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pyedpiper

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    Comment #23854505

    go banana slugs!

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    Why is generating plots so bad in Google Sheets?

    I love Sheets. We use it all the time in our organization to quickly share small raw datasets or to jointly collab on some psuedo quantitative task (ie budgets, tasks, etc). But an…

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    Comment #19328795

    I'll just leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development#Res...

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    Comment #18292718

    Can you expand on that please?

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    Comment #17990938

    Love xonsh!! And gets more and more stable with every release. it's the shell I always wanted. And cross platform to boot. Alias ls -l? aliases['ls'] = "ls -l" Oops no I don't want…

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    Comment #17856626

    recently minted Chemistry PhD here -- Thirded. Grad school was one of my best decisions. I went to a great school that was what I call the Goldilocks size, big enough to have a gre…

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    Comment #16224960

    saw this after posting, so epicly useful. Alreadying thinking of some nice concise, explanatory custom Exception descriptions..

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    Comment #16224952

    true but it seems that the performance gap is pretty huge and the new f-strings actually come in on top for string substitution: https://cito.github.io/blog/f-strings/

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    Python f-strings are the best syntax sugar i never knew about

    I've written `"text {foo}".format(foo=foo)` so many times I've almost convinced myself that it's not that verbose. Then i discovered fstrings introduced ins 3.6: ``` >>> f"text {fp…

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    Comment #16097811

    This article is kind of whack... Yes modern superconducting materials are getting warmer and warmer. No we're not at room temp now. No there's not a clear path to simulating band g…

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    Comment #14801174

    yes, then it will be easier to avoid diets that assume our digestive system hasn't had any evolutionary pressure since the neanderthals...

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    Comment #14621909

    taking frontend framework advice from a website that is arguably uglier and more poorly laid out than the bulk of geocities pages is a tough pill to swallow.

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    Comment #14500196

    not working for me either. made an issue (#39) on the repo.

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    Comment #14353396

    side note: Wiki mobile view renders quite nicely on a desktop for reading

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    Comment #14099929

    as well as microsoft's baked right into office Ink to Math convert

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    Comment #12630532

    yeah but that ambient synth/string music sure is pleasant.