Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Cojones + Yiddish = Chutzpa

2023-Sep-17

The only update this time is a fix to the links generated for each artist at the bottom of /dash/art_cat/. Matching the variables between my regular Flask work with the Plotly-Dash section has been my Gordian Knot in my codebase. Well… one of many. I have an idea to make a shell outer Flask app that imports my Flask app and the Plotly-Dash app(which is a Flask app itself under the covers). I’ll define a variable that switches between the local address I use for development and the actual URL I use in production.

I think I can have some Deadwood word embedding analysis ready tomorrow. I had monkeyed around the word2vec for a few days now trying to get an accurate mapping of the similarity of significant words among that show’s transcripts. I have a model training on just one episode now and it is taking longer than I hoped. I might have to run a job overnight on my home PC.

American Midnight by Adam Hochschild has been an easy read. The subject matter plays so well to my political science tastes that I burned through the book in less than a week. It played a little too well to my tastes. Holding rancor for the behavior of the actors in US history is not something I need extra motivation to find. The author spends a little bit too much time imparting onto the reader just how unprecedented or unique the sordidness he was describing was to world history. I’m always looking for ways to cut fat on a book and the extra literary sprinkles of USA=bad are not needed when an eloquent reporting of the facts alone could do the job.