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These are my notes on the talks “Simple Made Easy” by Rich Hickey.

Our attention spans are short.

I could not get reliable connections with docker-machine or docker context.

Docker runs as root.

I wrote my degree dissertation in jupyter notebooks.

Manage conda environments and Jupyterlab easily.

We live in a fast changing world, everyone seems to be working on the next big thing while you still haven’t got used to the previous big thing.

The story of a bug fix.

Some problems are harder than others, but having a system to approach them makes a big difference.

When dealing with a multilingual dataset doing language identification is a very important part of the analysis process, here I’ll show a way to do a fast ⚡️ and reliable ✨ language identification with fasttext.

There is a little trick I just found about, which I think can be very useful when you split tasks across different notebooks.

After nearly a year coding in Python (although not consistently), I started trying code formatters and discovered they were more useful than I thought.

My name is Ricardo Ander-Egg Aguilar.