Archives Oct. 23, 2008
Is "Boredom" Instinctual?
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Design Theory.
A few days ago one of my colleagues mentioned a scholarly article he'd read the night before. Researchers were attempting to show a genetic link for thrill-seeking (novelty-seeking) behaviour with some success. That is, for their definition of "novelty-seeking" they seemed to have discovered a relationship between (IIRC a particular gene) and the behaviour in ...
PyGTA Tonight: You got Python in my XML!
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Snaking.
How would you merge large quantities of Python-accessible information into a pre-existing set of XML documents. This approach combined lxml.etree (ElementTree) with Kid templates (based on ElementTree) to efficiently annotate a large tree of documents. We'll look at how to use ElementTree (and how to use the query mechanism in lxml's implementation to search your ...