Monday, September 23, 2019

listen notes the best podcast search engine

https://www.listennotes.com/#numbers
a solopreneur podcast search engine

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b
a solopreneur stack

Sometimes we can’t even get the basics of Cybersecurity correct

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/sometimes-we-cant-even-get-the-basics-of-cybersecurity-correct-2e8c065d9455
A truly appalling case study of getting password storage wrong. 

From Pandas-wan to Pandas-master

https://medium.com/unit8-machine-learning-publication/from-pandas-wan-to-pandas-master-4860cf0ce442
The pandas way

Moving beyond console.log() — 8 Console Methods You Should Use When Debugging JavaScript and Node

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/moving-beyond-console-log-8-console-methods-you-should-use-when-debugging-javascript-and-node-25f6ac840ada
actually 5 points, 8 function calls. 

Sunday, September 22, 2019

30 Helpful Python Snippets That You Can Learn in 30 Seconds or Less

https://towardsdatascience.com/30-helpful-python-snippets-that-you-can-learn-in-30-seconds-or-less-69bb49204172
nice, small snippets that help you "think in python"

10 Life-Changing Habits You Can Form in 66 Days

https://forge.medium.com/10-life-changing-habits-you-can-form-within-66-days-cde61237577
It's never too late to start

The 5 Classification Evaluation metrics every Data Scientist must know

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-5-classification-evaluation-metrics-you-must-know-aa97784ff226
Good introduction to classification metrics

Designing speaker crossovers and filters without SigmaStudio

https://www.hifiberry.com/blog/designing-speaker-crossovers-and-filters-without-sigmastudio/
So with modern, cheap class D amps, is biamping better than traditional passive crossovers?

Cascadia Code

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code/
If I used Visual Studio Code, I'd give this a shot.

The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc
Yes, open source is that vital to the modern world.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The Top Programming Languages 2019

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-top-programming-languages-2019
Python by a length. 

Meet the Man at the Controls of the World’s Largest Steam Locomotive

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-drives-the-biggest-train
so how do I get a gig like this?

The truth about RVs

https://www.curbed.com/2019/9/18/20870828/rv-camper-repairs-poor-quality
These words are true. 

4 Awesome Tips for Enhancing Jupyter Notebooks

https://towardsdatascience.com/4-awesome-tips-for-enhancing-jupyter-notebooks-4d8905f926c5
Dark themes!

Supervisord Introduction

http://supervisord.org/introduction.html
a way to centrally manage linux process execution. 

another hosted forms provider

https://admin.typeform.com/
another hosted forms provide like wufoo or google forms. 

Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971098
from the HackerNews folks. 

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Whatever happened to Six Sigma?

https://qz.com/work/1635960/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma/
We still teach six-sigma at Emory, but looks like most folks have moved on to agile. 

Digital TV Antenna Selector

http://www.dennysantennaservice.com/digital_tv_antenna.html
looks solid, but the website could use a new skin. 

Settings to declutter, emojify and prettify your terminal (iTerm2 & ZSH)

https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/declutter-emojify-and-prettify-your-iterm2-terminal/
Some iTerm2 hacks

Light and Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes Recipe

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/06/light-and-fluffy-pancakes-recipe.html
takes a bit more work

Curl Cookbook

https://catonmat.net/cookbooks/curl
how to do most anything in cURL

Minimal Pandas Subset for Data Scientists

https://towardsdatascience.com/minimal-pandas-subset-for-data-scientists-6355059629ae
the parts of pandas you really need

Top 10 Chrome Extensions Every Developer Likes

https://dev.to/shijiezhou/top-10-chrome-extensions-every-developer-likes-3ehk
I like the idea of showing tracking pixels. 

AWS Lambda Cold Start Language Comparisons, 2019 edition

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-lambda-cold-start-language-comparisons-2019-edition-%EF%B8%8F-1946d32a0244
No surprise that node's pretty fast. 

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
Kinda inflamatory, but there's some meat there.

Using the DOM like a Pro

https://itnext.io/using-the-dom-like-a-pro-163a6c552eba
Do we really need JQuery? Not with new native JavaScript calls.

Terraform vs CloudFormation

https://medium.com/@endofcake/terraform-vs-cloudformation-1d9716122623
Terraform keeps state

Friday, September 6, 2019

The Black-Scholes formula, explained

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-black-scholes-formula-explained-9e05b7865d8a
The formula that makes all options possible. 

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
$1B from horseracing?

Deploy your projects to Github Pages with GitHub Actions

https://dev.to/pierresaid/deploy-node-projects-to-github-pages-with-github-actions-4jco
More on the new GitHub Actions workflows.

Designing 3D Printable Mechanisms in OpenSCAD

https://medium.com/@urish/designing-3d-printable-mechanisms-in-openscad-5838dcb65b39
I need to download OpenSCAD.

Why Smart People Should Read Fewer Books And listen to more podcasts.

https://medium.com/personal-growth/smart-people-should-read-fewer-books-and-listen-to-more-podcasts-87c4fa2bfaf0
I know my favorite podcasts are interviews.

The Easy Way to Do Advanced Data Visualisation for Data Scientists

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-easy-way-to-do-advanced-data-visualisation-for-data-scientists-bbc852e26fb6
A python library that hopefully takes the pain out of D3.js

AI Search Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know

https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-search-algorithms-every-data-scientist-should-know-ed0968a43a7a
I see trees.. Trees everywhere!

Uncomputable Numbers

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/uncomputable-numbers-ee528830d295
not turing-complete stuff

Regex Cross­word

https://regexcrossword.com/
For the truly sadistic

The Things That Mathematics Cannot Explain

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/the-things-that-mathematics-cannot-explain-a9e5ab3ae96a
Article centering on the golden ratio, and phi

15 Signs Your Life is More on Track Than You Think it is

https://psiloveyou.xyz/15-signs-your-life-is-more-on-track-than-you-think-it-is-c41bcf521d6
Be your own person

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

A 2-Year Study of More Than 5,000 People Shows This 1 Activity Destroys Your Emotional and Physical Health

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-2-year-study-of-more-than-5-000-people-shows-this-1-activity-destroys-your-emotional-and-physical
run away! run away!

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f
Dr. Nash couldn't have done better. 

25 Interesting Books for Math People and Designers

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/25-interesting-books-for-math-people-and-designers-1c7ffcebb66a
interesting double-headed list

How JavaScript Works

https://medium.com/better-programming/how-javascript-works-1706b9b66c4d
down and ditry

Say bye to downtime with real time on-call incident management

https://bellme.io/
alternative to pagerduty

The Complete Guide to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-complete-guide-to-time-series-analysis-and-forecasting-70d476bfe775
correlation and seasonality, etc. 

2018 College Return on Investment

https://public.tableau.com/profile/dallin8725#!/vizhome/CollegeReturnonInvestment_0/CollegeReturnonInvestment
gaTech is #12

Beyond Agile: the Studio Model

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/28/agile-and-the-studio-model/#d9d6fa78de95
Sounds more like Brooks' surgeon model. 

10 Intriguing Public REST APIs For Your Next Project

https://dev.to/camerenisonfire/10-intriguing-public-rest-apis-for-your-next-project-2gbd
interesting easy APIs

Monday, September 2, 2019

An easy introduction to Pytorch for Neural Networks

https://towardsdatascience.com/an-easy-introduction-to-pytorch-for-neural-networks-3ea08516bff2
getting started with pytorch

Terraform Modules to stay DRY

https://medium.com/@fellowshipofone/terraform-modules-to-stay-dry-677b899a4152
modularize your terraform builds

13 Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/13-classic-mathematics-books-for-lifelong-learners-7ec2759142da
so many books, so little time

Data Scientists, The 5 Graph Algorithms that you should know

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-scientists-the-five-graph-algorithms-that-you-should-know-30f454fa5513
Connect the dots

You should not run your mail server because mail is hard.

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
I've run email servers before, and yes, it's hard.