Wrapping Up (Recurse Day 5)
It’s the last day of my mini-batch, although it’s not my last day at Recurse, since there’s an active alum community I’m eager to be a part of.
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Keep It Simple, Shauna (Recurse Day 4)
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Today I finally tackled making a code madlibs program.
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Macros, Finally (Recurse Day 3)
Read more → More from Duly Noted →When we left off, I’d written some rather ugly code that gave us the basic features of a madlibs program without using any macros. But the whole point of this project is to better understand lisp macros. So today I focused on refactoring my program to use macros instead.
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Simple Code vs Fancy Code (Recurse Day 2)
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Building off of yesterday’s work, today my hope was to finish my humble text-focused Madlibs program, so that I could move onto code-focused Madlibs tomorrow.
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Recurse Day 1
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Day 1 of my Recurse mini batch is complete! I spent a good portion of it meeting people and learning about the community, but I did also make some small steps on my project:
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My Plans for Recurse
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Next week I’ll be doing a mini-batch at Recurse. I’m planning to blog about it each day, and I figured I’d start by laying out my plans for the week.
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wtf is ops
Read more → More from Duly Noted →I wrote an ‘intro to operations’ guide. The ideal audience is me a week ago.
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Beware of defaults
Read more → More from Duly Noted →I spent a good portion of yesterday staring at my Django test cases and whimpering. No matter what I tried, no matter how thoroughly I flushed the database between each test case, state seemed to be persisting from test to test. “How is this happening?” I howled to my computer.
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What’s a pirate’s favorite programming language?
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Today I had the pleasure of speaking to a Mozilla study group about The Little R’er. The Little R’er is a project of mine from about a year ago - it’s basically The Little Schemer for R. Or, rather, the first few chapters of the Little Schemer for R. R is, in my opinion, a much less elegant language than Scheme and I found that the socratic method eventually broke down as a pedagogical tool. The discovery of silent recycling did not help my enthusiasm levels either.
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Can openers, Python imports, and other illusions
Read more → More from Duly Noted →There’s a body of research literature showing that people overestimate how well they can explain phenomena. Ask someone whether they understand how a can opener works, for example, and they’re likely to say they do. Ask someoneto explain how a can opener works, though, and you’re likely to get confusion, frustration, and a confession that they don’t understand as well as they thought they did.
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Django Girls
More from Duly Noted →I did an interview with Django Girls. You can read it here.
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If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source.
Read more → More from Meta-science →If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source.