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While on the train
I decidedly LOVE riding on a train: For whatever reason, it’s one particular moment where I somehow focus a bit more than usual. It’s usually just a few hours, reasonably quiet environment, a bit more spacious than say airplanes (airplanes are just not the same, even with earplugs), no TV to distract my attention, the…
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How SQL is still proving useful: Snowflake
Intro A short and somewhat different entry. SQL keeps on giving So these past few days/weeks, I have had the chance to work with a “Data Lake” platform. As it turns out, in “Snowflake”, the platform, having some understanding of SQL helps… a LOT. The little I understand about it by now, it seems like…
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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…