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2019-03-10

Photos Library backup using python and launchd

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The problem at hand We use a large, external drive to store the household Photos library (Photos as in Apple Photos.app). The external dri...
2019-02-16

Trimming time series with xarray

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There are many times when a data set starts and/or ends at an inconvenient time. My most common experience with this is obtaining an observa...
2019-01-21

Best Python resources for 2019

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After listening to Talk Python to Me 194, I started thinking about what I would recommend to people who are getting started with python. It...
2019-01-10

In-place upgrade from python 3.6 to 3.7

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Based on reports Python Bytes and from [here] and [there] it seems like 3.7 is generally faster than 3.6. So, I decided to try it. On one...
2018-06-04

On Microsoft acquiring GitHub

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In the news today is that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub ( Pocket Link  to Verge). That's a big deal for a lot of big (and small) open so...
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2018-05-28

What is aerosol radiative forcing?

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There is a lot of research about the climate impact of aerosols. One of the fundamental measures of the climate impact is the "radiativ...
2012-12-29

Joseph Romm raves about Reagan, balks at Barrack: Figures of speech make and break communication

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I have recently read Joseph Romm's new book, Language Intelligence, which is really a brief review of rhetoric. It introduces modern r...
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