I had the worst travel experience of my life recently. I ended up spending as much time delayed at the terminal as I spent in the air: 4 hours down, 3 hours back. I decided to use my time in the lovely Key West International Airport to download the on-time performance data for every major [...]
This is bad, sure, but at least we aren’t the 1988 Orioles*. *yet
Tagged baseballI’m wondering how my NY Times reading habits will change once the new paywall comes into effect March 28, limiting the number of free articles per month to 20 (sort of). Most of what I read on the times are three blogs: Economix, Bits, Bitten. I also read the top stories on my iPhone and [...]
First off, I finally created an account on github, where I’ll start posting some code. The first thing I put up is a simple webcrawler for downloading the outcome of all of the basketball games since 1970. I’ll play with the data some more, but for now here are the best and worst teams since [...]
I got ahold of the Sun Grid Engine logs for our server at work and I’ll hopefully figure out some ways to get our computing cluster running more efficiently. The image below shows which programs are used the most by CBS professors. There are some pretty strong biases to the plot: This is only data [...]
That’s him up there pulling in $1.25M per episode of the worst/most popular comedy on TV. And to add to the insanity, the second highest paid star is Jon Cryer from the same show at $550k per episode. And here it is with names. I don’t have time to fix the overlap right now. h/t [...]
This requires a (free) Yahoo! BOSS account. It’s pretty self-explanatory, otherwise. def get_wikipedia_url(query, boss_id, api = False): """ Takes a search query and returns the wikipedia link in the top results. If there’s no wikipedia link, it returns None. Use api = True if you want to get the link to the API [...]
Tagged code, pythonA friend of mine just shared this picture on google reader: Let me describe the reasons I hate it: It appears that all of the US presidents were in office the same amount of time. George HW Bush should be half the size and Obama should be 1/4 the size. All of the dates are evenly [...]
I got thrown into writing multi-threaded programs at work when I had to port some code from Visual C++ to GNU C++. Some grad student wrote the original code and I just had to modify it, which was annoying but it gave me a minimal working knowledge of POSIX threading, which is actually far easier [...]