Month: March 2020
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
is an excellent book by Douglas Adams (isbn 978-0-330-49121-1). As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. Thi…
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
is an excellent book by Douglas Adams (isbn 978-0-330-49121-1). As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. Thi…
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Can a decision tree tell us about wine categories?
I previously wrote an overview showing how decision trees work: http://buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2019/07/decision-trees-for-feature-selection.html This time, let’s build a decision tree with some data. There are many freely available data …
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Can a decision tree tell us about wine categories?
I previously wrote an overview showing how decision trees work: http://buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2019/07/decision-trees-for-feature-selection.html This time, let’s build a decision tree with some data. There are many freely available data …
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The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
is an excellent book by Douglas Adams (isbn 978-0-330-49119-8). As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun…
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The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
is an excellent book by Douglas Adams (isbn 978-0-330-49119-8). As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun…
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Custom Bash tab completion for my program
I love Bash tab completion, and I want it for the command I am writing, so it can automatically complete parts of the command line when I run my program. Code Here is the script (install-bash-completion) I wrote to set it up (no need to be root – it in…
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Invariants and Preconditions
I tend to think about invariants and preconditions a lot. Pretty much every class has invariants, and most functions have preconditions. I don’t think they are complicated concepts, but somehow they seem to confuse people anyway, so I decided it was ti…
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Struggling with Rust to figure out the right types for a function signature
I am loving writing code in Rust. So many things about the language and its ecosystem feel so right*. * For example: ownership of objects, expressive type system, compile to native, offline API docs, immutability, high quality libraries. One of the thi…