Programming Leftovers
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Finding the BESTEST sine function for Nintendo 64
YouTube gave me the video “Finding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64” yesterday, and while I thought the title was very intriguing, I came away a bit disappointed; the video is hardly about the specifics of Nintendo 64 at all, and the author mostly spends time comparing straight-up LUTs with some hand-made splines under a proxy metric (no real comparative benchmarks, hardly any numerics).
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Python Statistics Standard Deviation
The “statistics.stdev()” method of the “statistics” module is used to determine the standard deviation of a sample of data in Python.
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Python Setattr() Function
Python “setattr()” function sets the specified object's attribute value. This function creates an attribute that does not present and assigns a value
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Python set intersection_update() Method
The set.intersection_update()” method is utilized in Python to remove/eliminate the uncommon items from all the given sets.
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Python String encode() Method
The “string.encode()” method is utilized to encode a specified string into a sequence of bytes based on the particular encoding.
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Python Self Parameter
The “self” is a reference to the current instance of the class and is used to access variables and functions that belong to the class.
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Python os path isdir
The “os.path.isdir()” method of the “os” module is used to check whether a given/specified path is an existing directory or not.
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Python Nonlocal Keyword
The “nonlocal keyword” is used to work with variables inside nested functions, where the variable should not belong to the inner function.
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Enumerate python examples
The “enumerate()” function is utilized in Python to count the elements of the specified iterable and returns the count and the item together.
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Python Random Seed
The “random.seed()” method reproduces the random function result again and again, as this function initializes the pseudo-random number generator of Python.
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Python issubclass() Function
The built-in Python “issubclass()” function is utilized to verify whether the particular class is the subclass of another particular class.
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Python Print List
The “for” loop, “* Operator”, “List Comprehension” technique, and “join()” method is employed to print the list in Python.
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Python String islower() Method
The Python “string.islower()” method checks whether the string contains all lowercase letters or at least one uppercase letter by retrieving “True” and “False”.
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Python OS Path Split
The “os.path.split()” method of the “os” module is used to split/separate a specified path and return a tuple containing the head and tail of the path.
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Python Splitlines
The “string.splitlines()” method in Python splits or breaks the given string at line break and retrieves the list object.