A fun multi-lingual concurrency experiment
The other day I was writing some code for a CI pipeline that needed to fetch release notes from several different git repos and collate them into one large s...
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2023
Production Dockerfile Tips and Tricks
Container images are the backbone of a lot of modern workflows, especially in the age of Kubernetes and friends. Building images that are small, secure, and ...
Some Advanced Typing Concepts in Python
To start off, let me admit that yes, Python is a dynamically (gradually?) typed language. However, with modern Python (3.6+, and really with 3.10+) and stati...
2022
Early and late binding closures in Python
So it happened again, late-binding closures bit me. I once again had to discover that this was a thing so I decided to make a little post about it just in ca...
Access Modifiers in Python
If you have stumbled across this post then you are probably coming to Python from another object oriented language that has real support for access modifiers...
Abstract Base Classes and Protocols: What Are They? When To Use Them?? Lets Find Out!
In Python there are two similar, yet different, concepts for defining something akin to an interface, or a contract describing what methods and attributes a ...
2021
A Modern and Explicit approach to Python Exceptions
Two of the most popular "modern" programming languages are Rust and Go. While these languages are quite different, both have a few things in common...
Building a fully typed LRU Cache in Python
In this post we are going to build a fully typed LRU (least recently used) cache (almost) from scratch using Python. We will then create a function decorator...
A Practical Guide to MCMC Part 2: Further Resources
If you are coming here Part 1 then I'm sorry to tell you that this is not the fully fleshed out post you were hoping for. If you are coming here directly, go...
How to transition from Academia to Data Science
Oh boy, another one of these blog posts about transitioning to Data Science from Academia. Well, in this post I'll try to add a slightly different take on th...
2018
Personal Analytics Part 1: Gmail
Most of us are sending or receiving tens to hundreds of emails daily. I have been using email regularly since my undergrad days in 2008 so I thought it would...
A Practical Guide to MCMC Part 1: MCMC Basics
Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) is an art, pure and simple. Throughout my career I have learned several tricks and techniques from various "artists"...
2017
Continuous Integration of Hugo Website using Travis CI and Github.
In this post I will go over how to set up a clean continuous integration system for your personal Github site using Hugo and Travis CI.
Automating Jupyter Slides with Travis CI and gh-pages.
From a Jupyter notebook to a beautiful web presentation in no time!
2016
I'm Quite Ready for Another Adventure
As part of my transition to Data Science I figured I should get some first hand experience into the field in which I'm transitioning. A few months ago I got ...
Starting a Blog
As is seemingly more common in our field of Astrophysics, I am working on making the transition to Data Science. As part of the learning process for me and i...