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Interesting Points

Vance’s Cabin

• UTM: 13S388056E4360100N
• Decimal Degrees: 39.383129N, -106.299797W
• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: 39°22′59.265″N, -106°17′59.265″W

Guanella Pass

• UTM: 13S438942.4E4383049.3N
• Decimal Degrees: 39.595E, -105.711112W
• Degrees Minutes Seconds: 39°35′42″N 105°42′40″W

Second Creek TH

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Make Your Own Banner

The Problem

A friend is having a baby shower, and you’re helping with organizing the event. You’d like to make a banner, but nothing says it quite right, but you find a Make Your Own Banner kit at the store! This kit contains the alphabet, with each letter occuring n-times, based on the frequency of that letter in English text. Will this kit, what phrases can you create? Will it work for the party?

Data

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What Do Data Scientists Do?

• Define the question
• Define the ideal data set
• What data can you access?
• Obtain the data
• Clean the data
• Exploratory data analysis
• Statistical Prediction / modeling
• Interpret results

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This might have come from Clojure Applied

Thinking in Processes

The use of threads, data parallelism with reducers, and task parallelism is for parallelism (of a few tasks), not concurrent threads of execution.

Channels

• like queues

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REPL Workflow notes

Pimp My REPL

Ian Truslove told me about a blog post, Pimp My REPL, and it offers a good starting point. Since it’s a little over a year old, we should check and see if the advice is still accurate, or if some of the tools have changed.

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Asynchronous HTTP with core.async

What happens if we have a function like http/get in a go-block?

(defn fetch-target []
  (let [url (server-url :target)]
    (:body (http/get url))))

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As We May Think

An essay by Vannevar Bush, from the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic

On automating an established idea

“The repetitive processes of thought are not confined however, to matters of arithmetic and statistics. In fact, every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical process, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed and

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Thoughts on Code Reading

Goals

The goals of reading code, especially in a small library, include:

• figuring out what the library does,
• observing the structure of the library,
• …

A Collection of Small Libraries

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