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Finishing Reason and Persuasion, a Coursera MOOC about Plato

Tue, 06 Dec 2016

This post summarizes my impressions after taking the Coursera MOOC "Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato" by John Holbo (University of Singapore).

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MOOC Philosophy

Replicating the Talk Statistics for Hackers

Sat, 29 Oct 2016

This post focuses on replicating the data from Jake VanderPlas' slides "Statistics for hackers".

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Statistics

Do People Attend Emergency Rooms Less During Sports Events?

Sat, 15 Oct 2016

In this post, we examine statistical data from a journal article about emergency room attendance and try to replicate its conclusions using elementary statistical testing.

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Statistics

Moral Dilemmas in Batman Begins (2005)

Tue, 11 Oct 2016

This blog post is devoted to Batman Begins (2005) and its numerous moral dilemmas. We use moviepy to produce short, annotated movie clips showcasing some of the interesting situations from the movie.

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Ethics moviepy

Removing the Background from an Image using scikit-image

Thu, 01 Sep 2016

Triggered by a thread on StackOverflow, we try to remove the background of a sample image using scikit-image.

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Image Processing

Applying the Watershed Transform to a Cuneiform Tablet

Tue, 30 Aug 2016

In this blog post, we're applying the watershed transform to a cuneiform tablet using scikit-image.

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Mesopotamia Image Processing

Making Your Own Autostereograms using Python

Wed, 03 Aug 2016

In this post, we'll learn how to make our own autostereograms using two methods: shifted images and tiled random dot patterns.

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Optics Illusions

2016, une crue de la Seine exceptionnelle ?

Mon, 13 Jun 2016

Dans ce billet, nous examinons la question suivante : "la crue de la Seine de juin 2016 peut-elle être considérée comme exceptionnelle au vu des données historiques disponibles sur le sujet ?".

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Geography Statistics

Measuring the Complexity of an Algorithm

Tue, 31 May 2016

In this post, we discuss how to measure the complexity of an algorithm using three implementations of the Fibonacci sequence.

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Programming Algorithms

Using Bokeh to Map Internet Usage and GDP over Time

Thu, 26 May 2016

In this post, I'm using Bokeh to visualize world bank data about GDP and internet usage as a function of time.

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Bokeh Dataviz
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