Re: [discuss] Image processing with Python

2018-05-25 Thread Bennet Fauber
Carlos, You might find something in this lesson useful https://bic-berkeley.github.io/psych-214-fall-2016/arrays_and_images.html There are also three exercises in the parent lesson, https://bic-berkeley.github.io/psych-214-fall-2016/day_01.html As others have said, possibly not

Re: [discuss] SQL Database version control tool recommendations?

2018-08-10 Thread Bennet Fauber
Tiffany, You might experiment with some smallish databases. The order of records may well change significantly from dump to dump, making the apparent differences and the actual differences between any two dumps appear much larger than they really are. Good luck! On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:49

Re: [discuss] SQL Database version control tool recommendations?

2018-08-10 Thread Bennet Fauber
Where possible, we used to keep transaction logs in addition to database dumps. Those can be replayed from the dumped database state to replay the transactions up to any point by copying and editing the transaction log(s). My best recollection is that they are text and would be suitable for

Re: [discuss] Slide of Joel Grus' JupyterCon Talk "I Don't Like Notebooks"

2018-08-28 Thread Bennet Fauber
Kevin, Nice summary; thank you. It is yet another thing to learn in a short time. I am not a notebook fan, and I remember attending two workshops at a conference that were notebook based -- those were my first real experience with notebooks -- and I had more questions about the mechanics of

Re: [discuss] Slide of Joel Grus' JupyterCon Talk "I Don't Like Notebooks"

2018-08-29 Thread Bennet Fauber
Carol, I don't think anyone is saying, "Tell people not to use notebooks." The questions are about whether they improve the learning experience for beginners. There is also the question of whether use of the GUI somehow defeats the purpose of the shell lesson by contradicting what is often said

Re: [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or?

2018-10-22 Thread Bennet Fauber
Lex, It could be a noun. People refer to a sing-along as an event; I have been invited to some other musical play-alongs aimed at beginning instrumentalists. Probably worth defining once, then use it well. :-) -- bennet On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:23 AM Lex Nederbragt wrote: > Thanks for

Re: [discuss] NLP Carpentry

2019-07-22 Thread Bennet Fauber
Agreed. Slack is not a good place for persistent, open conversations that will end up shaping how lessons, code, and policies are implemented. At my day job, we have several years of lost conversations, policy decisions, and links to useful things that disappeared into the history that isn't

Re: [discuss] Undergraduate Workshop on Topology for Data Science

2019-12-07 Thread Bennet Fauber
Please do post the content and let us know where to retrieve it. Sounds quite interesting. On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 8:49 PM Dave Millman wrote: > Unfortunately, not this iteration but we will post the content. If the > workshop is successful, we hope to do more of them and can look into >

Re: [discuss] <== Mailing list prefix label for the Carpentries' discuss list

2020-04-07 Thread Bennet Fauber
It's very 'pre merge', but the old three-letter acronym 'SWC' was fairly unique, fairly informative, and fairly short. Would it be out of court to suggest resuscitating that for this purpose? One other possibility would be to simply replace 'discuss' with 'carpentry'? On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at