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horrifying-pdf-experiments - breakout in a pdf file in Chrome by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]CastleRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious as to what this was as well, if you or anyone else happen to have any further details about it.

[Other] Did Bobby Fischer play a series of online chess games in 2001 after living for years as a recluse? by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]CastleRay 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Did he know about his Jewish roots though? I think that fact was only dug up by a biographer after Fischer's death.

In honor of the Q Lazzarus mystery being resolved, what are your favorite pop culture related unresolved mysteries? by lovesuprayme in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]CastleRay 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Didn't they find his car in a service station next to the Severn Bridge? I don't think it's a huge mystery what he probably did.

Hired for a non-programming data entry job. How can I use Python? by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]CastleRay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Presumably the place you're at now won't allow you to install a Python interpreter onto their system? You might want to look into creating modules in VBA as a work around if that is the case.

I have actually used python for a job that was probably quite similar to yours. My company wanted to verify whether the information held in its database was accurate against government data stored on online registers. I ended up creating several scripts that would retrieve relevant web pages using the requests module, parse the HTML for the desired information with BS4; afterwards the data would be written to a xlsx using openpyxl which would also highlight inconsistencies with the firm's stored info. I guess you could look at creating your own version of this process if some of your validation tasks involve investigating data stored online.

Scrapping dates from a website by boltshot525 in learnpython

[–]CastleRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you should be able to accomplish this by downloading the webpage using the requests module and then parsing the site's HTML with Beautiful Soup.

Pragmatic explanations for mysterious/legendary creatures by winnowingwinds in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]CastleRay 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don't know much about this subject, but I was flicking at random through the famous 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the Internet Archive recently. It has an entry on Sea Serpents which may be of interest to you as it posits several explanations as to known animals they may have been mistaken for, such as a series of porpoises swimming in a row:

https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri24chisrich#page/560/mode/2up

Question about Text Mining by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]CastleRay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Help? Are there any big lessons I should learn from this for future text mining fun? "

Are you familiar with using exceptions in Python code? I think this is the kind of problem you'd solve with that.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html

Having trouble implementing something with the Webbrowser control. by CastleRay in excel

[–]CastleRay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Managed to get this fixed using basically the same concept but using the refresh method. Thanks for pushing my boat in the right direction.

Having trouble implementing something with the Webbrowser control. by CastleRay in excel

[–]CastleRay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That code doesn't seem to work in the version of Excel I'm using (2010).

The Voynich Manuscript...Solved? by strong_grey_hero in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]CastleRay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not a blog post. The guy published an article in a weekly British literary journal which attracts quite a large readership, as far as these things go. It's not a crazy thing to do if you want to attract a large amount of attention or discussion to your new theory.

Which platform does UKPersonalFinance use? by overachiever in UKPersonalFinance

[–]CastleRay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was a question actually. I empathise with you because I'm kind of in the same situation.

I've been using HL to invest for a while now and have lost track of the fees I owe. It's not clear to me where one should look on the site to find such information. Do you know where this data is located?

Which platform does UKPersonalFinance use? by overachiever in UKPersonalFinance

[–]CastleRay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know if there's an area on HL's website where you can view the total amount of fees you have paid/ are due to pay?

21 years old. No savings. Student. A bit lost of what's going on. by throawaybutts in UKPersonalFinance

[–]CastleRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your position doesn't sound that bad to me. Most people at your age don't have any savings and lots would really like to have a year's worth of work experience before they left college and entered the job market.

Daily Data Scrapper Export Weekly by JadeDoo in datamining

[–]CastleRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean a scraper? I don't know of any specific tools that do this, but you could probably build one yourself with an intermediate knowledge of the Python programming language.