Vertica is a very powerful analytics database, and we can easily extend functionality now by building in Python functions. This is great and all, so here I'll focus on setting up a development environment for building a simple UDx.
The documentation from Vertica is not super specific, so this may …
This month I turn 30 years old and what a wild ride it has been! I am very grateful for everyone who has been with me for my journey, and am hopeful of many adventures to come.
Abel Francis was born in the afternoon of April 22nd, 2019, at nearly nine pounds!
Mom and baby are happy and healthy, here's the little man shortly after birth:
Olson loves his little brother, seen here at a little over a month old:
What a day! Congrats to all the finishers. I count myself very grateful to be at the start line of this one, with my wife at 39 weeks pregnant. Didn't have the run that I had hoped out there, wrote some checks that my legs couldn't cash with a first …
Atom is a code editor. The defaults try to "complete" words from your writing, and don't highlight spelling. After many months of using a code editor to write, it's clear that I've gone backwards and I should at least be using spell checking!
These two settings vastly improve the latex …
For coercing pandas date times (stored as numpy datetime):
for col in df.columns[df.dtypes == np.dtype('<M8[ns]')]:
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32827169/python-reduce-precision-pandas-timestamp-dataframe
# apply(lambda x: x.replace(microsecond=0))
df[col] = df[col].values.astype('datetime64[s]')
For coercing python datetime (here, a datetime.date, there …
This is a note intended for my future self. Here’s how to do it:
.loc.Say I want to group by months, but not all of the …
This was an incredible experience.
The crowds were just amazing, and seeing my son Olson at mile 6 in the rain and cold was amazing. With the weather, Olson on my mind, and the huge crowds, parts of the race were very emotional.
At about mile 11-13, I sped up …
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