The What, Why and How of starting your own private Git repo.
Git is just a place for us all to keep our code/scripts/information.
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How far away is the horizon? | |
How far away is that mountain? | |
How far away can something (on the Earth) be that I can still see it? | |
All good questions. Let's answer them. | |
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from math import sqrt |
What is GitHub? Is GitHub right for your government agency?
Git is a command-line tool that helps people who write software in several key ways:
I'm mortal and want to enjoy the little time I have in existence. A young waitress once asked the Dalai Lama what the meaning of life is, and he replied "happiness". I'm not sure how she felt about that answer, but it feels right to me. Though it turns out he wasn't advocating complete hedonism (see Existentialism vs Nihilism).
I want to spend a little time once in a while cultivating a collection of discusssions on what makes people happy.
Do I think I will find the answer? No.
I just think it is worth a little time every now-and-again considering my own happiness, fullfillment, or peace-of-mind.
I want to re-watch all of the Doctor Who TV episodes with River Song, but from her timeline.
Beware, sometimes a single episode of Doctor Who shows River Song at two very different parts of her timeline. This is particularly true for the beginning of her timeline. The list below is the best we can do without breaking episodes into pieces.
Series | Story | Episode Name |
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If you could solve poker with data science, you could make a lot of money any time you want.
If we want to model poker, the first step is to model a single deal of the cards. Now, casinos might deal from more than one deck. But let's start by modeling a single deal from a single 52-card deck:
def sample (n, m):
s = []
Got a favorite web comic? Leave me a comic and I'll add it!
This is just a place for me to keep links that I've found interesting on various topics I've been interested in lately.
I have always been afraid of portrait photography, but think it's one of the best things when done really well.
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties | |
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt | |
import matplotlib as mpl | |
mpl.style.use('ggplot') | |
def main(): | |
# make plot objects | |
#fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 9), facecolor='white') # 800px-wide version |