazy guide for compiling Julia on Windows
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Setup your environment

Get cygwin portable

  • Download and place cygwin-portable-installer.cmd in the base directory.
  • Edit cygwin-portable-installer.cmd and add the following line (for additional Cygwin dependencies) after line set CYGWIN_PACKAGES=bash-completion,...:

    set CYGWIN_PACKAGES=%CYGWIN_PACKAGES%,cmake,gcc-g++,git,make,patch,curl,m4,python3,p7zip,mingw64-i686-gcc-g++,mingw64-i686-gcc-fortran,mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++,mingw64-x86_64-gcc-fortran (The list of packages is taken from [build-windows.md](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/doc/b
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heetbeet / unix2dos_batfiles.sh
Created August 26, 2020 14:18
Convert all bat files in a subdirectory to dos crlf format
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find . -name '*.bat' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 unix2dos --
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heetbeet / sync-time.bat
Created August 25, 2020 08:30
Manually sync microsoft time
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@echo off
if "%~1" equ "isadmin" goto :runmain
powershell "Start-Process -FilePath '%~f0' -WorkingDirectory '%~dp0' -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList isadmin"
goto :eof
:runmain
net start W32Time
w32tm /resync
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heetbeet / regwalk.py
Created August 3, 2020 19:02
Walk through windows registry
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import winreg
from contextlib import suppress
import itertools
from path import Path
def subkeys(path, hkey=winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER):
flags=0
with suppress(WindowsError), winreg.OpenKey(hkey, path, 0, winreg.KEY_READ|flags) as k:
for i in itertools.count():
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heetbeet / python.py
Created May 2, 2020 12:47
Compile this file to get a mini python.exe with auto-py-to-exe
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'''
This script mimicks part of the python executable, in order for it to be
compiled and shipped using auto-py-to-exe
'''
import sys
import os
thisdir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(thisdir, 'site-packages'))
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(thisdir))
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heetbeet / multiitem_excel_formulas.py
Last active February 12, 2020 14:57
When does excel use a single item from a named range v.s. all the items?
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'''
This script serves as and answer to the stack overflow question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59652623/when-does-excel-use-a-single-item-from-a-named-range-v-s-all-the-items
'''
import urllib.request
from path import Path
import collections