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Load separate files #

data.Field parameters is here.

When calling build_vocab, torchtext will add <unk> in vocabulary list. Set unk_token=None if you want to remove it. If sequential=True (default), it will add <pad> in vocab. <unk> and <pad> will add at the beginning of vocabulary list by default.

After Inoreader change the free plan, which limit the max subscription to 150, I begin to find an alternative. Finally, I found Tiny Tiny RSS. It has a nice website and has the fever API Plugin which was supported by most of the RSS reader app, so you can read RSS on all of you devices.

Using the right Emacs Version #

I failed to preview LaTeX with emacs-plus. If you have installed d12frosted/emacs-plus, uninstall it and use emacs-mac.

brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport
brew install emacs-mac

If you like the fancy spacemacs icon, install it with cask: brew cask install emacs-mac-spacemacs-icon

PyTorch provide a simple DQN implementation to solve the cartpole game. However, the code is incorrect, it diverges after training (It has been discussed here).

The official code’s training data is below, it’s high score is about 50 and finally diverges.

Recently, I found a really good example code for Python circular import, and I’d like to record it here.

Here is the code:

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# X.py
def X1():
    return "x1"

from Y import Y2

def X2():
    return "x2"

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# Y.py
def Y1():
    return "y1"

from X import X1

def Y2():
    return "y2"

Guess what will happen if you run python X.py and python Y.py?

Overview #

1. CPython allocation memory to save dictionary, the initial table size is 8, entries are saved as <hash,key,value> in each slot(The slot content changed after Python 3.6).
2. When a new key is added, python use i = hash(key) & mask where mask=table_size-1 to calculate which slot it should be placed. If the slot is occupied, CPython using a probing algorithm to find the empty slot to store new item.
3. When 2/3 of the table is full, the table will be resized.
4. When getting item from dictionary, both hash and key must be equal.

Resizing #

When elements size is below 50000, the table size will increase by a factor of 4 based on used slots. Otherwise, it will increase by a factor of 2. The dictionary size is always \(2^{n}\).

PyTorch is a really powerful framework to build the machine learning models. Although some features is missing when compared with TensorFlow (For example, the early stop function, History to draw plot), its code style is more intuitive.

Torchtext is a NLP package which is also made by pytorch team. It provide a way to read text, processing and iterate the texts.

CSRF(Cross-site request forgery) is a way to generate fake user request to target website. For example, on a malicious website A, there is a button, click it will send request to www.B.com/logout. When the user click this button, he will logout from website B unconsciously. Logout is not a big problem, but malicious website can generate more dangerous request like money transfer.

Recently, I’m working on a neo4j project. I use Py2neo to interact with graph db. Although Py2neo is a very Pythonic and easy to use, its performance is really poor. Sometimes I have to manually write cypher statement by myself if I can’t bear with the slow execution. Here is a small script which I use to compare the performance of 4 different ways to insert nodes.

Recently, I enjoy using Spacemacs, so I decided to switch to org file from Markdown for writing blog. After several attempts, I managed to let Travis convert org file to HTML. Here are the steps.

Install Org Mode plugin #

First you need to install Org Mode plugin on your computer following the official guide: Nikola orgmode plugin.