"Metapython includes an import hook that recognizes ".mpy" files as metapython files and performs macro definition, expansion, and code instantiation at import-time."

"Apple just has it disabled by default for some unknown reason. ... In the Keyboard & Mouse section of System Preferences there is a Keyboard Shortcuts tab." seriously?

"Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. [...] allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes."

"In this paper we present a stochastic semantics for Bigraphical Reactive Systems. A reduction and a labelled stochastic semantics for bigraphs are defined. As a sanity check, we prove that the two semantics are consistent with each other. We illustrate the expressiveness of the framework with an example of membrane budding in a biological system."

"Bigraphs are a rigorous generic model for systems of autonomous agents that interact and move among each other, or within each other. They can be specialised to very different applications. In particular, they offer a unified platform for ubiquitous systems. They are proposed as a Ubiquitous Abstract Machine, playing the foundational role for ubiquitous computing that the von Neumann machine has played for sequential computing."

x[numpy.ix_([1,3],[1,3])]
a[[1,3],:][:,[1,3]]

Ctrl-a :hardcopy -h dump_file

"Devise statistics of the video signal that are insensitive to nuisance factors
Spatio-temporal descriptors that capture the local structure around trajectories
Model the temporal evolution of the local structures"

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading". Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems."

"You know? This makes me feel lousy. If I had to name my single greatest flaw, I'd say it's dereliction of friendship. I don't actively cultivate new friendships. They either happen to me or they don't, and mostly they don't because I don't put in much effort from my side. I'm not sure why, but I think it's mostly because I find the idea of extending a hand stressful. Worse, I'm terrible at keeping in touch with old friends. After too much time without calling or emailing or texting or anything, I feel really embarrassed. And then, perversely, that embarrassment makes me more not less averse to reestablishing contact. Then a really long time passes and I'm sort of mortified by myself, but at this point there's no way I'm calling because that would mean facing up to the fact that I'm a terrible friend. This makes no sense. If a friend I haven't spoken to for years suddenly calls me up, I'm delighted. So why should I hesitate to delight old friends? Maybe they'll be mad at me? I really need to get over this. Anyway, go get a drink with a friend tonight! Call an old friend this weekend! (That's right. Later. Not today.)" (oh man, this sounds far too familiar)

"Database theory and database practice are typically the domain of computer scientists who adopt what may be termed an algorithmic perspective on their data. This perspective is very different than the more statistical perspective adopted by statisticians, scientific computers, machine learners, and other who work on what may be broadly termed statistical data analysis. In this article, I will address fundamental aspects of this algorithmic-statistical disconnect, with an eye to bridging the gap between these two very different approaches. A concept that lies at the heart of this disconnect is that of statistical regularization, a notion that has to do with how robust is the output of an algorithm to the noise properties of the input data. Although it is nearly completely absent from computer science, which historically has taken the input data as given and modeled algorithms discretely, regularization in one form or another is central to nearly every application domain that applies algorithms to noisy data. By using several case studies, I will illustrate, both theoretically and empirically, the nonobvious fact that approximate computation, in and of itself, can implicitly lead to statistical regularization. This and other recent work suggests that, by exploiting in a more principled way the statistical properties implicit in worst-case algorithms, one can in many cases satisfy the bicriteria of having algorithms that are scalable to very large-scale databases and that also have good inferential or predictive properties."

"Cubism.js is a D3 plugin for visualizing time series. Use Cubism to construct better realtime dashboards, pulling data from Graphite, Cube and other sources."

"Postgres Guide is intended to highlight best practices and great features that exist within Postgres."

"CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and the editor will optionally help you with indentation."

"Z3 is a high-performance theorem prover. Z3 supports arithmetic, fixed-size bit-vectors, extensional arrays, datatypes, uninterpreted functions, and quantifiers."

"SQLPython is a command-line interface to relational databases. It was created as an alternative to Oracle’s SQL*Plus, and can likewise be used instead of postgres’ psql or mysql’s mysql text clients. For the most part, it can be used as any other text-based SQL interface would; this document focuses on the extra capabilities."

"Remote Desktop Connection uses CONTROL+SHIFT+click as the right-click function."

"It has been fascinating to watch the ongoing reactions. There have been complaints that we have too many bots in the channel now. There have been complaints about it spamming the channel. There were several “Make them shut up!” responses. These are not reactions I have seen the other bots elicit, certainly not with such intensity. One person even complained about the name being too long, though to his credit he realized right after he said that that several other people in the channel also have very long handles.

To me, all of this seems like typical geek behaviour: something is making them uncomfortable, and so they attack it on “rational” grounds. Most likely, they aren’t even aware of the gut reaction fueling their logic. Interestingly, the intensity of emotion seemed to carry over into subsequent discussions, including one about women in the Python community. For the most part, I have not responded to the comments. I did shorten the bot’s name to “twsrs”, and I pointed out that it’s trivially easy to have the bot not say anything: don’t say TWSS."

"This is an archive about the research that was made by Erik Rose and Peter Potrowl in order to find and finally build a good Python parser for MediaWiki's syntax."

"This is a parser for MediaWiki's (MW) syntax. It's goal is to transform wikitext into an abstract syntax tree (AST) and then render this AST into various formats such as plain text and HTML."

neat

"Welcome to Emojicons, your one-stop plot of internet land for every ლ(╹◡╹ლ), ¯_(ツ)_/¯, ಠ_ಠ, and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ you can possibly imagine."

"You are outside after the rain late in the day and you see a rainbow. What is the parallax distance to the rainbow?"

nice ... "Sometimes I think that Levitt, Dubner, and their crew are basing their judgment on the “What would Robert Heinlein think” principle. ESP? Check. Absurd claims of sex differences? Check. Voting is for suckers? Check. Our climate problems solved by the good old American knowhow of a genius billionaire who got a Ph.D. at age 23 and now has a plan to save the world and make another fortune? Check, check, check, check, check."

"Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, mostly written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, FFTs, and string processing."

"So treating dads and mom the same (tenure clock extensions, course reductions for all faculty, regardless of gender) really isn't treating them the same at all -- because there's a higher chance that dads can physically use the extra time for research while moms are still brain dead from round-the-clock nursing and infant childcare. By my third kid, I finally figured out that the best strategy was NOT to use maternity leave right after childbirth; instead, I taught, and negotiated to bank the maternity leave time for the following year, when I was rested enough to make the most of that time to write my next book." [amy zegart]

"This was, for me, just a little thing. But it was the last straw because when I read Facebook's explanation of why this was, or wasn't, counter to their policy, I realized that with Facebook, you cannot tell the difference.

For any particular appalling breach of personal privacy you can never guess whether it was something that they will defend (and then do again), or something that they will apologize for (and then do again anyway). The repeated fuckups for which they are constantly apologizing are indistinguishable from their business model."

"Often I'll be in the middle of something, with a dirty work tree, when it's time to leave for the day. Then I'll just commit everything with the subject WIP ("work-in-progress"). First thing the next morning I'll git-reset HEAD^ and continue where I left off.

So the model is that the current head is usually a terrible mess, accumulating changes as it moves forward in time. When I'm done, I will merge the topic into master and run the tests. ..."

"A version of the python-datetime module which deeply cares about timezone
(instead of ignoring the problem). The module automatically detects your
current timezone using a variety of different methods.

The module also includes extra functionality;

* Full integration with pytz (just give it the string of the timezone!)
* Proper support for going to/from Unix timestamps (which are in UTC!).
* Smart Parsing which attempts to accept all formats."

"Here's the problem: To this way of thinking, the triumph of enlightenment liberalism is always inevitable. Now it’s demographics that's the inexorable force (I debunk that argument here); in the 1960s, it was the certainty that Americans would never consent to give up their big-government perks. And yet, somehow, alongside the ordinary tacking of American political preference between Democrats and Republicans, conservatism continues to thrive. That's because power begets power: Democrats can be counted on to compromise with conservative nuttiness, and the media can be counted on to normalize it. And it's because there will always be millions of Americans who are terrified of social progress and of dispossession from whatever slight purchase on psychological security they've been able to maintain in a frightening world. And because there will always be powerful economic actors for whom exploiting such fear, uncertainty and doubt pays (and pays, and pays).

Conservatism is not getting crazier, and it's not going away, either. It's just getting more powerful. That's a fact that a reality-based liberal just has to accept – and, from it, draw strength for the fight."

"The Family Game of Visual Perception"