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Analyzing NYC Subway Data with Python

MTA provides a public dataset of turnstile data per station since May 2010. We can grab weather data from Weather Underground, who kindly provides historical weather data in CSV format. You can also grab the same data through their API. Data Munging The data we collected so far usuable yet,

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Quine

Inspired by this impressive piece of engineering, I tried to write my one quine in CoffeeScript. The trick I used was to encode the entire file into decimal ASCII and store it in the data array. To rebuild the actual code, you convert it back to characters. This lets you

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Advent of Code 2021

Visualizations of Advent of Code 2021 challenge. Code on Github Day 11 - Flashing Octopuses (Strobe Warning)

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Mario Levels

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Procedural Fern

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Harmonographs

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Wine Still Life - 2019

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Skull Still Life - 2019

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Genuary 2021

Experimenting with different forms of repetition

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Shapes

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Visionary

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Brothers #1

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Halibut Poached in Duck Fat with Corn Salad

My riff on a recipe from Anthony Bourdain’s Appetites cookbook: Halibut Recipe:2 halibut fillets (about 12 ounces each; ask your fishmonger to remove the white belly skin but to leave the dark dorsal skin attached)1 quart rendered duck fat (available at various gourmet retailers and some butcher

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Macau-style Pork Chop Sandwich

Came out a bit dry, but the sauce was to die for. Ingredients [serves 4] 4 boneless pork rib chops or cutlets (about 6 ounces each)¼ cup soy sauce¼ cup Chinese rice wine¼ cup black vinegar1 tablespoon sesame oil4 garlic cloves, peeled and coarsely chopped1 tablespoon five-spice powder1 tablespoon dark