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Well, it looks like the chief executives of Wall Street firms are making better choices by withdrawing from the Saudi’s “Davos in the Desert” conference. Instead of bowing to the altar of money, they seem to be listening to the higher values of human rights and concern for mankind. The news and evidences coming out…
Suddenly, a macro that had previously been working stopped working. It was a special macro program that I had created for someone and I was going to re-use it for another person’s request. It was the same exact set of macro codes and yet it would not work. The program would freeze. I couldn’t see…
Yesterday I forgot to mention about why people may not evacuate in the face of an incoming hurricane. A couple of reasons crossed my mind: 1. If you live in a huge city like Houston, evacuating in time just might not be possible. Back in 2005 people tried to evacuate for hurricane Rita and the…
I don’t see how one can ignore what is going on with the weather. We had last year’s hurricane Harvey with the 1000-year flooding event, hurricane Irma and hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico, which just recently got back its electricity for most of the island. This year we had hurricane Florence washing out the…
Lately, I’ve been trying to figure out how text analysis work. Last year, when I was looking at some comments, I created a dictionary of similar phrases so I could see trends in comments – what kind of comments are mentioned most frequently. In the business I’m in, certain phrases come up frequently so one…
Coding oneself out of one’s job – that’s an interesting concept but this article says that there are a few that are doing it. Note, these programmers are self-motivated to automate the routine boring part of the job. I have always automated aspects of my job but not to the full extent as these coders…