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WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows 8/10 and scientific and educational usage.

It is a full-featured Python-based scientific environment:

    - Designed for scientists, data-scientists, and education (thanks to NumPy, SciPy, Sympy, Matplotlib, Pandas, pyqtgraph, etc.):
        - interactive data processing and visualization using Python with Spyder and Jupyter/IPython, Pyzo, IDLEX or IDLE
        - fully integrated Cython and Numba! See included example
        - connectors (cffi, odbc, rpy2, scilab2py, requests, ...) for advanced users
    - Portable:
        - Runs out of the box(*) on any Windows 8+ with 2GB Ram (Jupyter Notebook will require a recent browser)
        - The WinPython folder can be moved to any location (**) (local, network, USB drive) with most of the application settings
    - Flexible:
        - You can install as many WinPython distributions as you want on the same machine: each one is isolated and self-consistent
        - These installations can be of different versions of Python (3.7/3.8/3.9...)
    - Customizable:
        - The integrated WinPython Package Manager (WPPM) helps installing, uninstalling or upgrading Python packages
        - It's also possible to install or upgrade packages using pip from the WinPython command prompt
        - A configuration file allows you to set environment variables at runtime

WinPython is something different from other Python Distributions (see historic motivation and concept):

    - non-invasive: WinPython lives entirely in its own directory, without any OS installation
    - customizable: add your missing packages, zip the WinPython directory and give it to your students
    - do your own version: a winpython-creator kit is made available for you

Tired of crappy mobile games full of ads, or semi-good games that try to squeeze as much money as possible out of you in the form of in-app purchases?

Lucky for, you No-Bullshit Games is here to help you discover good, non-annoying, enjoyable games.

This post is a detailed discussion into user profiles, their directories, and how they are—to put it bluntly—in total disarray on Windows and Linux (I haven't used a Mac in ages, but I assume the situation is very similar there, too). Applications treat the user profile as a dumping ground, and any user with a reasonably wide list of installed software will find their user profile very difficult to traverse after some time in use. There are platform conventions and attempts to standardise things on more open-source platforms, but a lot of developers resolutely refuse to change the behaviour of their software for a variety of reasons (some less valid than others).

The first part is a deep dive into user profiles on Linux and Windows, and the conventions that have been established on these platforms over the years. The second section details how they are broken on each platform, and why they are broken.

This page lets you simulate various color vision deficiencies (CVD) directly in your browser. There are many simulation methods, with varying degrees of accuracy. Several are proposed here and they all have been carefully implemented in DaltonLens-Python by reviewing the state-of-the-art and testing them against reference implementations.

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Earth has been a snowball and a hothouse at different times in its past. So if the climate changed before humans, how can we be sure we’re responsible for the dramatic warming that’s happening today?

In part it’s because we can clearly show the causal link between carbon dioxide emissions from human activity and the 1.28 degree Celsius (and rising) global temperature increase since preindustrial times.

But paleoclimatologists have also made great strides in understanding the processes that drove climate change in Earth’s past. Here’s a primer on 10 ways climate varies naturally, and how each compares with what’s happening now.

Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we've found useful when working on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.

[2000-08-09]

The Joel Test

1.    Do you use source control?
2.    Can you make a build in one step?
3.    Do you make daily builds?
4.    Do you have a bug database?
5.    Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6.    Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7.    Do you have a spec?
8.    Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9.    Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10.    Do you have testers?
11.    Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12.    Do you do hallway usability testing?

TeXcount is a Perl script for counting words in LaTeX documents. It parses valid LaTeX documents counting words, headers, formulae (mathematics) and floats/begin-end groups.

Collection of 39 single-player open-source logic puzzle games, free, no ads, playable offline.

All generated on demand with adjustable size/difficulty, so you'll never run out of puzzles.

Contains the following 39 games:
Black Box, Bridges, Cube, Dominosa, Fifteen, Filling, Flip, Flood, Galaxies, Guess, Inertia, Keen, Light Up, Loopy, Magnets, Map, Mines (Minesweeper), Net, Netslide, Palisade, Pattern, Pearl, Pegs (Solitaire), Range, Rectangles, Same Game, Signpost, Singles, Sixteen, Slant, Solo (Sudoku), Tents, Towers, Tracks, Twiddle, Undead, Unequal, Unruly, Untangle

On February 6th, 2018 SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster on a Mars crossing orbit. We perform N-body simulations to determine the fate of the object over the next several million years, under the relevant perturbations acting on the orbit. The orbital evolution is initially dominated by close encounters with the Earth. The first close encounter with the Earth will occur in 2091. The repeated encounters lead to a random walk that eventually causes close encounters with other terrestrial planets and the Sun. Long-term integrations become highly sensitive to the initial conditions after several such close encounters. By running a large ensemble of simulations with slightly perturbed initial conditions, we estimate the probability of a collision with Earth and Venus over the next one million years to be 6% and 2.5%, respectively. We estimate the dynamical lifetime of the Tesla to be a few tens of millions of years.

Verz handy online version of BabelMap.

An interactive guide to alternative voting systems.

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Le système tourne dans une machine virtuelle et évalue le comportement de l'exécutable, regarde les accès réseau, analyse d'eventuelles entropies trop élevée dans certaines parties du fichier (démontrant la présence d'un chiffrement ou d'une compression), etc.

The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture

This tip is really great:

"You’re going to find this hard to believe, but that built-in Windows app that will split-print an image for you is none other than Microsoft’s much-maligned Paint application!!"


   1. Open the image you’d like to print in Paint
   2. Select: Print -> Page Setup (Vista and 7), or File -> Page Setup (in XP)
   3. Under Scaling, select Fit to and change the setting to something like “2 by 2 page(s)”
   4. Click OK
   5. Print the image from Paint, and make sure to select “All Pages”

NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities, all of them developed by Nir Sofer.