A simple guide in Python — When you Google how to do this, all these companies pop up, offering to do this for you if you pay them a small fee. But Twitter gives you all the tools you need to do it yourself—for free. …

A short guide to using Stanford’s MOSS — When classes moved online in 2020, academic institutions across the country watched as the rate of cheating soared. …

The 100 most popular memes that helped us get through Pandemic Year One — A few days after the WHO formally declared the COVID-19 pandemic in March, some friends and I began collecting memes about it in a public Facebook album. Initially, I shared the memes just for laughs—like, look at this absurd, unprecedented situation we’ve ended up in, we’re being told to stay…

Twitter Reacts to Our Newest Reality TV Show — Yesterday Netflix released Deaf U, which is not your average reality TV show. Immediately, you get dropped into rich and vibrant Deaf culture, where hands fly with sign language, and a controversial social hierarchy exists based on one’s degree of cultural Deafness. But like almost every other reality TV show…

Walking the fine line between satire and reality — In this post, we write Python code to generate fake news headlines, using a Markov chain model trained on a corpus of real headlines from The New York Times over the past year. Some of these fake headlines: I Used to Hold Hands? ‘We’re Going Down, Down, Down’ We All…

With Python3 and the MacOS X command line — Since its inception in 1991, arXiv, the main database for scientific preprints, has received almost 1.3 million submissions. All of this data can be useful in analysis, so we may want to be able to access the full-texts in bulk. …

And why the library currently cannot — The problem If you try to plot emojis, you might see something like this: Although we explicitly specified it as the font, these emojis are not Apple Color Emoji. …