mharrison's comments

Tim the enchanter!

Have seen jobs where PhD is "required". (Many data scientists tend to push this view as they feel it protects them and gives them elevated status).

Am also in the middle of training a group of future data scientists. The company is having issues hiring, and believe it is easier to train SME's in data science than the reverse.

Really enjoying jupytext. I do a bunch of my training from Jupyter and it has made my workflow better.

Nice commute! (I used to ride almost the exact same path about 20 years ago)

That's interesting as the Spark api was inspired by Pandas

Do you publish on Amazon? If not, you are leaving a lot of money (relative to leanpub sales) on the table.

This sponsoring is cool. I wonder if they would work with self-published books.

Writing a book is a huge effort (I'm the author of a couple Python books, one of which is on the current Python Humble Bundle). From speaking with (many) other Python authors, most would do better financially self-publishing. There are few titles that sell very well from publishers (they do 2nd, and 3rd versions), but these would probably do even better if they were self-published.

Of course, there are other reasons for publishing. (People really want their name on an animal book). One of those reasons is that a book is a really good business card. This is especially useful for consultants or when looking for a job. "Why yes, I do know about ...., in fact, I wrote a book on it".

I could blame quite a bit of my business (I do consulting and corporate training) on writing books.

You have probably never noticed but most modern cars have a small arrow by the gas dial that points to the side of the car where you fill up.

Seen Divvy, never tried it. I'll have to look into it.

This might be what I'm looking for http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.grid.html

This is pretty cool. Is there anything similar for OSX? The corner specification would come in handy on 40inch 4K monitor

(Currently using Hammerspoon, but use qtile on Linux)

As a self published author, the best way to support me is to review on Amazon or share on social media :)

I appreciate that. Thanks!

Hence, when I'm doing a corporate training, this material takes about three days to cover.

Yeah, these slides were for a long conference talk that introduced the basic syntax of Python to developers who weren't familiar with Python.

(List) comprehensions are super cool, as are generators, decorators, etc, but there just wasn't enough time to cover that. Plus, as you say most code is boring, and you can get by with the material in this deck.

Just noticed this on my commute home (author of slides).

This is an old and condensed version of corporate training that I run. Typically the training runs for some 4 days. If you want a more modern version of this material (that you can submit your PR's to), check out my Python 3.6 reference[0].

If you have any questions, fire away, and I'll do my best to answer them.

[0]- https://github.com/mattharrison/Tiny-Python-3.6-Notebook

Keep practicing. I've used an ergodox for about 4 years with the Norman layout. I am still proficient at qwerty on laptop style keyboards.

Though I'm not a musician I assume it is similar to playing two different instruments.

Cool. What is the monitization strategy? Affiliate from Datacamp?

I have written all of my books (Treading on Python, Pandas, etc) in restructuredtext. I have tools that convert said markup to epub and LaTeX[0].

There is some learning curve, but you can get LaTeX out of rst from docutils, Sphinx, or my tools.

0 - https://github.com/mattharrison/rst2nitrile

If you are noticing more floaties it could be a sign of a retina tear, which would lead to a detachment (not fun see my other comment). Might want to go get an eye checkup.

I had a retina detachment earlier this year. My retina had torn and scarred on the bottom of my eye and decided to detach while I was out of the country. Recovery has been ok and I have 20/30 vision on that eye .... But that is with staring at the letters for long enough until my brain has averaged the letter out (the letters actually narrow and widen). I now have a permanent pinch in the middle of my sight due to the retina not lying down perfectly flat. I will have to deal with this as my doctor says this will not heal. It is not fun. If I wear corrective lenses my eye tries to merge two images that aren't the same size.

Anyway I'll stop ranting. One of the signs that you might be having tears (precursor to detachment) is an increase of floaties in the eye. Also nearsightedness (yes for to the eye shadow you have a higher chance of detachment), and light flashes. If you are noticing more floaties you might want to get out checked out.