April 17, 2017 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for April 17th

Statistical Mistakes and How to Avoid Them | Hacker News –
Adrian Sampson: Statistical Mistakes and How to Avoid Them –
A curated list of various freelancing websites | Hacker News –
The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library –
PDF Clown | Open Source PDF Library for Java and .NET –
Welcome to PyInstaller official website — PyInstaller – PyInstaller is a program that freezes (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris and AIX. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with Python 2.7 and 3.3—3.5, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility.
How We Built r/Place | Hacker News –
Building a r/place in a weekend –

April 20, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for April 19th through April 20th

These are my links for April 19th through April 20th:

February 4, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

February 3, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

September 10, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Parsing pdf files with Python and PDFMiner | Quant Corner –
Manipulating PDFs with Python – Tutorial – Binpress – <blockquote>There are some nasty PDFs out there, but there are several tools you can use to get what you need from them. Python enables you to get inside and scrape, split, merge, delete, and crop just about whatever you find, and I'll show you how.</blockquote>
dpapathanasiou/pdfminer-layout-scanner · GitHub – <blockquote>pdfminer-layout-scanner – A more complete example of programming with PDFMiner, which continues where the default documentation stops</blockquote>
The Hardest Program I’ve Ever Written – journal.stuffwithstuff.com –
Lovefield – Lovefield is a relational database for web apps.
It is written in JavaScript and works cross-browser.
It provides SQL-like APIs that are fast, safe, and easy to use.

These are my links for July 20th through July 24th:

Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying? | Hacker News -
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures | Hacker News -
The language of choice - Propositional logic was discovered by Stoics around 300 B.C., only to be abandoned in later antiquity and rebuilt in the 19th century by George Boole’s successors. One of them, Charles Peirce, saw its significance for what we now call logic circuits, yet that discovery too was forgotten until the 1930s. In the ’50s John McCarthy invented conditional expressions, casting the logic into the form we’ll study here; then in 1986 Randal Bryant repeated one of McCarthy’s constructions with a crucial tweak that made his report “for many years the most cited paper in all of computer science, because it revolutionized the data structures used to represent Boolean functions” (Knuth).1 Let’s explore and code up some of this heritage of millennia, and bring it to bear on a suitable challenge: playing tic-tac-toe.
Then we’ll tackle a task that’s a little more practical: verifying a carry-lookahead adder circuit. Supposedly logic gets used all the time for all kinds of serious work, but for such you’ll have to consult the serious authors; what I can say myself, from working out the code to follow, is that the subject offers a fun playground plus the most primitive form of the pun between meaning and mechanism.

You’re encouraged to read with this article’s code cloned and ready