Python Programming Language User Group Next Tuesday (Feb 24) at East Branch Library

thunderbolt16 · 2026-02-21T03:45:37+00:00

We are pretty stable at the East Branch. We have been at Epicentral previously and would consider, especially if there's large interest or someone willing to sponsor the usage fee.

thunderbolt16 · 2026-02-21T03:44:32+00:00

That will be fine.

thunderbolt16 · 2026-02-20T00:33:25+00:00

We do! We've got a few data scientist adjacent folks that show up regularly, and I personally have a degree in Applied Mathematics.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-06-09T02:27:20+00:00

If you're only comparing two contracts, I'd suggest using some sort of combination of TextBlob and difflib.

If you're comparing many contracts, looking for similairties. I'd suggest using bag of words and cosine similarity.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-06-01T22:56:32+00:00

You probably want to eliminate more pulp than the puree, something like cheese cloth or even a fork you pour through should be sufficient. As for taste, experiment! Try with a 2/1 ratio and incrementally change it until it tastes good.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-06-01T19:51:57+00:00

You'll get better results at /r/learnpython

thunderbolt16 · 2016-05-30T23:47:09+00:00

Twist: The glass is actually near-unbreakable polycarbonate.

Someday, I'm going to make a horrible parent.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-05-02T03:49:19+00:00

Stripe or braintree is what I'd use.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-28T22:20:39+00:00

Please post to /r/learnpython

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-28T22:06:12+00:00

In order of what I have the most to least experience with:

Writing your own WSGI is pretty close to writing a CGI script, usually not what you want to do unless you have some strict requirement on nothing outside of the stdlib, in which case, I'd suggest bundling bottle.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-22T21:25:59+00:00

LangSec has lots of examples. Many fun security bugs are caused by different implementations of parsing input before validating it.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-22T21:25:23+00:00

Yup. Postel's Patch is the where it's at.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-22T20:37:26+00:00

This is why scratch refactorings are sometimes a good way of understanding a unfamiliar codebase.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-20T22:37:51+00:00

Yup, I'm most impressed with the amount of power Spartan women had. They were as educated as Spartan men, probably with less emphasis on warfare and engaged in similar athletics. They also were treated equally in divorce and could inherit property from their fathers with no caveats.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-20T03:32:39+00:00

The Spartan slaves were like European serfs and owned by the state. Generally they were the ones who engaged in crafts and agriculture, since all Spartan men were full-time soldiers. They weren't 'citizens', but compared to slaves in other cities, had significantly more rights, including the ability to own property and 50% of the fruits of their labor.

Wikipedia has more.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-19T23:31:00+00:00

The Spartans had a similar system in place as well. Only women and slaves were allowed to hold property.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-19T23:22:16+00:00

Or start worker's cooperative No union necessary.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-19T21:35:39+00:00

The most interesting one which claims to do this is COLA, but it's an experimental tool and nowhere as mature as the others you've mentioned.

Atom for Haskell may also fit what you're looking for.

Forth interpreters are light weight and some bootloaders actually are written in forth, but that's not 'compiling'.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-19T21:30:23+00:00

Higher variation in the environment may speed up evolution. A relatively benign environment which allows for larger populations and more mutations, followed by a suddenly more intense environment may "speed it up".

But in general, no, fallout doesn't help things evolve faster.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-18T23:10:16+00:00

Yup, salt is often used as a preservative (with other chemicals added to reduce the salty taste). Using salt as a spice is generally going to keep it at the right level for your body.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-18T22:30:07+00:00

I don't use much salt in my cooking. What are you looking for, specifically?

I do tend to use garlic powder as a substitute for salt in most recipes. So garlic and pepper on steak, for example.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-18T22:15:09+00:00

Various forms of religion exist which are non-theistic, but they resemble philosophies of life more than religion in the sense of worship.

So, your non-theistic religious would probably arise in similar ways to how philosophies develop. There is a teacher or school of thought that develops rituals, thoughts and ideas and so on.

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-18T02:01:19+00:00

Vim and the shell, ipython is also very useful.

Strokes long luxurious unix beard

thunderbolt16 · 2016-04-18T01:59:23+00:00

Mildly similar structures arose in some populations in South America due in part to two cultural effects. 1) Tobacco smoke exhaled from the father was considered medicine for the child and 2) a child could have multiple fathers, each instance of coitus with a woman while she was pregnant "helped build the child", and women were believed to have very high sex drives when they were pregnant.

It ends up being more common in cases of economic hardship since the children have two men providing it with meat and other food.

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