Trolls, Nikos, Ferrous Cranus

2013-10-02 Thread Alan Spence
Steven D'Aprano once wrote: > Definitely troll, and we got well and truly had. > > Shame on us -- he practically *screamed* "I am a troll" in his user-name. > "Ferrous Cranus" ("Iron Skull") is the name of a particular subspecies of > troll in Mike Reed's well known compendium: > > http://redwin

Re: Converting a string to a number by using INT (no hash method)

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Spence
On 22 Jan 2013, at 19:28, Ferrous Cranus wrote: > Τη Τρίτη, 22 Ιανουαρίου 2013 9:02:48 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Michael Torrie > έγραψε: >> On 01/22/2013 11:37 AM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: >> >>> == pin = int( >> >>> htmlpage.encode("hex"), 16 ) % 1 >

Re: [Offtopic] Line fitting [was Re: Numpy outlier removal]

2013-01-11 Thread Alan Spence
On 09 Jan 2013, at 00:02:11 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The point I keep making, that everybody seems to be ignoring, is that > eyeballing a line of best fit is subjective, unreliable and impossible to > verify. How could I check that the line you say is the "best fit" > actually *is* the *best