How to stream local files using Python and 11 lines of code.

It's not working out that well.

Becoming the customer instead of the product.

Just a few lines of code and patience...

Taking part in a machine learning competition without using machine learning.

For those of us that send e-mail using the wonderful mutt and using vim as our editor, this is a neat trick I discovered yesterday.

If you are sending e-mail in format=flowed (and you should; for mutt, just add set text_flowed=yes to your .muttrc), your .vimrc file for …

This is a very simple data analysis project. The question: what does Google suggest when I look up actors or actresses names? Google Autocomplete works by taking into account the latest search terms, among other variables. If there's the slightest hint of ageism in Hollywood, specially in the case of …

A bit hacky solution to the problem of actually exploring clusters when the classes are unknown.

My knowledge of history is patchy at best. I've read Judt on the post-war Europe, digested several Preston books on the Spanish Civil War, laid my hands on the two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler (and, by extension, the Second World War) by Kershaw and a bit more. Canada, were I …

This blog uses Pelican, which is a pretty neat way of having a set of text files written in reStructuredText, or Markdown, or perhaps some other system (I haven't checked, I am comfortable with Markdown), compile them into linked HTML files and having them uploaded to your hosting via SSH …