a small slither of code for a noob pythonista

>>>print("Hello World")

1	>>>print("Hello World")

a small slither of code for a noob pythonista

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Block websites the hard way

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 Written by Albert

Tired of being distracted all the time. When you are connected to the internet, the temptation to visit movie streaming sites, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc… is excruciating. You cannot get any work done. There is a way to block those sites without using outside tools. In the terminal enter this:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

1	sudo nano /etc/hosts

Explanation:

sudo

sudo

is superuser. […]

Dart: a strongly-typed language from Google.

December 1, 2018December 1, 2018 Written by Albert

A strongly-typed programming language is one in which each type of data (such as integer, character, hexadecimal, packed decimal, and so forth) is predefined as part of the programming language and all constants or variables defined for a given program must be described with one of the data types. Certain operations may be allowable only with certain […]

Standard Error Stream in Python

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Written by Albert

It has been a hectic 2019 for me. I had some encumbrances that I needed to tackle; however, I turned the page and arose anew. Just dropping this important gem. It may come in handy for verbose/hackish logs.

import sys
print(app.config, file=sys.stderr)

1 2	import sys print(app.config, file=sys.stderr)

Every serious user of a UNIX or Linux operating system knows standard streams, i.e. input, standard […]

Hypothetical studies in “Music Science”

February 6, 2017February 6, 2017 Written by Albert

* A rough draft curriculum of a doctorate in “music technology” from NYU http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/technology/programs/doctoral/requirements * Jon Gosier: an expert data scientist who owns a music data business: http://gosier.org , http://audigent.com/ * Allistair Croll: has written topics on “music science” * What are some actual projects data scientists have worked on? http://bit.ly/2khrkLB * How can I […]