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Grocist Updates

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I’ve fixed the issue where if you log in on one computer, you get logged off any other computers. You can now be logged into Grocist from as many computers as you want (up to 10).
Please let me know right away if you have any issues logging in, out, or otherwise.
I’ve […]

FedBayes - Models Updated with Latest FOMC Statements

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

I created a little Bayesian interest rate predictor in Python a while back.
Today I updated the models with the latest FOMC meeting statements. I also spruced up the code a bit.
Here are the latest code, models, and data:
FedBayes.zip (~140 KB)
Here are the latest predictions for what will happen at the next meeting:
Rate Change […]

Utility Mill Gets Imports

Thursday, July 5th, 2007


You now have access to the following libraries when you write a Utility Mill utility:
re, datetime, time, calendar, difflib, math, urllib, and random
Thus here’s the code for the Regex Evaluator utility:

regex=re.compile(REGEX)
matches=regex.finditer(TEXT)
for match in matches:
print ‘Found “%s” at position %s’ % (match.group(),match.start())


I also just made a text diff utility with the newly […]

New DIY Paper Sleeve for Your Just One Club Card

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

As you probably know, my website Just One Club Card lets you combine all of your club cards into one card. The final product looks like this:

The Problem:
Sometimes the barcode scanners at stores get confused and don’t know which barcode on the card to read. People have tried all kinds of solutions from […]

Newest Project - Lost Elf - Search All the Mapping Sites at Once

Monday, March 12th, 2007


Update: Lost Elf has been moved to http://utilitymill.com/utility/Driving_Directions_Compare to save me money on hosting costs It still has all the same functionality though it’s not quite as pretty.
I’m pleased to announce our newest web application: Lost Elf.

What is it?
Have you ever wondered if you were using the right website to get your […]