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erictleung, 1 month ago to programming

R has fun codenames for its releases

In case you didn't know, the codenames for each release is in reference to the Peanuts comics or films

With initial research efforts from Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Martin Monkman, I helped put the full list of R version names on Wikipedia, so that an ongoing list can be updated and referenced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Version_names#Version_names)

Enjoy!

#RStats #programming #fun #comics #wikipedia

erictleung, 2 months ago to python

for any #Python user who needs a cheatsheet for dealing with f-strings.

it was useful to me to remember how to pad strings and align text quickly

https://fstring.help/cheat/

erictleung, 3 months ago to til

#TIL the source code for the Zen of Python is actually not very Pythonic!

#Python #EasterEgg #programming

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/this.py

erictleung, 3 months ago to til

#TIL about the Jastrow illusion, where two identical train track-like items will appear different

#illusions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastrow_illusion?wprov=sfla1

erictleung, 3 months ago to Baduk

"My guess is that AlphaGo’s success forced the humans to reevaluate certain moves and abandon weak heuristics. This let them see possibilities that had been missed before."

a hopeful take on what AI can do to push us to innovate

#baduk #go #ai #innovation

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/go

erictleung, 4 months ago to python

I'm more of an R programming who uses Python when it fits better.

and being seven years late, I didn't realize the built-in Python virtual environment, venv, got deprecated in 3.6.

apparently now pyenv is recommended. I've luckily used it in the past, but set up time is variable and sometimes not as straight forward, especially on a non-WSL Windows setup.

#python #programming

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-venv

erictleung, 1 year ago to programming

Really cool to see this concise way to read text from a file in Python using the built-in pathlib module.

from pathlib import Path
line_lst = Path("to/the/file.txt").read_text().splitlines()

https://stackoverflow.com/a/71631196/6873133

#Python #Programming #TextEditing #Developer #Dev