pyedpiper
Why is generating plots so bad in Google Sheets?
I love Sheets. We use it all the time in our organization to quickly share small raw datasets or to jointly collab on some psuedo quantitative task (ie budgets, tasks, etc). But anytime I go to make a plot, be it simple bar chart or xy scatter I almost throw my laptop out the window. How can this be so much less intuitive than Excel (a fairly low benchmark...) Am I alone here? And if not, why...
Nim 1.0 Released
Balance of Payments Between States and the Federal Government
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development#Res...
Qt for Python: Making GUI's and Deployment First Class Citizens.[TalkPythontoMe]
it's the shell I always wanted. And cross platform to boot.
Alias ls -l?
aliases['ls'] = "ls -l"
Oops no I don't want that any more:
del aliases['ls']
Add dir to path:
$PATH.append('/foo/bar')
Just the awesome python syntax sugar and readbility right in the
May I never right a bash script again.
Grad school was one of my best decisions. I went to a great school that was what I call the Goldilocks size, big enough to have a great faculty, equipment, and decent funding but small enough so that collaboration was the norm and the crazy horror stories of maniacal hours and/or cutthroat competition were normally self induced. My PI was an incredibly good guy and still a close friend. I met my business partner and co-founder while working with him the lab and we're now building a company that expands on the work we did in grad school.
That being said, I saw plenty of people not having the experience I did. This was almost always because i) they didn't really like research and didn't know it until they were there or ii) they picked a PI (PI = professor/boss) that was a really bad match for their work style and personality. Finding a lab & PI that matches your personal expectations about the PhD I would say is more important than the research focus. Don't choose something you'll hate learning about but ultimately the PhD can be more about learning how to teach yourself than the skills you learn during research.
YMMV
Nuitka: A Python compiler
Python f-strings are the best syntax sugar i never knew about
I've written `"text {foo}".format(foo=foo)` so many times I've almost convinced myself that it's not that verbose. Then i discovered fstrings introduced ins 3.6: ``` >>> f"text {fpp}" 'text foo' ``` >>> mind == blown True