Month: January 2019
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xkcd-style plots in MatPlotLib
Most programmers I know are familiar with xkcd, the webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. In order to create diagrams for my machine learning book, I wanted a way to create something I could have fun with. I discovered that Pytho…
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xkcd-style plots in MatPlotLib
Most programmers I know are familiar with xkcd, the webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. In order to create diagrams for my machine learning book, I wanted a way to create something I could have fun with. I discovered that Pytho…
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London Python Meetup January 2019 – Async Python and GeoPandas
It was a pleasure to go to the London Python Meetup organised by @python_london. There were plenty of friendly people and interesting conversations. I gave a talk “Making 100 million requests with Python aiohttp” (slides, Blog post) explaining the basi…
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Run bash inside any version of Linux using Docker
Docker is useful for some things, and not as useful as you think for others. Here’s something massively useful: get a throwaway bash prompt inside any version of any Linux distribution in one command: docker run -i -t –mount “type=bind,src=$HOME/Deskt…
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Windows missing from grub menu after Ubuntu install
Windows was missing from my grub menu after I installed Ubuntu. Fortunately it was fixed by running: sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and rebooting. Phew.