Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
11/01/2019
My Raspberry Pi Python Twitter bot stopped posting last night. After I had strong words with it, and told it to pick up its game I deleted the cache database file and let it rebuild the history. This is something that I really need to fix, as my PiHole shows that my bot has made approx 191,383 calls to the twitter api in the last 24 hours… touch wood I’m…
07/03/2018
My free time recently exploring one of the latest challenges from Kaggle: PASSNYC: Data Science for Good Challenge I’ve been working with Python, but considering switching to R to run k-means. My code is still a working progress so please be gentle 🙂 https://www.kaggle.com/ambiguouserror/passnyc-data-science-for-good-challenge Overview PASSNYC is a not-for-profit organization that facilitates a collective impact that is dedicated to broadening educational opportunities for New York City’s talented and underserved students.…
notepad plus plus for Linux I use notepad++ at work on a windows machine, I find it great for taking notes, and editing SQL scripts on the go. For a long time Geany has been my goto Linux file editor, but it might now get more limited use in the future now that notepad++ is available in Linux, via snap 🙂 Crazy too, that I think this is my first…
09/03/2017
Yesterday I fucked up… a little I’ve been playing with a Python script to re-arrange the films in my movie directory; it moves everything of a selected file type from directory and sub-directory to a selected directory. Useful eh? Thought I might use it to group all of my photos too. Last night I ran it on a drives root directory for all *.txt files. Let me rephrase that, I…
07/24/2017
I got thinking after my last post of why I chose Unity, and could Python be an option as a language to build games? I have much more need for Python on a daily basis… although I’m currently limited to ver 2.7 at work, I do use it for the current Feed2Twitter Raspberry Pi setup. So for the past few days I’ve been digging around searching for material and tutorials…
Here’s a script that has been in my library for a while, don’t know why I haven’t shared it before now, all credit to nearengine 🙂 This does a simple delete on all of our Reddit post history, no double delete like other options redditPurge is a simple script I wrote while learning Python. It destroys your entire Reddit history, letting you start with a clean slate or delete your…
07/13/2013
I’ve been working through GitHub for useful code, found some interesting material, but it’s time to step up my learning. After reading through this Reddit/Python thread: How did you learn Python I’ve chosen Codecademy. I’ve only recently begun, but I like the uncluttered text and being able to enter script on the site. Let’s see how long I can commit to before I become distracted with something else 😉
07/07/2013
I’m investigating the uses for MEGA, as an Android app became recently available. Considering using it for secure communication; as all data is encrypted, therefore if multiple people had a log in to the same account they could share files that could be messages. Another option is to upload the message as a file, and share a link to the file in an encrypted format, then delete the file after…