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I’ve been having some performance issues with what should be an amazingly easy problem. I want to output a string with 8000 1 or 0 values space separated. I want to do this for a few thousand rows. The data is very sparse. I originally used numpy.zeros() thinking this would give me a big list […]
Filed by Popeye at January 21st, 2008 under Nerdy, Python
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I’m a big fan of Top Gear (maybe the title is a little misleading(?) as it has very little to do with Top Gear), and saw this on BBC News, pretty funny if you ask me At least he took it well.
TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in […]
Filed by Popeye at January 8th, 2008 under Nerdy
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I’ve known about Eclipse for a LONG time and I even downloaded it once or twice and fiddled with it, though I couldn’t ever get myself to use it as other editors (my favourites are jEdit and Eric) were slimmer and did what I needed, recently I’ve been playing with Actionscript 3 (Flash development) and […]
Filed by Popeye at December 19th, 2007 under Nerdy, Linux, Flash, Flex, Actionscript 3
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In a previous life (’98-2001ish) I used to be a good flash developer and I pretty much did nothing but flash development, though after a while I learnt to really hate flash. Many reasons for it, though one of the major ones was how inefficient it was. Since I started to give it up I’ve […]
Filed by Popeye at November 26th, 2007 under Nerdy
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Amazon launched a new beta service a few months ago called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which is basically an easily scalable system that can be controlled programatically via a web service. This is very cool because it allows you to automatically scale up as your load increases and then scale down as the load decreases. […]
Filed by Popeye at June 27th, 2007 under Nerdy
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Hehe is this cool or what?
What’s fun, cheap, good looking, and cleans a hardwood floor with an advanced search and navigation algorithm? An electrostatic dust mop attached to a radio-controlled car. Vroom!
Filed by Popeye at June 15th, 2007 under Nerdy
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I’ve just spent a heap of time trying to figure out what was going wrong with our email server.
The only error was -ERR (try searching Google for that!). The server was popa3d.
When I tried telnetting into the server (port 110) it would behave normally unless I put in the correct password, in which case it […]
Filed by Popeye at May 2nd, 2007 under Nerdy, Linux
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