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lovingawareness / circles.tex
Last active November 30, 2019 06:49
Using LaTeX to make circles on an equilateral triangle grid. Seed of Life Coloring Book.
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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[left=0cm,top=2cm,right=0cm,bottom=0cm,nohead,nofoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfmathsetmacro{\r}{3}
% Given that A4 paper is 21cm x 29.7 cm, we can calculate the maximum number of circles that will fit on the page based on the radius
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lovingawareness / nrrb.py
Created November 1, 2019 16:51
Making silly phrases out of initials
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from random import choice
from functools import reduce
with open('mobypos.txt', 'r', encoding='latin1') as f:
moby_words = [line.strip() for line in f.readlines()]
words = [dict(zip(['word', 'pos'], moby_word.split('\\'))) for moby_word in moby_words]
pos_key = {
'Noun': 'N',
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lovingawareness / r-rstudio-tinytex-faq.markdown
Last active January 8, 2019 19:15
FAQs related to installing R, RStudio, TinyTeX at Kellogg
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FAQs for Installing R, RStudio, and TinyTeX

@ Kellogg School of Management

1. /usr/local/bin not writable

I see this error when I install TinyTeX:

add_link_dir_dir: destination /usr/local/bin not writable, no links from /Users/hagen/Library/TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-darwin. add of symlinks had 1 error(s), see messages above. add of symlinks had 1 error(s), see messages above. tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.

This is an issue on some Macs, where that folder /usr/local/bin is not writable by your user account for some reason. Here's how to fix it:

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lovingawareness / beer_menu.thor
Created January 27, 2018 04:59 — forked from cadwallion/beer_menu.thor
Ruck beer list scraper
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# A Thor-based commandline tool for all BeerMenu.
# Based on @jsteiner's Ruby equivalent of @jlet's Python Ruck
# beer list scraper
# @jsteiner's Original: https://gist.github.com/2703889
# @jlet's Original: ttps://gist.github.com/2659721
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
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lovingawareness / ruck-beer.py
Created January 27, 2018 04:58 — forked from jletourneau/ruck-beer.py
Ruck beer list scraper
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#!/usr/bin/python
from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
import re
import datetime
print datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%c')
print
doc = pq(url='http://www.beermenus.com/places/4733-the-ruck')
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lovingawareness / fabfile.py
Last active January 9, 2018 19:31 — forked from roselleebarle04/fabfile.py
Simple django fabric script for deployment
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import os
import sys
from fab_deploy import *
from fabric.contrib.console import confirm
from fabric.api import env, cd, prefix, local, sudo as _sudo, run as _run, hide, task, settings, abort
from fabric.contrib.files import exists, upload_template
from fabric.colors import yellow, green, blue, red
from fabric.operations import _prefix_commands, _prefix_env_vars
from contextlib import contextmanager
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lovingawareness / gist:92e7950a27b2b96b52830fa54c09e9c8
Created November 28, 2017 01:24 — forked from rxaviers/gist:7360908
Complete list of github markdown emoji markup
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lovingawareness / convert.py
Last active May 16, 2017 18:47 — forked from paulgb/convert.py
Convert the Yelp Academic dataset from JSON to CSV files with Pandas.
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'''
Convert Yelp Academic Dataset from JSON to CSV
Requires Pandas (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas)
By Paul Butler, No Rights Reserved
'''
import json
import pandas as pd
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#!/usr/bin/python
from __future__ import print_function
from pprint import pprint
# Write a function done_or_not passing a board (list[list_lines]) as parameter.
# If the board is valid return 'Finished!', otherwise return 'Try again!'
# Sudoku rules:
#
# ROWS:
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lovingawareness / face_detect.py
Last active September 14, 2015 02:52 — forked from 46bit/face_detect.py
Face detection using OpenCV. Refactored from https://realpython.com/blog/python/face-recognition-with-python/.
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import sys, cv2
# Refactored https://realpython.com/blog/python/face-recognition-with-python/
def cascade_detect(cascade, image):
gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
return cascade.detectMultiScale(
gray_image,
scaleFactor = 1.15,
minNeighbors = 5,