JSON Objects in Python

JSON Objects in Python
Java Script Object Notation (JSON) is a light weight data format with many similarities to python dictionaries. JSON objects are useful because browsers can…

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The Anarchist Abstractionist — Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

The Anarchist Abstractionist — Who was Alexander Grothendieck?
Jørgen Veisdal Apr 2 · 25 min read “The greatest mathematician of the 20th century” — Le Monde M athematician Alexander Grothendieck was born in 1928 to…

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Automate These 3 (Boring!!) Excel Tasks with Python!

Automate These 3 (Boring!!) Excel Tasks with Python!
No More Opening Hundreds of Excel Files Nik Piepenbreier Mar 26 · 4 min read Let’s learn how to automate some boring Excel tasks! Source: Nik Piepenbreier Excel…

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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome

Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome
A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977. In January, scientists deciphered a piece of…

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Nice answer to a Quora question about learning

Answer by Roshan Choxi to How do I learn to code? What language should I start with? http://qr.ae/zQAvi 


1. Focus on habits, not goals
2. Learning alone is painful
3. Build things

THE MAN IN THE ARENA

" It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  "

by Theodore Roosevelt

Money As Debt-Full Length Documentary

Interesting Book

End of year action

Quantitative Easing Explained

Summer Rerun: Debunking the Notion that Unions Hurt Productivity

Summer Rerun: Debunking the Notion that Unions Hurt Productivity

http://www.artmarcovici.com/rat-traders

http://www.artmarcovici.com/rat-traders

- Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
- The Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
- Alice: "I don't much care where."
- The Cat: "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go." Alice: "…so long as I get somewhere."
- The Cat: "Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough."

Motivational...Period!

Are we approaching the end of up move

Interestingly, the aggressive sectors are rotating and defensive are rising

Let me see if I understand all this...

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.



IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY

YOU GET A JOB, A DRIVERSLICENSE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, CREDIT CARDS, SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTHCARE, A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON AND IN MANY INSTANCES YOU CAN VOTE.

EUR/USD

There’s a surgeon, an architect and an economist. The surgeon said, ‘Look, we’re the most important. God’s a surgeon because the very first thing God did was to extract Eve from Adam’s rib.’ The architect said, ‘No, wait a minute, God is an architect. God made the world in seven days out of chaos.’ The economist smiled, ‘And who made the chaos?’