Pyedgeon, my first pip package, was recently featured in a Recurse Center Joy of Computing blog post I did a lot of refactoring and ease-of-use additions to it, and have plans to create some weird side-projects with it + flask + twilio or something. I’ve got a lot of ideas recently and I am feeling … Continue reading
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What I did at RC
An inexhaustive list of things I’ve done during my retreat at the Recurse Center: (explanatory links will be added when summary posts are finished) Worked on the Instacart Market Basket Analysis competition (1577th place at 0.3772453; max score 0.4091449) Did some introductory exercises with javascript coding and syntax on Freecodecamp Tried to implement a way … Continue reading
Langton’s Ant in Python
I started a new repo on github that computes the Langton’s Ant cellular automata in python. For more information on Langton’s Ant, see its wikipedia page. Using classes in OOP is relatively unfamiliar to me, since most of the programing I’ve done in the last several years has been analysis scripts to extract trends and … Continue reading
Optical Illusion Buttons in Python
I wrote a short python script to generate optical illusion buttons that can’t be read very well unless you tilt the screen or image to a very low angle, almost edge-on, yielding images like this: If you’re doing it right, you should see the phrase, “NPR COOL DAD ROCK.” The code is below, to generate … Continue reading