Just crontab it, and you'll get full updated archive of your friends in one text file.
Well-Timed Life
productivity. psychology. programming.
Thursday 12 April 2012
Save friends' tweets in a file
Just crontab it, and you'll get full updated archive of your friends in one text file.
Monday 2 April 2012
Twitter Spy
Tired of reading billions of tweets to select only those you want to read? Take a few steps to get all tweets with the given keywords in a text file:
1. Install tweepy library that implements Twitter Streaming API in Python.
2. Get the following code:
3. Register your app on dev.twitter.com (You will neet to put your twitter login and password there)
4. Get four oAuth keys from there (consumer key and secret, access token and access secret) and put it in the code above
5. Create an empty tweets.txt file
6. Write down your keywords in the last line
7. run python yourapp.py
8 ???
9. PROFIT !!!
Thursday 29 March 2012
"Pluggin' the hole " day
Take a day a week to complete least important, someday-maybe-later, low priority tasks. Go for quantity instead of quality. Do as quick as possible, multitask. Clean all of your inboxes, todo-lists. Get rid of the cluttering tasks. Old bills? Throw away papers? Unpleasant calls? Plug all the leaks to get more focused on what's important tommorrow.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Simple dictionary quicksort in Python
Bloody simple and quick algorithm to sort items. I used it to sort dictionary elements by values, so pass .items() as the parameters
Monday 26 March 2012
Simple log using Python and Google Spreadsheets
gspread can be installed from PyPI (easy_install gspread OR pip install gspread). To make it work you should fill in your Google credentials, and create a spreadsheet named LOG in your Google Docs account
Scherer's typology of affective states
Classifying human's affective states is a quite tough problem. Recently I've discovered some splendid methods invented by Dr. Klaus Scherer, director of Swiss Center for Affective Sciences. The first way of classification implies two-dimensional space based on activity and evaluation axes, as shown below.
A more detailed approach splits all the affective states into five categories: Emotion, Mood, Interpersonal Stances, Attitudes, and Personality Traits.
Emotion: Is the episode relatively brief of synchronized responses for all or most organic systems to the evaluation of an external or internal event as being of major significance. Emotion’s examples are anger, sadness, joy, fear, shame, pride, elation and desperation.
Mood: Is a diffuse affective state that consists in the subjective feeling changing, with low intensity, but long duration without apparent cause. Dipert (1998) considers that moods differ from emotions most strongly in not having an intentional object. Their causes are typically conceptual or evaluative (things are or are not going well). He mentions some examples of moods: cheerful, gloomy, irritable, listless, de-pressed, and buoyant.
Interpersonal Stance: The interpersonal stance is an affective position in relation to the other person in a specific interaction. Distant, cold, warm, supportive and contemptuous are examples of interpersonal stances.
Attitudes: Attitudes are relatively tolerant, affectively coloured beliefs, preferences and predisposition in relation to objects or people. Examples of attitudes are liking, loving, hating, desiring and valuing
Personality Traits: Personality traits are emotionally laden, stable personality dis-positions and behavior tendencies, typical of a person. For example: nervous, anxious, reckless, morose, hostile, envious and jealousy.
Sources:
Friday 23 March 2012
Thursday 22 March 2012
Merge Livejournals
Got too many livejournal accounts? Nice python utility LJMigrate can help you quickly. Just write from and to accounts, run ljmigrate.py and -- here you go, you have one place for all
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Online classes I currently take
I am fond of Stanford's online classes appeared after ai-class.org project. Now I am going through Udacity's CS101 Building Search Engine taught by David Evans, Natural Language Processing by Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning, as well as Chuck Eesley's Venture Lab devoted to Technology Enterpreneurship.
All of these classes include - video lectures, online quizzes and homeworks. Udacity class is perfect for beginners in programming and computer science. It tells what a computer is , what is memory, what is gigahertz, how to write simple code in Python, how to build different data structures and so on. I like that this is a goal-driven course - and you'll get your own web search engine by the end of this class. The second, NLP class, has been delayed twice for about two months, but finally it has started. There's also python homeworks there, but the most valuable is good theoretical review on language modelling and focusing on building of simple, but working applications - data-scraping, language-modelling and so on. The latter class has not started yet, but Chuck promises a lots of teamwork and practical assignments for the future brins and zuckerbergs.
All of these classes include - video lectures, online quizzes and homeworks. Udacity class is perfect for beginners in programming and computer science. It tells what a computer is , what is memory, what is gigahertz, how to write simple code in Python, how to build different data structures and so on. I like that this is a goal-driven course - and you'll get your own web search engine by the end of this class. The second, NLP class, has been delayed twice for about two months, but finally it has started. There's also python homeworks there, but the most valuable is good theoretical review on language modelling and focusing on building of simple, but working applications - data-scraping, language-modelling and so on. The latter class has not started yet, but Chuck promises a lots of teamwork and practical assignments for the future brins and zuckerbergs.
Leo Babauta's Focus
If you want to build your own personal productivity system, there's another good book to read : "Focus. A simplicity manifesto in the age of distraction". Leo promotes minimalism for several years in his Zenhabits blog. This book is mostly about creating simple, distraction-free single-tasking, goal-free, effortless environment and habits. I love the idea of information cleansing and building relevant information stream. I doubt if 118 pages is the simplest and least way to describe such things, but the book definitely worth reading. Or skimming, at least
Tuesday 20 March 2012
New productivity system: Getting Results (the Agile Way)
Getting Results is an awesome productivity system for hard infoworkers from the Microsoft guy J.D. Meier . It is simple, focused, principle-driven, bringing best software agile pm practices for the personal efficiency
Command-Line Google
Just found GoogleCL to access Google services (e.g. blogger, calendar, docs, contacts) from command line. Written in Python
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Finally I passed the Final Exam on ai-class.com
That (as it seems to me now) was fairly easy, except a couple of questions, which I realized was slightly above my level. The course ended. It was my first experience of taking so long online courses.
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