Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

No one wins at Code Golf vs. This is more noise than signal

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Looking at code. Came to a 20-line block of code that did exactly this. sorted(Path.cwd().glob("some_pattern[1-9]*.*"), reverse=Tr...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

How to Test a Random Number Generator

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Nowadays, we don't have the same compelling reasons to test a random number generator. The intervening decades have seen a lot of fruitf...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Old Days -- ca. 2000 -- Empirical Tests of Random Numbers (Python and Chi-Square Testing)

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See The Old Days -- ca. 1974 Random Numbers Before Python for some background. We'll get to Python after reminiscing about the olden da...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

The Old Days -- ca. 1974 -- Random Numbers before Python

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See " The Old Old Days -- ca. 1968 " for my first exposure to an actual computer. Nothing about Python there. But. It's what m...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The Old Old Days -- ca. 1968

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As the olds do, I reminisce sometimes. Not often. Let me rewind the memory tapes a back to 1967 or '68. (What a dumb metaphor for folks ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Processing Apple Numbers Files

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Apple's freebie tools -- Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garage Band, etc. -- are wonderful things. I really like Numbers. I'm tolerant of ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Reading Spreadsheets with Stingray Reader and Type Hinting

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See Spreadsheets, COBOL, and schema-driven file processing , etc. for some history on this project. Also, see Stingray-Reader for the curre...