Python and R Resources for text-mining
This is just a growing collection of useful Python and R packages and resources for text-mining. It's the flavor of ML I'm working on the most, so this is mostly just for my own hassle-avoidance.
Work in progress.
Continue reading →Use Someone Else's React Component in Reagent
EDIT:
I never finished this post, but actually managed to make a different strategy work. Post to be revised later, but example working code in this repo.
Continue reading →Backup Dropbox, iCloud, etc. to git
According to the Wisdom of the Internet, you shouldn't put git repos into Dropbox (at least not without doing too-fancy things like turning Dropbox itself into a git remote, which, no), because everything changes everything else in funny complex ways and things blow up.
But if you're me, sometimes you store, like writing and such, a bunch of stuff in Dropbox (or in iCloud, where I imagine similar issues arise, or in Google Drive, or in Box, or even in bloody Microsoft's OneDrive monstrosity), and want to keep doing so because of nice things like automatic multiple-device syncronization.
Continue reading →Starting to distrust Homebrew...
Is it just me, or has Homebrew been getting super-bossy recently about how you run your machine?
Round 1: Update XCode you must, padawan...
Continue reading →Clojure basics: destructuring
I think destructuring is one of the harder things for total beginners to handle in Clojure, because the syntax is just really terse. When you get used to it, it makes the code more readable, but at the beginning, it makes the code lots less readable.
There are some good destructuring tutorials out there (listed at the end), but none with live code execution (and the ability for readers to play around and tweak stuff) via the magic of klipse. So here goes!
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