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Probot: building a Mastodon bot

I have long admired albums2hear, a Twitter bot that posts albums. You can read a bit more about it here. There was no mastodon equivalent and so I decided to build one. You can follow the bot – currently called Albums Albums Albums (or AlbumsX3) – here. Idea behind the bot The idea is to […]

4th February 2023By quantixed computing, fun, music bot, ffmpeg, mastodon, python, Raspberry Pi, RPi, Rstats

Weather Report: building a weather station

As a project idea for a young engineer we wanted to build a Raspberry Pi-based Weather Station. Our last attempt at building something – a sound-responsive LED display – was a failure. So it was important to build something really easy to help us get back on track. Here are some notes. We essentially followed […]

7th June 2022By quantixed computing, fun Adafruit, education, python, Raspberry Pi

Seles II: Tennis coding challenge solution

In a previous post, I described a coding challenge sent to me by my colleague. Here is the challenge again: There is a tennis match between two players denoted 1, and 2. You are given a sequence of 1s and 2s whereby each number denotes a point won by player 1 or player 2 (e.g. […]

5th December 2021By quantixed adventures in code, computing, fun challenge, programming, pythonOne Comment

Rollercoaster IV: ups and downs of Google Scholar citations

Time for an update to a previous post. For the past few years, I have been using an automated process to track citations to my lab’s work on Google Scholar (details of how to set this up are at the end of this post). Due to the nature of how Google Scholar tracks citations, it […]

6th June 2019By quantixed computing, fun, publishing bash, citations, Google Scholar, h-index, IgorPro, metrics, python

All Around The World: Maps and Flags in R

Our lab is international. People born all over the world have come to work in my group. I’m proud of this fact, especially in the current political climate. I’ve previously used the GoogleMaps API to display a heat map on our lab webpage. It shows where in the world people in the lab come from. […]

20th March 2019By quantixed adventures in code, computing, fun dataviz, emojis, flags, maps, python, RstatsOne Comment
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