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John Minter's Helpful Tips |
J. R. Minter |
Started: 2013-07-16, Last modified: 2020-01-25 |
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This repository contains the John Minter's useful tips in Rmarkdown format.
First, some quickies:
- Closed captions in CBS All access
Go to www.cbs.com. Find a full episode of a series that you're interested in and click on it. To turn the captions on, bring your cursor into the middle of the video to see the menu show up. Look for and click on the plus sign for "More" on the lower right hand side, click again on "CC captions" just once.
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The Feynman technique of learning:
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Step 1: Pick and study a topic
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Step 2: Explain the topic to someone, like a child, who is unfamiliar with the topic
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Step 3: Identify any gaps in your understanding
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Step 4: Review and Simplify!
More here...
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install command line tools on MacOS
xcode-select --install -
regex for youtube time stamps. Useful in SublimeText3!
\d\d:\d\d -
Symbolic links. I always get this backwards...
file link
ln -s source destination ```
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Fun snippets
Your closest colaborator is you, six months from now
... and you don't respond to email- Karl Broman
DRY (do not repeat yourself) vs WET (waste everyones time) coding styles
- Peter Baker (UseR 2018)
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Getting started with data science
- A very helpful article from Datacamp.
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Clear the Chrome Cache
- Press "CTRL" + "Shift" + "Delete" keys in Windows or Linux
- Press "Command" + "Shift" + "Delete"" keys on MacOS.
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Delete Specific Cookies in Chrome for Mac OS X
From osxdaily.com: You can remove a specific website cookie from Chrome by doing the following:
This skips several steps from original article!
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Open
chrome://settings/siteDataas a URL -
Scroll to look at the list or use the
Searchbox if you want to quickly find a specific site URL. -
To remove the cookie(s), then select the site and click the trash can icon to delete cookies for the site.
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Rinse and repeat for other sites...
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Avoid cookie placement and cache generation in the first place by using the Chrome
Incognito Modeprivate browsing feature.
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Automatically download all files in a directory
Let's also exclude all the index.html files...
wget -r --no-parent --reject "index.html*" http://my/url
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How to block someone on Facebook
- Click at the top right of Facebook and choose
Settings. - Click
Blockingin the left side menu. - In the
Blockusers setting, enter the name of the person you want to block and clickBlock. - Select the specific person you want to block ans click
Block > Block [name]
- Click at the top right of Facebook and choose
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