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We have all been there. The first time you realize you know enough programming language that you want to make something. One of the best things the Python community has is that it encourages the newcomers to not only build amazing things, but to share them with everyone, and thus the community gets better. However, I have been noticing a pattern in some of these projects. You know which ones I am talking about. Read more

TL;DR I made a map showing the different residential parking areas in my city. It is the first map of this data that exists, and I am disappointed with the Spanish Government Open Data policies. You can check out the map here. I also shared the code required to create this map as a jupyter notebook here. An introduction, and a bit of ranting. After living in NYC for quite some time, I recently moved to Murcia, Spain to be closer to my family. Read more

Hey Manuel of the future. Next time you format your ubuntu machine, just do this to fix all those annoying wifi issues. Go to /etc/network/interfaces and edit the file like this: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo auto wlan0 iface lo inet loopback (this is assuming your wireless interface is wlan0) Then do as follows (found on an ubuntu forums post from 2011, sigh). Read more

In this tutorial, we will dive into recommendation systems. You might not know what recommendation systems are but you see them everywhere on the internet. Everytime you shop on Amazon and you see related products… Or when Netflix recommends you something interesting to watch… The purpose of a recommendation system is to predict a rating that a user will give to an item that they have not yet rated. Read more