NCAA March Madness Bracket 2019
I know it’s a few hours late but here we go… As with everyone else, Duke all the way!
Sports
Programming
100 Days of Swift
Paul Hudson (@twostraws) is hosting a 100 Days of Swift in which he provides short videos, quizzes and assignments to walk you through an introduction to Swift. He actually started some time ago, I think on Feb 1, 2019, but I’m just getting started now and have completed Day 4! In Day 1, we covered
Programming
Exec-php WordPress Plugin and PHP 7 Fix
I recently upgraded the version of PHP used on our hosting service to 7.1, as the Elementor plugin requires at least version 7 to run now. This had the side effect of breaking the Exec-php plugin (version 4.9) I use to allow PHP code to run in posts and pages. It manifested itself with the
Programming, Science
Using Python to Calculate Transmission Probabilities for Multilayer Structures
I’m currently taking the second Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers course online from Stanford. They are both great courses taught by David Miller. The second course is looking more at applications and the third week’s topic was optical absorption by semiconductors. Once we worked through all the physics and algebra, it was presented that
General
Setting the To value: cell in Excel’s Goal Seek to a Cell Reference
Sadly, it took awhile to “figure” this out. I was trying to solve a set of equations in Excel. I had one equation in one cell, say B1, that had a dependency on the value in A1. I had the second equation in cell C1 that also has a dependency on A1. I wanted to
Mac OS X, Programming
pydotplus on macOS
I’ve been playing around with SciKit-Learn’s decision tree regression function. In one of the examples I was working on, they provided a demo script to print out a jpg of the decision tree. Cool! Unfortunately, my system didn’t have pydotplus installed. I’m using Anaconda, so issuing the following command took care of that issue: conda
Mac OS X
Move to Trash Deletes Immediately
I had this issue when I first updated to macOS Mojave. To solve it, I performed the following command in Terminal: sudo rm -Ri ~/.Trash [enter your password] Then, Log out. Log back in. Move to Trash now works as expected. Note: You can implement Delete Immediately… by holding down Option-Command-Delete.
General, Sports
NBA 2018 Bracket
Okay, the NBA bracket challenge has a horrible interface! As a reminder for future years, don’t use this! Go with ESPN or someone else. Having said that, here’s my NBA bracket. I think it shows my picks except for the Blazers, who got their asses swept by the Pelicans, so zero points there! Amazing that