Ordered merge of iterables in Python

Just found out about this cool feature in the Python standard library that allows you to merge two iterables based on a comparison: from heapq import merge as merge_heapwise some_numbers = (1, 5, 10, 15) other_numbers = (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16) merged_numbers = tuple(merge_heapwise(some_numbers, other_numbers)) # Using a tuple so comparisons work, for didactic demo reasons assert merged_numbers == (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, …

[DRAFT] Transcript: Lance Owens MD, “Jung, Tolkien, and the Hermeneutics of Vision”, 2015

“Jung, Tolkien and the Hermeneutics of Vision” Dr. Lance S. Owens 23 October 2015 California Institute of Integral Studies The Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Forum Transcribed from youtube.com/video/GxVaxOco7kg and adapted for the web [PUNCTUATION, GRAMMAR, AND QUALITY PASSES STILL WIP] by James Edington in 2023 Opening Remarks (A shout out to my introduction speaker tonight, Becca; the stuff she has done on Jung, The Red Book, and Tolkien is …

Blanket anti-hacking laws

I am not a lawyer, much less a cyber lawyer, but I was recently wondering “are there any laws—especially federal ones—that cover just plain old Hacking per se?” Say someone breaks into your blog, maybe they look at your drafts, maybe they deface the front page… is that, in and of itself, a crime no matter where in the United States your attacker is? The answer is—Yes! 18 USC …

Transcript: Vanessa Vokey Livestream Jan '22

Archiving because I saw some online trolls trying to take down the video with a brigade of false reports; content not endorsed.

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