8 January 2021

33 links · Friday

Scipy Lecture Notes — Scipy lecture notes

Tutorials on the scientific Python ecosystem: a quick introduction to central tools and techniques. The different chapters each correspond to a 1 to 2 hours course with increasing level of expertise, from beginner to expert.

Hacking QR code design

Creating QR codes that look like anything. Plus, world's first QR gif!

How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance - IEEE Spectrum

A week ago, Boston Dynamics posted a video of Atlas, Spot, and Handle dancing to “Do You Love Me.” It was, according to the video description, a way “to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year.” As of today the video has been viewed nearly 2…

adam-mcdaniel/atom

Shell scripting that will knock your socks off. Contribute to adam-mcdaniel/atom development by creating an account on GitHub.

norvig/pytudes

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes

Xamarin.Forms 5 with David Ortinau

Come on in to find out what's all new with Xamarin.Forms Five dot Oh with David Ortinau

synergy

Express your UI simply in terms of data (JS) and templates (HTML & CSS) and Synergy will update your UI efficiently whenever your data changes.

Sandboxing vs. Elevated Browsing (As Administrator)

The Web Browser is the most security-critical application on most users’ systems– it accepts untrusted input from servers anywhere in the world, parses that input using dozens to hundre…

WinUI 3 Preview 3 | Windows Dev

WinUI 3 At Ignite 2019 Microsoft released the first bits of Windows UI Library (WinUI) version 3 (a.k.a. WinUI 3), an evolution of the UWP/XAML platform, that decouples the XAML UI framework from the Windows OS. It is shipped in its whole as a NuGet package,

Azure Automation Runbooks moving to GitHub

TechNet Script Center gallery hosting Automation scripts (runbooks) as shown in the Runbooks Gallery is set to retire by December 2020. You can go through the official announcement here by the TechNet team. It entails that all PowerShell & Python scripts avail…

The psychology of influence and hacking growth

 I finished two books recently on the related topics of hacking growth and the psychology of influence.   My notes and excerpts are below.  ...

An offer you can refuse

I want to create computer programs that engage in meaningful two-way creative collaboration with human users. For this to take place, I think the notion of “offers” is going to need to become more widespread in human/computer co-creativity research.

How I automated my Coffee Grinder

Making Coffee and what influences it There are not many better things than a good espresso to start your day… Ok, before I lose myself in talking about coffee (or espresso), its brewing, and what I’ve learned over the last five years about it, I will take a sh…