Table of Contents Parsing custom binary formats Exploration Binary Format Basics Reading the MNIST data files Misc I/O An alternative higher-level API, ByteBuffer -> asIntBuffer Parsing custom binary formats This is a rough draft of some notes on working with binary data in Clojure. I’m going to…
Alembic is fine if you're using Leiningen, but I've been using deps.edn and Clojure's built-in project/dependency management. deps.edn {:deps {org.clojure/tools.deps.alpha {:git/url "https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha.git" :sha "d492e97259c013ba401c5238842cd3445839d020"}}} user.clj (ns user (:require [clojure.tools.…
SQLite doesn't have a true "boolean" affinity. https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html#affname 3.1. Determination Of Column Affinity The affinity of a column is determined by the declared type of the column, according to the following rules in the order shown: If the declared type contains the string…
TLS is a successor to SSL. SSL was developed in 1995 and while dealing with security issues went through 3 versions before someone wrote a similar but new protocol to try to address some of the issues inherent in SSL. This new protocol was TLS. You should be using TLS.…
I often get into a spot where I have a bunch of whitespace and newlines separating a couple of closed parentheses. (defun fib (n) (if (< n 2) n (+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)) ))) Lets assume your cursor is anywhere between the end of line 4 and…
This is an account of my development environment overhaul. I’ve recently made the following changes: Move from xfce to StumpWMMove from Qwerty to NormanMove from vanilla Emacs to Doom Emacs with Evil-mode (Vim bindings)StumpWMInstead of using the default window manager that I installed with Manjaro, I’m making…
Eric Ihli 2018 Funding for this study was provided by Ezmonic. AbstractPi is a constant that not only surrounds us but continues to surprise us with unexpected appearances. For all of Pi's ubiquitousness, how much does the average person really know about it? This study aims to shed light on…
Robert Greenberg has some amazing lectures on music from The Great Courses. Even if the subject matter (classical music) doesn't interest you, he's an excellent lecturer and his enthusiasm is infectious. Regardless of topic, he's entertaining. Something from the beginning of Lecture 2 of "How to Listen to and Understand…
I've been scraping the web a lot as part of my quest to find the best scratch-off lottery ticket. I want to share some of the practices that I've discovered. I'll do so by posting the code itself in a style of "literate programming". (It's actually just heavily commented code.…
# C-b is "back 1 char" in emacs # Unbind it as the Tmux prefix to not conflict with emacs unbind-key C-b set-option -g prefix C-] # If we change our .tmux.conf and want to reload it quickly bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf # Use vim movement keys for moving between…