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My HIPC 2018 experience

The HIPC Conference this year (2018) was held at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bangalore, India from 17-20 December. This year, HIPC celebrated its 25th year of running and it was amazing.

--WIP--

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So, I looked up a lot of links while learning how to configure Gunicorn and Nginx for a Flask app I'm building. An article on the specifics of what I learnt will follow this one. This one focuses on the links and resources themselves -

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Memory Monitor Widget Using Python

I use Ubuntu 16.04 and I've been searching for a good memory monitoring desktop widget to no avail. I found a couple of taskbar widgets but none that would tell me the free memory left in addition to the used/swap/cache memories.

So I decided to write my own (with loads of help from the Internet of course).

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Surprising Searches 1 of n

You’re probably aware of most of the products that Google offers. Trends, is one of them and it allows you to look up various trends of searches by time, country etc. It’s a lot of fun…if you’re into that sort of thing.

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Studying The Show About Nothing

I have watched and re-watched Seinfeld over and over for the last 6–7 years now and it remains, till date, one of my most favorite shows. For a show that claims to be about nothing, it has certainly managed to fill up nine seasons worth of content, all with seemingly no plot.

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Data Visualization Exp2

Alright. Round 2 . FIGHT!

So, the last time, I figured out, unintentionally, at what times of the day most of my posts happened. This time, I again unintentionally got results different from what I set out to do — I’ll get to this eventually I guess, but for now, the objective is obtaining a measure of the number of posts I make per day and thereby see if I can figure out which days of the week have been the most (least?) productive. Of course, this is still a step away from my eventual goal (hopefully Experiment 3 should sort it out). Let’s get to the methodology —