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This writeup is to provide an up-to-date list of database options for use in any Python application. I find that it's hard to know exactly what the landscape is out there. I will address database options (like SQLite) and database interface options (like SQLAlchemy). Data is sourced from
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TuringJest is a social deception game with a twist. You want to act like an NPC! I've been working on TuringJest for a few weeks now with the help of a couple friends and the project is coming along brilliantly. I posted the game on the orange site
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Beautiful design is addicting to look at. This fact is especially true when the design is brilliantly simple. I first saw https://2pml.com/ on a chilly Saturday morning and the greed to have the same immediately began to bubble and fester. If only I was a software developer who
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Secrets is a Python module that snuck into my Python installations, completely without my knowledge. Added in 2016, I had already been developing using Python for a few years and had developed my own methods for random ID generation. Oftentimes I would write some code that looked like this: import
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OpenAI has a publicly available API for their GPT-3 model, "text-davinci-003". This API provides a simple and clean interface for text completions. See the example below for a demonstration for just how easy it is. import os import openai openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY&
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To make products people use, one needs some frontend skills. Historically, frontend is a weakness of mine and I've been constrained to clunky CLIs and APIs to get what I want to do done. No longer! Last week I sat myself down and read the Svelte and SvelteKit
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Recently, I've been doing some shopping around for a new way to host my toy projects. I've used a variety of solution but always had a soft spot for Heroku. Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that has been receiving a lot of negative
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Recently, I have been learning about optimal options pricing under various sets of assumptions. The introduction to risk-neutral options pricing is the Black-Scholes model, which assumes you have an arbitrage free market with at least one risk-free asset and one risky asset. Additionally you assume that the log-price of the
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One characteristic that almost every engineer is the innate desire to create. These feelings of creativity can manifest differently from one engineer to another, be it web-dev, algorithm design, manufacturing projects, raspberry pi, etc.. This desire to build something is universal. So when I decided (for maybe the 100th time)
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Container With Most Water (Problem #11) on the popular competitive programming site LeetCode [leetcode.com] is called “Container With Most Water.” The question prompt is as follows: “Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, …, an , where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai). n vertical lines are drawn such that
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System design is a complicated skill that takes engineers of all disciplines years to become proficient in, yet alone master. In order to practice my low-level system design skills and tackle an inconvenience I often have, I decided to recreate the popular meeting scheduling website WhenIsGood [whenisgood.net] and make
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“Monte Carlo simulations are used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables.“ (Investopedia, 2019) For me, ease of prediction is completely relative. If doing the math on a process proves itself too cumbersome or boring,