This is a short game play recording of me defending against Hammerman’s 3rd wave of attack and winning. The game is Boom Beach, and it’s the only phone game that I played this long, and have actually made in-game purchases for more than once…yet, it has no ads. The game is very refined, simple, yet […]
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Phone number formatting tips (Excel and Python)
For most people working with data for a significant amount of time, formatting raw data from different sources are both a reality and a pain. Today, I show different ways to format an un-formatted string that contains phone numbers using Python, and Excel. Our task is to format it (either for human-reporting, or consumption by […]
Searching online (Google) with Python
In this blog, I demonstrate how to run a Google query from a Python app extremely easily. The harder part is just the set up and knowing what to install. So, let’s start with the set up details: You’ll need to install the following packages IN ORDER: 1) beautifulsoup4 2) google NOTE: The package to […]
Most brilliant people to know in the computing world
Here’s a list of some legendary programmers/tech-minds of the computing industry to-date. More brilliant minds will surface I’m sure, but if you know these names, you covered most of the critical people. Of these great people, I’ve had the pleasure to meet in person Bill Gates and Sir Tim Berners-Lee during my tenure at Microsoft. […]
Beating Dr. T at his highest level
This is a game play recording of me beating Dr. T at his highest level 60 (available for my current level 56). The game is Boom Beach, and it’s the only phone game that I played this long, and have actually made in-game purchases for more than once…yet, it has no ads. The game is […]
Can you solve this? Pattern matching
Every now and then, when my brain is bored, I come up with quizzes (around logic and code). This one’s about logic…specifically about color and order of the colored titles. Can you solve it? For more brain teasers and puzzles, click here.
Sample Size in Python
This is part of a 3-part series on the topic. Please read the posts in the order for maximum clarity and context: 1. Sample Size and Margin of Errors. Everything you need to know and ++ 2. Sample Size (Contd.) 3. Sample size in Python (This one) Ok, after reading the first 2 posts, you […]
Sample Size (Contd.)
This is part of a 3-part series on the topic. Please read the posts in the order for maximum clarity and context: 1. Sample Size and Margin of Errors. Everything you need to know and ++ 2. Sample Size (Contd.) 3. Sample Size in Python In this blog, we’ll use actual numbers to determine […]
Sample Size and Margin of Errors. Everything you need to know and ++
I’m not a statistician by profession or training. However, I find it fascinating with even the basics under my belt and find plethora of statistic’s practical usage. Without it, we’re really ignorant. With it, we’re equipped but not always best educated either. I heard the phrase again and again, “Correlation does not equal causation!” and […]
Running code from within another code (Python)
Most of us who have done any programming know that virtually all languages allow you to execute another program from within a program. For example, you start your program, which may start another process (via calling Execute or the like) that’s a self-contained program by itself, resulting in another process or spawn another thread as […]