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TIL (Today I Learned)

The TIL series of articles contains very short articles documenting something I learned “today”.

TIL #033 – transposed convolution

Today I learned about the transposed convolution transformation in CNNs.

TIL #032 – t-SNE for dimensionality reduction

Today I learned about t-SNE for dimensionality reduction.

TIL #031 – understanding SVG viewBox

Today I understood how the viewBox of SVGs really works.

TIL #029 – True is equal to 1

Today I learned that True is equal to 1 and False is equal to 0.

TIL #028 – disassemble Python.

Today I learned how to disassemble Python code with the module dis.

TIL #027 – get rich with Python.

Today I learned how to use the package rich by Will McGugan.

TIL #026 – web apps with streamlit

Today I learned that you can build web apps with Python using streamlit.

TIL #025 – reversed emoji flags

Today I learned that the reverse of some flag emoji are other flags!

TIL #024 – cooking with asyncio

Today I learned how to cook with asyncio and async code in Python.

TIL #023 – how to use namedtuple

Today I learned how to use the namedtuple from the module collections.

TIL #022 – Python module selectors

Today I learned about the Python module selectors to manage multiple socket connections.

TIL #021 – Spouge's formula

Today I learned about Spouge's formula to approximate the factorial.

TIL #020 – open(0)

Today I learned you can read from stdin with open(0).

TIL #019 – sockets

Today I learned the basics of socket programming (in Python).

TIL #018 – suppressing errors with contextlib

Today I learned that the module contextlib provides with a context manager to suppress specified errors.

TIL #017 – symmetrical indexing with bitwise inversion

Today I learned about the symmetry in indexing from the beginning and end of a list with the bitwise invert operator.

TIL #016 – Quicksort in functional programming

Today I learned how to write the Quicksort algorithm in a weird functional style.

TIL #015 – DARPA network challenge

Today I learned about the DARPA network challenge and the power of referral systems.

TIL #014 – reading files with pathlib

Today I learned you can use pathlib to read the contents of a file.