And now it's all this
And now it's all this
Dr. Drang
I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong
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I don’t care much about monitoring the traffic here, but analyzing web logs seemed like a good way to practice using Pandas. I used some old data analysis friends, like groupby, and made some new ones, like the vectorized str functions....
Longtime readers of this blog know I’m a sucker for calendrical calculations. So I couldn’t stop myself from doing some after reading this article by Jennifer Ouellette at Ars Technica. The article covers a recent paper on the Dresden...
I expect Fox News to make bad charts as part of its predisposition to promote right wing views. But today I saw an incredibly bad chart that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t promote its usual awful agenda. It’s terrible for politically...
Except for a short period when its original developers were unable to keep up and the app suffered badly, Castro has been my podcast player for many years. Its triage system of managing podcast episodes fits well with how I listen....
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Earlier this week, John D. Cook wrote a post about minimizing the variance of a sum of random...
Two things came together over the past few days. First was my longstanding belief that winters here in the Chicago area were snowier when I was a kid than they are now. I’m not sure why that popped back into my head, but it did. Second...
Yesterday, I drove to Champaign-Urbana for the Illinois men’s home basketball opener. Because I’m going to the CSO concert tonight, I stayed here overnight. When I started my car this morning, CarPlay connected to my phone and offered to...
I stopped charting Apple’s quarterly results back in 2019 and don’t intend to return to it, but after seeing the recent posts at Six Colors and TidBITS, I thought I’d try out a new graph.
Before going out for a bike ride this morning, I checked the Weather app to see the speed and direction of the wind. On days with a decent wind, I prefer to ride out against the wind and come back with it. Here’s what the app showed:
I got some good replies on Mastodon after Saturday’s post. Longtime friend of the blog Nathan Grigg said he’s always assumed that GPS-measured lengths would be long because no matter how straight your path, the GPS error would make it...
I did the Fall Color 5k Run and Walk at the Morton Arboretum this morning. I say “did” to downplay the fact that I don’t run races like this, I walk them. I got terrible shin splints 20+ years ago and haven’t run more than a few hundred...
I’m still experimenting with ChatGPT and Claude as proofreaders for my blog posts. Because I’ve been writing more posts lately, I’ve been learning the good and the bad more rapidly than I would have expected when I started this. Time for...
I was looking at the NFC standings yesterday, particularly the NFC North, the Chicago Bears’ division. The hated Packers are at the top of the division with a 4-1-1 record and a winning percentage of .750.
A footnote in last night’s post mentioned that the Amazon links therein had been cleaned of cruft. Today, I’ll show the simple automated way I do that.
I was talking to a friend about pencils a few weeks ago. I noticed she had a Blackwing 602 and asked her about it. She told me she never got along with mechanical pencils. The leads break too easily and the erasers don’t last—once...