Author: Stephanie
Apple, China & ‘Made In America’: Not So Easy – At The Moment
If ‘Made in America’ is to become more than a slogan for the production of highly technical engineered components, it will require substantial training, specialized robotics systems, an entirely new infrastructure and someone to sell it to the American people.
Read More »Four rules for fixing America in 2019
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that social media’s impact on American society is dubious at best. To offset its worst aspects, I set forth 4 rules of conduct I believe should be adopted at large.
Read More »A Picture Is Indeed Worth A Thousand Words: Hans Rosling
This short video is well worth your time: it features the inimitable Hans Rosling depicting the past 200 years of global progress as measured by wealth and increasing lifespans. Slick, slick production:
Read More »Priceless: David Ortiz & 2018 Boston Redsox ALCS
I have nothing to add: Big Papi reacting to that JBJ @RedSox grand slam is everything. pic.twitter.com/lZNUwLmpG8 — FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 17, 2018
Read More »Another day, another mishap: Python Kernel – Jupyter Notebook
I generally use an Anaconda environment to manage my scripting environments and package dependencies. I decided to give a dashboard-building application a try and wound up with a broken Python kernel when I invoked Jupyter Notebook (see below):…
Read More »I’m A Linux System Administrator – And Not By Design…
I possess an amazing capacity to get myself into trouble, computer trouble to be specific. This time, I found myself unable to run terminal app (macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6) or any of my other processes (VPN, Google…
Read More »I’m Infamous – Thanks To Amazon Web Services!!!!
I recently wrote about transitioning this little ‘ol blog you are reading to Amazon’s Lightsail platform. Well what do you know, out of the blue I was subsequently contacted by Mike Coleman, a member of the AWS Lightsail…
Read More »I’ll Be Attending DevConf.us2018 @…
For those of you interested in devcon-related issues, consider attending DevConf.us2018 at Boston University. Sponsored by Redhat and Boston University. Check it out and ping me on Twitter. There’s another event taking place in September; check it out!
Read More »Where is Stephanie Today? – Washington, D.C., NASA Headquarters
This post is written as I prepare to attend NASA’s 2018 Earth Science Application Showcase at it’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. My research involves honey bees: their fertility, longevity, productivity and overall prosperity. Of especial interest: the central role…
Read More »AWS Lightsail – I’ve Made the Transition (finally).
I decided to save myself a few bucks by moving this little old website of mine to the aws platform. At the advice of a friend, I chose Amazon’s Lightsail platform. Lightsail’s current price is $5.00/month and the…
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