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Tutorial on Parsing Techniques
I started writing a jupyter notebook explaining parsing, trying to teach people about how different parsing problems can be handled by increasingly complex techniques. What I’ve always wanted is for there to be better resources for curious beginners or people who have background in different fields to get a vertical...
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Dice Rolling and Coupon Collecing
When preparing for the workshop on scraping screen data I got distracted by trying to answer a probability question. Roll three 6 sided dice to generate a number between 3 and 18. How many rolls will it take on average in order to see every number (3,4,5…17,18) which can be...
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Most Boring Unboxing Video
All of the replacement batteries for the UPSs for our servers came in today. Other people do unboxing videos of fancy new graphics cards or liquid cooling. They’re really missing out on the best content though, dozens of sealed lead acid batteries.