anandology | 3 years ago | on: Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)
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anandology | 5 years ago | on: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
I have been playing with a Raspberry 400 for couple of days now. I thought of recommend it for my nephew, but couldn't do it because of the following drawbacks.
1. Lack of 3.5mm audio jack or built-in microphone/speakers 2. Unable to run Zoom reliably
Given that schools are closed (at least in India) and classes are happening over zoom, these two drawbacks makes it a no-go for my use case.
anandology | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: HyperProphet – The Easiest Way Run FB Prophet at Scale
> Just for curiosity, is the # of forecasts due to SKU/locations, or due to granularity of series (i.e. let's forecast absolutely every KPI driver, as well as on different time scales).
In our case, the big number was due to SKU/locations. But in other use cases, it could be due to multiple KPIs.
> Apologies if that's an low level question, the Walmart blog was relatively large in use case.
I agree. I was trying to highlight the amount of infrastructure and setup required to scale forecasts. While that makes sense for their scale, there are hardly any options to achieve that without dealing with infra.
anandology | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: CLI tool to download webpages and convert to Markdown?
anandology | 6 years ago | on: Infinite work is less work
Didn't realize I could use `itertools.count`. In fact, it accepts a `start` parameter.
The `take` function is borrowed from Haskell. It feels lot more natural to say/read `take(10, primes())`, than `islice(primes(), 10)`.
anandology | 6 years ago | on: Infinite work is less work
I think Infinity can be handled lot more elegantly in Python.
Here is my response with the same problem solved in Python.
anandology | 6 years ago | on: Go Slices Are Fat Pointers
Any slice implementation that references to the original data has to be some kind of "fat pointer". Is there any other way that can be done?
String.substring in Java does exactly that. I'm sure numpy arrays in Python are implemented like that, perhaps slightly more fatter.
anandology | 7 years ago | on: IPFS Project Roadmap
In addition to apt and npm, I would like to see docker image distribution powered by IPFS. It really feels stupid to pull images from a central registry sitting on the other side of the globe when the image is already present in the next node in your kubernetes cluster.
anandology | 7 years ago | on: German town votes ‘No’ to street names
Reminds of Bhopal, a city in India. People there are very fond of numbers. You see people getting on a bus and buying a ticket for "aath number" (number 8) or even "saade paanch" (five and half). You are right, thay are names of places. Not feeling well? get youself checked at "baara sau pachas" (twelve hundred and fifty). Yes, that is the name of a public hospital. It took me a while to get used it.
anandology | 7 years ago | on: Multi-view Wire Art
ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany has an exhibition called Open Codes, where they have used a single solid object to generate all letters in the alphabet using projections.
anandology | 8 years ago | on: You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
Agree. Thats what makes jupyter lab in the cloud very interesting.
anandology | 8 years ago | on: You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
Yes, it is incredibly easy, except when you upgrade to tensorflow 1.6 and it fails with [a cuda error][1] and after couple of sleepless nights you realize nvidia has deleted the docker image of cuda version 70xx from dockerhub and you need to find the right commit that works from their git repo and build everything yourself.
anandology | 11 years ago | on: Python Practice Book
Please submit an issue on github.
anandology | 11 years ago | on: Python Practice Book
Thanks for the suggestion. Added a note on the index page.
anandology | 13 years ago | on: PythonMonk – Learn Python in the browser
I'm teach Python professionally. People come to learn Python so that they can go back and use it at their work place. And almost all Python installations in productions are in Python 2. I'm sure it is going to change soon once Linux distributions make Python 3 their default version.
P.S. I'm the author of Python Primer on pythonmonk.com
anandology | 13 years ago | on: PythonMonk – Learn Python in the browser
Thanks for pointing the mistake. Corrected the tests now.
Solution to that problem is correct. Sets weren't introduced yet.
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