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The Endeavour
Category: Technology
Date: November 02, 2009
Website address: http://www.johndcook.com/blog
Description: Ideas on math, software development, statistics, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
Submitter:
Name: johndcook
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Woodpeckers
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:48:14 +0000
From The Dip: A woodpecker can peck twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can peck twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. ...
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Weekend miscellany
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:39:43 +0000
Every weekend I post a list of miscellaneous links. Sometimes these links fall into categories, as they did on June 26. Other times, like this week, they’re just an eclectic assortment of links. Free software for opening hundreds of file types Actor career trajectories Podcast: Travels in a ma...
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Windows XP and Ubuntu start-up music
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:05:25 +0000
I just realized that the start-up music for Ubuntu is a variation on the start-up music for Windows XP. (You can hear the Ubuntu theme in this video at around 0:10. The Windows XP theme is in this video at around 1:16.) If you don’t hear the similarity, concentrate on the rhythm rather than th...
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What does this code do?
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:37:29 +0000
At the SciPy 2010 conference, a speaker showed several short code samples and asked us what each sample did. The samples were clearly written, but we had no comments to provide context. This was the last sample. def what( x, n ): if n < 0: [...]...
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e-book formats
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:43:42 +0000
ManyBooks.net has nearly 28,000 free e-books available for download. Each book is available in 23 different formats. I wondered what software they used to create so many formats and how popular each format is. The site answers both these questions. This page lists the software used and this page lis...