Showing off with python
2:57AM on a Monday. I have to be up at 8AM. The faster I get the job done the more sleep I get. Sounds like the kind of thing to motivate a person. TASK: Parse an access.log file and produce page visit...
View ArticleBig data and R
Yesterday, I went to a Montreal meetup about R. The event was attended by quite a few people and the good people of Bolidea offered us beer and pizza. The talk was by the Wajam team and discussed how...
View ArticleA scriptable future for the Web and home servers
I’m organizing papers today, and I keep finding dev-notes and plans for my big “home server” idea about being able to run all your “cloud services” on your own hardware with all the data protection...
View ArticleGetting started with ML in python
Next week I’m interviewing for a Data Scientist position so I figured I better brush up my machine learning skills. I found some neat youtube tutorials [1,2] on using scikit-learn so I thought this...
View ArticleGhetto CRM
Say you want to extract the names and emails from all the messages under given tag in your gmail. In my case, it’s the 60 readers who took part in the “free PDF if you buy the print version” offer. I’d...
View ArticleProblem sets ready
Sometime in mid-December I set out to create problem sets for the book. My friend Nizar Kezzo offered to help me write the exercises for Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 and I made a plan to modernize the...
View ArticleLinear algebra concept maps
I spent the last week drawing. More specifically, drawing in concept space. Drawing concept maps for the linear algebra book. Without going into too much details, the context is that the old concept...
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Git for authors
Using version control is very useful for storing text documents like papers and books. It’s amazing how easy it is to track changes to documents, and communicate these changes with other authors. In my...
View ArticleThe state of open educational resources in 2017
I spend the last couple of weeks exploring the open educational resources (OER) landscape and wanted to write down my thoughts and observations about the field. The promise of an OER “revolution” that...
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Generating ePub from LaTeX
I want to tell you about my journey to produce the ePub files for the No Bullshit Guide textbooks. This has been an epic battle with lots of technological obstacles, but I got it working in the end,...
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