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Learning Cybernetics: Working on Ashby’s Transformation Matrices
Intro I really do not have that much spare time, but I also really wanted to learn more about “Cybernetics”. So I bought (yet another) book, a classic in this case (I think it was first edited in 1956): “An Introduction to Cybernetics”, by W. Ross Ashby (“Ashby” from now on for short). So far,…
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Simulation: Monte-Carlo & Input Distributions (1/n)
Intro First, let me say, I know, it’s been a while. And that’s alright. I have plenty of good excuses 🙂 Now that doesn’t mean I should completely forget about this my little Blog. OK, so, for today: I’ve been studying Operations Research for about 3 months now, and we’re getting (in the Master course)…
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A basic scraping exercise for a friend
Intro The other day a friend that owns a small business asked me for help. He needed to download all photos from a set of URLs of his own web-page, but there were hundreds of URLs, in each a few photos, and he didn’t really know how to go about it “quickly” (as always, it…