Filling a Workflow Gap with bpython

Posted in December 2020 to workflow

I felt a bit disingenuous putting this article under the category of "programming", as it's more a discussion of workflows used for programming than actual programming itself. However, can I really justify having an entire category for "workflow"? We shall see.

This time, I'd like to share my experience with …

Class Inheritance for Parameters in Python

Posted in December 2020 to programming

It sometimes happens that I'm doing something at work, hit an issue, and don't really have the functional reserve (in terms of time, motivation, or ... HP? MP?) to properly deal with it. My usual solution is to spend a few minutes doofing about with it to see if a quick …

Getting Started with R - Building Good Habits

Posted in December 2020 to programming

I recently had to start using R for a couple of university courses. Everyone had to write their projects in Rmarkdown, and submit them in both PDF and Rmarkdown format. The past few weeks have been a bit of a blur. I'm also enrolled for an introductory course in R …

Abbreviations of Japanese Government Department Names

Posted in November 2020 to translation

While translating a text from Japanese to English recently, I encountered the following issue. There was a long sentence containing a list of items, with each followed by an inline reference in brackets to a document from a government department, like this:

one (link one), two (link two), ...

The references …

First Post

Posted in November 2020 to misc

Every now and then, I get the urge to put together a blog. When I do, I usually spend a day trying to re-remember HTML and CSS, searching for a theme I can use as a starting point, and then twiddling with code. I have liked the simplicity of static …