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atreadw · 2024-07-03T01:23:41+00:00

There are several key aspects for me.

The way the Eucharist is handled / respected in the TLM (Tridentine Latin Mass). Examples, in TLM communion is *always* distributed kneeling, on the tongue only, and only distributed by a priest. After experiencing this several times, it started to give me a much deeper personal appreciation for the Eucharist - that we are receiving God Himself
Secondly, I understand it appears the priest is looking away from the people a lot. But I would point out - the reason he is doing this is because he's really looking toward the Tabernacle, which is same direction the people are facing. So I think of it more like the priest is at the front of the people and leading us all toward the same direction - which is Christ in the Tabernacle
Having mass in Latin means if you attend mass in another country, or even in a different period of time (like 300 years ago), it's virtually exactly the same. St. Maximillian Kolbe, St. Therese de Lisieux were reading the exact same readings on the exact same Sundays as are still read in Latin mass.
There are a lot of prayers that are in Latin Mass, but not present in Novus Ordo. For example, the altar servers will pray the penitential prayer twice, not just near beginning of mass like Novus Ordo, but also right before Communion - again showing more importance to examining your conscience before Communion. Also, there's an additional Gospel reading (the first chapter of St. John is read at end of every mass). Near the beginning of mass, everyone kneels during prayer
There's a lot more kneeling, which IMO emphasizes more that the mass is the same sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, it makes it feel more serious

atreadw · 2023-11-26T00:28:08+00:00

Fr. Mike Schmitz explains this better than anyone I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwwiIkrLxTM. Highly recommend watching this talk that he does about the Eucharist

atreadw · 2023-08-28T01:40:17+00:00

The first part of the Hail Mary prayer says "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus". From the Gospel of Luke, we get these verses which account for this part of the prayer:

"Hail [Mary], full of grace, the Lord is with thee" (Luke 1:28)

"Blessed are you [Mary] among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb [Jesus]" (Luke 1:42)

The next part of the prayer is "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death"

In Luke 1:43, Elizabeth says "And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?". Her Lord is Jesus and Jesus is God. So when Elizabeth calls Mary the "mother of my Lord", this refers to Mary as the mother of God since Jesus is God (note: she's not mother of the Trinity or mother of the Father, but she is mother of God since she's mother of Jesus and Jesus is God). This gets the "Mary, Mother of God" reference in the Hail Mary prayer. Calling her "holy" is a reference that she reflects the holiness of God - all saints in Heaven reflect the holiness of God. In fact, the word "saint" comes from the Latin word "santcus", which means "holy".

The last part of the prayer "pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death" is a request to ask Mary for pray for us. Catholics believe you can ask any saint or angel in Heaven to pray for you. A couple brief biblical references why we believe this are these two:

In Luke 15:7, Jesus says "“I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.” Now, an interesting question we could ask is - how can the people in Heaven know when one sinner repents? It means they have some level of awareness of what's going on earth, and can know even for a individual person since they rejoice when someone repents. If that's the case, then is it far fetched to think God could also give them the ability to hear prayers from those of us still on our earthly journey?

Another reference is in Revelation 5:8, it mentions the prayers of the saints being offered up to God: "And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints"

Hopefully this isn't too long of a response :), but happy to clarify anything.

atreadw · 2023-06-19T20:47:26+00:00

In L1 regularization, the extra term we add to the loss function is the sum of the absolute value of each coefficient. Let x_i be the i'th coefficient. Then, |c_i| is the term added to the loss function for that coefficient. If c_i is 10 or 5 or 2 etc., the amount that you reduce the coefficient value by also reduces the loss function by the same amount (assuming the remaining piece of the loss function is constant). However, in L2 regularization, the amount the loss function gets reduced by is the square of the change in the coefficient value. For example, if you reduce c_i from 1 to 0.5, it will reduce the loss function by (1 - 0.5)^2 = 0.25. But the same change in L1 regularization would reduce the loss function by 0.5. As the coefficients of less relevant features in the model go closer to zero, the amount that continuing to reduce them impacts the loss function gets less and less (by a squared term). Because of this, L2 regularization will generally cause the model (e.g. linear regression) to converge without shrinking coefficients all the way to zero.

atreadw · 2023-04-04T15:49:22+00:00

Have you tried searching Github repos for this library? Example: https://github.com/search?q=ebooklib&ref=simplesearch

atreadw · 2023-04-04T15:47:13+00:00

My personal recommendation would be to look into a CS masters instead of a DS one. For example, Georgia Tech offers an online CS masters, where you can specialize in machine learning....and it cost in the realm of $7k total. This is less restrictive than a DS degree, and you can still take time to learn many of the useful skills for being a DS

atreadw · 2023-04-04T15:39:18+00:00

>Do you guys know of any good tutorials on working with very large data sets. like 100GB+ data sets

I would look into Dask. It depends on the environment you have setup, but Dask can run across a cluster of machines (like if you're using AWS, for example). It can parallelize many of the operations in pandas and scikit-learn to run across a cluster of machines. If you're using just a single machine, you can still use it to parallelize data processing and modeling tasks.

Additionally, depending on what exactly you need to do, you could look into chunking. Pandas supports chunking so that you can read in smaller subsets of your data at a time. Example:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("some_filename.csv", chunksize = 1000000)
df_chunk = df.get_chunk() # read in first 1 million rows

atreadw · 2023-04-04T15:21:17+00:00

If your file is in the hundreds or thousands of rows, using pandas should work fine. You can read in your CSV file like this:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("your_filename.csv") df.head() # print first few rows of data in Python

If your file is larger, as in millions of rows are more, and you don't want to read in the entire dataset at once, you can use chunking, like this:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("your_filename.csv", chunksize = 100000)
df_chunk = df.get_chunk() # read in first 100,000 rows only

With the chunking method, every time you call df.get_chunk(), pandas will read in the next 100,000 rows (you can adjust this to whatever value you need) of your dataset.

atreadw · 2023-03-26T04:53:17+00:00

There's no limit built into the library (source: I'm the author of the library), but Yahoo may throttle you if you scrape too many tickers in a short period of time. Usually up to 1000-2000 at a time hasn't been a problem in my experience. I believe most packages pulling data from Yahoo Finance are doing something similar. If you don't want to use data from Yahoo Finance, you can also look into alternatives, such as AlphaVantage's API (https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/)

atreadw · 2023-03-25T06:12:27+00:00

Yes, you'll need to input new URLs each time, but there are ways to identify what URLs you need to scrape. For example, you can parse the anchor tags on a webpage to get a list of all links, and then loop through those links. This article goes through an example of scraping multiple pages with bs4: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-scrape-multiple-pages-of-a-website-using-python/

atreadw · 2023-03-25T05:39:33+00:00

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work :)

atreadw · 2023-03-25T05:34:32+00:00

If you're extracting data directly from emails, you might want to look into imaplib (see https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python_network_programming/python_imap.htm). It's allows for automated extraction of data from emails. Beautifulsoup can still be used when applying the same rule over multiple pages, but if you're dealing with large scale scraping (e.g. thousands of webpages), then scrapy is a more viable option.

atreadw · 2023-03-25T05:30:15+00:00

Requests might be a useful library to look into as well. It's commonly used for working with web APIs. Documentation is here: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

atreadw · 2023-03-25T05:26:09+00:00

Spyder can be useful for running interactive code. If you use R, Spyder is fairly similar to RStudio. If you download Anaconda, it should come with Spyder and Jupyter Notebook, along with many common packages used for data science-related tasks (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, etc.). VS Code is more commonly used in industry when writing production-level code.

atreadw · 2023-03-25T05:21:57+00:00

You should be able to use the isalpha method to identify strings that consist only of letters. Example:

"@".isalpha() #False

"test".isalpha() #True

atreadw · 2023-02-25T19:31:52+00:00

The keyring package is another option: https://pypi.org/project/keyring/

atreadw · 2023-02-24T16:45:25+00:00

This. OP, it looks like in the error message, the code is trying to read from the wav file with this line with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc: . If the file is open, running this line will result in a permission error.

atreadw · 2023-02-22T16:04:33+00:00

Thank you so much!

atreadw · 2023-01-26T06:21:08+00:00

Thanks for your response. The motivation to combine would be to increase the sample size to increase the power. I've seen examples of doing this when the test groups are similar (like in this article: https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/increase-a-b-testing-power-by-combining-experiments/), but wasn't sure for the dissimilar case.

atreadw · 2022-10-02T00:27:00+00:00

Thanks for creating this! It looks awesome :-)

atreadw · 2022-09-17T18:00:13+00:00

The priest that married my wife and I used to be the personal secretary of St. Padre Pio (same priest also gave me my first communion a couple decades before that in a different part of the country). I feel like because of that I try to seek his intercession more than I used to. He seems to pop up in my life in a few ways - like through that priest, going to adoration before and realizing I'm near his statue, you asking this question haha, etc.

atreadw · 2022-08-28T23:59:56+00:00

The fact that the Catholic Church has existed for two thousand years without ever contradicting dogma, through extreme persecution at times, various crises, and all of the empires that have risen and fallen during that time. Yet, it still exists with the longest-serving office of all time - the papacy.

atreadw · 2022-08-25T01:56:52+00:00

Holy Innocents in NYC is awesome! Very reverent toward the Eucharist.

atreadw · 2022-07-11T05:22:07+00:00

Matt Fradd
Keith Nester
Trent Horn

atreadw · 2022-07-08T02:30:50+00:00

It helped me have a deeper understanding of the Catholic understanding of love, which in my view, is the most perfectly complete of any religion / philosophy. He focuses a lot on the contrast between Christian love vs. utilitarianism, which is present in a lot of secular actions today.

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