SQL for Beginners

SQL for Beginners
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Learn the basics of SQL with fun data from ABC’s hit show The Bachelor Rachel Koenig Apr 15 · 11 min read After studying data…

May 27, 2020 at 03:27PM
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String Formatting in Python — 6 Things to Know About f-strings

String Formatting in Python — 6 Things to Know About f-strings
Photo by Samuel Ramos on Unsplash Use f-strings to improve your string literals’ readability Yong Cui, Ph.D. May 10 · 7 min read When we learn any programming…

May 27, 2020 at 02:48PM
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Understand Python’s Iterators and Iterables and Create Custom Iterators

Understand Python’s Iterators and Iterables and Create Custom Iterators
Photo by Tine Ivanič on Unsplash Iteration is one of the most important concepts in Python. Two terms that pertain to iteration are iterators and iterables.…

May 27, 2020 at 01:42PM
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Quick Python Tip: Suppress Known Exception Without Try Except

Quick Python Tip: Suppress Known Exception Without Try Except
Handle known exceptions in a more elegant way in Python. Christopher Tao May 24 · 5 min read It is very common to use the try ... except ... block to handle…

May 27, 2020 at 12:41PM
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Removing Duplicates in Python

Removing Duplicates in Python
Duplicate removal is a common problem that often causes significant issues across industries. For example, if a company’s marketing team accidentally imported…

May 27, 2020 at 12:34PM
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The Art of ‘One-Lining’ in Python

The Art of ‘One-Lining’ in Python
Salvador Aleguas Apr 23 · 4 min read When multiple lines just aren’t cool enough Photo by Marcus Cramer on Unsplash ‘One-Lining’ is not simply compressing code…

May 27, 2020 at 11:41AM
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Python Functions: Lambdas, Closures, Decorators, and Currying

Python Functions: Lambdas, Closures, Decorators, and Currying
Understand four advanced function concepts in Python Yong Cui, Ph.D. Apr 22 · 5 min read Photo by Tim Swaan on Unsplash . Python functions are a block of code…

May 25, 2020 at 09:42AM
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The Kyoto School of Philosophy

The Kyoto School of Philosophy
Soon after Nishida Kitaro’s appointment at Kyoto Imperial University in 1913, a regular circle of students began to meet with the new professor, often at his…

May 19, 2020 at 05:14PM
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Let’s bury the hustle – Signal v. Noise

Let’s bury the hustle – Signal v. Noise
I love Gary Vaynerchuk dearly. So much of his message about patience and perseverance is completely in line with how I view the world. But I can’t take any more…

May 15, 2020 at 07:11PM
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Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory

Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.” This is a line from John Green’s young-adult book Looking for Alaska . It’s pretty, and melancholy, and very…

May 15, 2020 at 07:02PM
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Don’t do it at runtime. Do it at design time. – freeCodeCamp

Don’t do it at runtime. Do it at design time. – freeCodeCamp
Photo by Amanda Flavell on Unsplash Long ago a wise old developer gave me a piece of advice that I didn’t fully appreciate until very recently. We were in a…

May 15, 2020 at 06:53PM
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Organizing Your Git Pull Request

Organizing Your Git Pull Request
Gonzalo Bañuelos Feb 5 · 8 min read Succinct PRs Git Reviewed The better we present our code for review, the more likely the reviewer will be engaged with a…

May 15, 2020 at 06:38PM
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Reference Fields in Odoo

Reference Fields in Odoo
By: Ajmal JK 12/02/2020 Reference Fields in Odoo Odoo 13 Odoo has different types of fields like Character, Integer, Boolean, etc. Also, have the relational…

May 15, 2020 at 06:33PM
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Excel to Python

Excel to Python
Building front-end Excel workbooks for Python tools James Briggs May 1 · 6 min read Photo by M. B. M. on Unsplash D uring the Build 2016 conference, Microsoft…

May 14, 2020 at 07:30PM
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Boost your efficiency and process Excel-files with Python

Boost your efficiency and process Excel-files with Python
Load, transform, modify and save Excel-files with Python to improve your reporting processes Benedikt Droste Nov 1, 2019 · 5 min read If you work with data, you…

May 14, 2020 at 07:06PM
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What Is Zorn’s Lemma?

What Is Zorn’s Lemma?
Maths and Musings Apr 23 · 5 min read The quick and dirty guide to one of the stranger mathematical curiosities. Above: an illustration of the Axiom of Choice.…

May 14, 2020 at 06:00PM
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Do Not Use “+” to Join Strings in Python

Do Not Use “+” to Join Strings in Python
A comparison of the approaches for joining strings in Python, using “+” and join() method. Christopher Tao May 10 · 5 min read When I start to use Python, it is…

May 11, 2020 at 10:43AM
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A Beginner’s Guide to Python List Comprehensions

A Beginner’s Guide to Python List Comprehensions
matrix = [[x for x in range(1,4)] for y in range(1,4)]

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GoodBye Linux : the next OS

GoodBye Linux : the next OS
Apr 25 · 2 min read The server operating system has not changed in 50 years Our current server operating systems have not changed in 50 years and do not reflect…

May 9, 2020 at 01:19PM
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How Zoom Beat the Tech Giants

How Zoom Beat the Tech Giants
Eric Ravenscraft May 1 · 5 min read Photo: Maja Hitij/Getty Images On Wednesday, Google made its premium videoconferencing app, Google Meet, free for everyone .…

May 7, 2020 at 08:40AM
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Automate Your (Boring!) Excel Reporting with Python!

Automate Your (Boring!) Excel Reporting with Python!
There’s no escaping Excel — and that’s ok! Excel is everywhere. There’s no escaping it, even with powerful tools like Python at your disposal. And that’s ok!…

May 7, 2020 at 08:35AM
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Parsing XML Data in Python

Parsing XML Data in Python
Extensible Mark up Language (XML) is a mark up language that encodes data in a human and machine readable format. XML is used in a variety of programs for…

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Online Learning Was Supposed to Democratize Education. Coronavirus Shows It Hasn’t.

Online Learning Was Supposed to Democratize Education. Coronavirus Shows It Hasn’t.
OneZero spoke to teachers worried about students being left behind Sarah Emerson Apr 9 · 6 min read Photo: mtreasure/Getty Images O ne afternoon in March,…

May 7, 2020 at 08:35AM
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Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him

Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him
The election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president’s erratic briefings have the G.O.P. worried about a Democratic…

May 4, 2020 at 11:04AM
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Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not

Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not
The first diagnosis of the coronavirus in the United States occurred in mid-January, in a Seattle suburb not far from the hospital where Dr. Francis Riedo, an…

May 4, 2020 at 10:43AM
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The American Economy is Dying

The American Economy is Dying
See that chart above? The line plunging into the abyss? That’s an economy having a heart attack and dying. The line is GDP. It just fell to about -5%, from 2%.…

May 2, 2020 at 12:05PM
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A Complete Beginners Guide to Document Similarity Algorithms

A Complete Beginners Guide to Document Similarity Algorithms
Learn the code and math behind Euclidean Distance, Cosine Similarity and Pearson Correlation to power recommendation engines Chris May 1 · 6 min read Photo by…

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What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine

What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus…

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