rhwk97

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by rhwk97 8y ago
if you just choose an academic lens, you can say number of citations and limit it to certain journals
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by rhwk97 8y ago
I find the functional programming crowd can be very vocal on a site like HN...can't tell you how many times I thought..."you know, I should really learn Lisp" after visiting here!
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by rhwk97 8y ago
Although not a course, I thought this had some excellent material: Practical Programming (2nd edition) An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python 3 https://pragprog.com/book/gwpy2/practical-programming
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by rhwk97 8y ago
quick note on the first link...I think graphs are done using tikz: http://blancosilva.github.io/post/2010/12/12/using-tikz-as-a...
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by rhwk97 8y ago
If anyone wants to play around with Computational Geometry and Python, I'd recommend as a great starting point: http://blancosilva.github.io/post/2014/10/28/Computational-G... Also, Apress has a coo
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by rhwk97 8y ago
FiveThirtyEight also puts their data on Kaggle, if you are interested: https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight/datasets
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by rhwk97 8y ago
My major reason for supporting legalization is that when you legalize marijuana, you decrease the incentive for police to search cars, most of the time by tricking people into giving voluntary consent, so that's a good thing. On the ot
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by rhwk97 8y ago
at the bottom of most Wikipedia pages there are lists of references, further reading and external links
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by rhwk97 8y ago
I've been looking into JAMstack...static site generators, github pages, continuous integration, aws lambdas, etc. Makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, I just got a vps and am planning on learning Golang ;-)
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by rhwk97 8y ago
I just bought "The marijuana conviction: a history of marijuana prohibition in the United States," although I don't think you'll find it on Kindle. Pick up a copy at Amazon or AbeBooks.