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## Taskmaster - nudges you onto the most important task - by Peter Wildeford
## To install: (1) save this script as `~/bin/taskmaster.applescript`.
## (2) Use `crontab -e` and add `*/40 09-19 * * 0-5 osascript $HOME/bin/taskmaster.applescript` to your crontab
## (this will run the crontab every 40 minutes between 9am and 7pm on Mondays through Fridays - use https://crontab.guru/ to customize)
tell application "Finder"
    activate
    display alert "Taskmaster" message "Are you working on the most important task?" buttons ["No", "Yes"] default button 1
end tell

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## Slack watcher - makes sure you only have Slack running if you should to avoid being distracted
## by Patrick Brinich-Langois, Ben Kuhn, and Peter Wildeford
## To install: (1) save this script as `~/bin/slack_watcher.applescript`.
## (2) Use `crontab -e` and add `*/22 * * * * osascript $HOME/bin/slack_watcher.applescript` to your crontab
## (this will run every 22 minutes while Slack is open - Slack will be closed if you press `No`)

tell application "System Events"
        set activeApp to name of first process whose frontmost is true
end tell

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Nothing novel here, just want these instructions all in one place for my own use.

1.) Ensure everything is pushed to master and is working

2.) Ensure CHANGES.md is up to date with latest

3.) Ensure version in setup.py is incremented

4.) Tag the repo - e.g., git tag 0.2 && git push origin 0.2

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brew install pandoc
brew tap homebrew/cask
brew install --cask basictex
eval "$(/usr/libexec/path_helper)"
# Update $PATH to include `/usr/local/texlive/2022basic/bin/universal-darwin`
sudo tlmgr update --self
sudo tlmgr install texliveonfly
sudo tlmgr install xelatex
sudo tlmgr install adjustbox
sudo tlmgr install tcolorbox

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# Install and load libraries
if (!require("dplyr")) { install.packages("dplyr") }; library(dplyr)
if (!require("devtools")) { install.packages("devtools") }; library(devtools)
if (!require("readr")) { install.packages("readr") }; library(readr)
if (!require("recombinator")) { install_github("robertzk/recombinator") }; library(readr)


# Download data from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LzUHVgbyQddvESuW_WhJwNUn52023vYerlsho39em2I/edit#gid=0
states <- read_csv("~/Downloads/AR US States.csv")

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## Load libraries
if (!require(readr)) { install.packages("readr") }; library(readr)
if (!require(magrittr)) { install.packages("magrittr") }; library(magrittr)
if (!require(dplyr)) { install.packages("dplyr") }; library(dplyr)
if (!require(tibbletime)) { install.packages("tibbletime") }; library(tibbletime)
if (!require(lubridate)) { install.packages("lubridate") }; library(lubridate)
if (!require(devtools)) { install.packages("devtools") }; library(devtools)
if (!require(shinyview)) { install_github("peterhurford/shinyview") }; library(shinyview)

## Load Mint transactions

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# For every AWS availability zone and instance I care about, check the spot
# price for the last ninety days and generate stats about which spot instance
# gives the best deal.

import boto
import boto.ec2
from vowpal_platypus.utils import mean


REGIONS = {'us-east-1': ['us-east-1a', 'us-east-1b', 'us-east-1c', 'us-east-1e'],

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Learn Python

1. Go through Codecademy on Python if you haven't https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python
2. Do Exercises 1-44 on https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

Learn Stats

3. Read "Introduction to Statistical Learning" to learn more stats: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

Learn Python for DS

4. Learn scipy / numpy / pandas by watching this webcast: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3714

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Total kg per capita consumed of beef, veal, pork, poultry, and sheep meat by country in 2016, adapted from OECD Data on Meat Consumption. Per-animal breakdown is available as a CSV.

IND	2.944374911
BGD	3.358927799
ETH	4.449228451
NGA	6.061917778
TZA	6.986943733
MOZ	7.117845532
SSA	8.798326892