Stephen Hucker – Page 3

Talking to Strangers

A very entertaining book, but I feel it doesn’t really go anywhere other then to say what we already know.
– strangers lie, and we are not very good at detecting this.

It was like listening to a very long episode of Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast. Always entertaining, but in this case without a strong actionable conclusion.

Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-09-2019

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I am listening

I have been reading a few books or I should say listening to audio books.

Thank You for My Service cover art — The autobiography of Mat Best by Mat Best, a very funny anti-PC book about his life so far. Inspiring, and more importantly funny. Well worth listening too. Just like his YouTube channel –> https://www.youtube.com/user/MBest11x

Funny 🙂 and inspiring because he created a YouTube empire and a coffee company, all the while having a lot of fun

The Terminal List cover art — The first in a trilogy of books about a navy seal written by a former navy seal.
There is an almost pornographic level of detail about the weapons used by the protagonist of the story. The plot is enjoyable. Well worth a listen, but I don’t think they match the Bourne series or Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan books & movies

The third book is Savage Son.

Amazon.com: True Believer: A Novel (2) (Terminal List ... — The first in a trilogy of books about a navy seal written by a former navy seal.
There is an almost pornographic level of detail about the weapons used by the protagonist of the story. The plot is enjoyable. Well worth a listen, but I don’t think they match the Bourne series or Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan books & movies

The third book is Savage Son.

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R 4.0

Post author By Stephen
Post date April 24, 2020
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R 4.0 is out Friday, April 24 (American time), so Saturday for me.
It seems I will have to install all my packages for R again. To find out what packages you have, run this R code:

ip <- as.data.frame(installed.packages()[,c(1,3:4)])
rownames(ip) <- NULL
ip <- ip[is.na(ip$Priority),1:2,drop=FALSE]
print(ip, row.names=FALSE)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38390548/how-to-uninstall-r-completely-from-os-x

To uninstall R:
1. Delete the R app in the applications folder and empty the trash.
2. sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/R.framework

Now, install R 4.0

Change Log

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Korean Englishman 영국남자

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Real Python

Just purchased a new book on Python to get me through the CO-VID-19 situation.

https://realpython.com/products/python-basics-book/

At USD $39 it is a reasonable price, but with the drop in the Australian dollar this comes to AUD $63 …. for a PDF 🙁

So why buy it?
– I don’t want to wait for the physical book which is months away.
– I am no longer twenty, the font in some books is too small making it hard to read.
But with a PDF I can read it on a 24″ monitor next to my main 29″ monitor so no problems with font size.
– The content is really good. The Real Python site has many excellent articles on python that have helped me. So this is my way of supporting their free content.

The book uses Python 3.8
I use Anaconda Python which is currently at version 3.7 So I have to install a 3.8 environment.
In Conda you can do this by:

$ conda create -n py38 python=3.8

Useful links for my purchase:

– https://realpython.com/lessons/python-basics-book-downloads/

– https://realpython.com/python-basics/resources/

– https://github.com/realpython/python-basics-exercises

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Convert PDF pages to JPEGs using R

Post author By Stephen
Post date March 29, 2020
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I often get PDFs which have interesting images in them, but the problem is how to extract them?
This R Code will find every PDF in the current folder and covert each page to a 200 dpi JPEG

library(tidyverse)
library(pdftools)
library(fs)

# Uses the fs library to list all files ending in PDF in the current directory and store them in file_list

file_list <- dir_ls(glob = "*.pdf")

# The eqivualent of a FOR loop, it iterates through each element of file_list and converts each PDF page to a 200dpi jpg using the pdftools library
lapply(file_list, FUN = function(files) {
  pdf_convert(files, format = "jpeg",dpi = 200)
})

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49941158/how-do-i-pull-in-multiple-pdfs-into-pdf-convert-using-r-and-pdftools-package

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Get Lucky – Russian Style

Post author By Stephen
Post date March 25, 2020
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The Red Army (Police?) Choir version of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky.
A real hoot … I couldn’t stop laughing for the first few times I watched it.

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The Handmaiden (2016)

Just finished watching the 2016 Korean film The Handmaiden.
It is a beautiful film to watch and the soundtrack is very well done, particularly: IMI ONEUN SORI (임이 오는 소리) The Sound Of You Coming

The Sound Of You Coming from The Handmaiden (2016) film

IMI ONEUN SORI (임이 오는 소리) The Sound Of You Coming

(Gain) Like the sound of you coming I hear something from somewhere A sound that pinches my heart	(Gain) 임이 오는 소리 같이 어디서 들리는 소리 내 가슴을 조이는 그 소리

(Minseo & Gain) But you’re not coming, even when the night passes My sad heart doesn’t know how to stop Just waiting for the sound of you to come Just waiting for the sound of you to come	(Minseo & Gain) 그러나 오지 않네 이 밤이 지나도록 안타까운 내 마음은 그칠 줄 모르고 임이 오는 소리만 기다려져 임이 오는 소리만 기다려져

(Minseo) In my waiting heart Joy overflows You have found me, you’re coming over there	(Minseo) 기다리는 내 마음에 기쁨이 넘쳐 흘러라 그대 나를 찾아서 저기 오네

(Minseo & Gain) Holding onto blue dreams, holding onto happiness My heart that is waiting is blooming Hurry and come, I’ve been waiting Let’s dream a happy dream, just like long ago	(Minseo & Gain) 푸른 꿈 가득 안고 행복을 가득 안고 기다리는 내 마음에 꽃을 피우네 어서 와요 그대여 기다렸어요 행복한 꿈을 꿔요 옛날 같이

Holding onto blue dreams, holding onto happiness My heart that is waiting is blooming	푸른 꿈 가득 안고 행복을 가득 안고 기다리는 내 마음에 꽃을 피우네

Just waiting for the sound of you to come Just waiting for the sound of you to come	임이 오는 소리만 기다려져 임이 오는 소리만 기다려져

https://lyricstranslate.com /en/imi-oneun-sori-임이-오는-소리-sound-you-coming-임이-오는-소리.html

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Web Links for March 2020

R

Data Science for Psychologists – ”this book provides an introduction to data science that is tailored to the needs of psychologists”
The Composer of Plots • patchwork The goal of patchwork is to make it ridiculously simple to combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.
A curated list of awesome ggplot2 tutorials, packages etc.
Package R in Docker Containers • containerit
Apple Health Export Part I – Can I Blog Too
Load Apple Health Kit export.xml file in R then analyze and visualize Steps Data using R. See the full post here
Analyze and visualize your iPhone’s Health app data in R | Taras Kaduk
GitHub – deepankardatta/AppleHealthAnalysis: A R package to analyse exported Apple Health XML data
Web Scraping Javascript Content – Can I Blog Too
An Implementation of Narcissism in R – Can I Blog Too
Working with New Haven Area Census Data Using R – Can I Blog Too
Guilford Demographics – Can I Blog Too

Materials for Introduction to Data Science in the Tidyverse, a two-day workshop @ rstudio::conf 2020
R for Excel Users
Two-table verbs • dplyr
R Studio Conf 2020 Slides for rstudio::conf 2020
TEACUPS, GIRAFFES, & STATISTICS
Chapter 15 Join two tables | STAT 545 More of the above, but part of an introductory STATS course
Happy Git and GitHub for the useR
Statistical Rethinking 2nd edition – 15 March 2020
Australian football (AFL) statistics
Web Scraping Product Data in R with rvest and purrr
Data journalism training materials
maps_Spain· aaumaitre/maps_Spain · GitHub
https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2019/04/bivariate-maps-with-ggplot2-and-sf/
Beautiful thematic maps with ggplot2 (only) | Timo Grossenbacher – OLD method
GitHub – r-lib/conflicted: An alternative conflict resolution strategy for R
Data journalism training materials
conveRt to R: the short coursej
R for the Rest of Us on Twitter: “Great example of the generosity of the #rstats community, sharing code to help others learn from.… “
While we’re at it, here are three blocks of #rstats code to:
1) Scrape data on number of Coronavirus cases by day
2) Do the same for cases by day for SARS in 2003
3) Plot them both and export the image
https://gist.github.com/johnburnmurdoch/bb2342ea81d3b1ce598084cfc626f390

Python

fastpages | An easy to use blogging platform with support for Jupyter Notebooks.
Python for Beginners – YouTube 44 videos 405,440 views Last updated on 19 Sep 2019
Microsoft series for learning Python*
Ship better Python software, faster blog about putting python into production for data science
Python | NickZeng|曾广宇
Switching Between Tidyverse and Pandas for Tabular Data
Tidying Up Pandas – Towards Data Science
Blog | Steven Morse – Army officer who teaches stats
GitHub – markwk/python4selftrackers: Presentation on Quantified Self and Self-Tracking and How Python Can Help with Data Aggregation and Data Analysis
GitHub – mjhea0/awesome-flask: A curated list of awesome things related to Flask
gazpacho – gazpacho is a web scraping library. It replaces requests and BeautifulSoup for most projects.
Max Humber – How to Win Fantasy Hockey
GitHub – maxhumber/quote: 📚 quote is a wrapper for the Goodreads Quote API powered by [gazpacho](https://github.com/maxhumber/gazpacho)
newspaper3k · PyPI. *“Newspaper is an amazing python library for extracting & curating articles.” – Kenneth Reitz, Author of * tweeted by requests – Newspaper3k: Article scraping & curation — newspaper 0.0.2 documentation
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python 2nd edition of the book free online.
Polynote | The polyglot Scala notebook

Visual Studio Code

Raspberry Pi

Compile/install Python 3.8 on Raspberry Pi | Michael Hirsch, Ph.D.
Raspberry Pi 4 Bootloader Firmware Updating / Recovery Guide
Hass.io – Home Assistant
Turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant
Dual Fan Aluminium Heatsink Case for Raspberry Pi 4 Black Australia
Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
GitHub – log2ram: ramlog like for systemd (Put log into a ram folder)
Log2Ram: Extending SD Card Lifetime for Raspberry Pi

Cycling

JaYoe World Tour Homepage | Follow Matt Cycling Around The World!

Purchased “The Art of Statistics” from Amazon for $30

Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever.

In The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter guides the reader through the essential principles we need in order to derive knowledge from data. Drawing on real world problems to introduce conceptual issues, he shows us how statistics can help us determine the luckiest passenger on the Titanic, whether serial killer Harold Shipman could have been caught earlier, and if screening for ovarian cancer is beneficial.

How many trees are there on the planet? Do busier hospitals have higher survival rates? Why do old men have big ears? Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions – questions that can only be addressed using statistical science.

https://dspiegel29.github.io/ArtofStatistics/
The Art of Statistics: Code, Data, Errata and Additions | ArtofStatistics

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Korean Drama

Netflix and Amazon Prime are serious impediments to productivity.

I watched Parasite a month or so ago. I really enjoyed it. One of the themes of the movie is social inequality and the lack of ability to move up in status / income.
It’s interesting that Korea’s income distribution is not too different to America’s.
But you always hear Americans talk about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” whereas in Korean films this is not that common.

It does have Song Kang-ho in it as did 2017’s A Taxi Driver which I also liked. I will watch anything with Song Kang-Ho in it.