dark statistica

using this screenshot from g gundam for a wallpaper right now, kinda gave me a twin peaks moment

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i just read about semiconductors for two days and i still don't understand how they don't just run out. i get the movement of electron-hole pairs goes in one direction, and somehow limits the depletion zone with the electric field? and then electricity is generated. cool story, but does it just go on forever? when the n-type side exchanges enough electrons for holes, how does it keep going? or does it go back to normal when the panel is not receiving photons?? and i guess the electricity just comes from the electric field? is it really enough to provide energy and run the inverter to make that energy usable? if it gets too hot, does the semiconductor stop working? are these just questions nobody knows or won't admit they don't know? when did wild poodles roam the earth???

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haven't been feeling too hot so i am wrapping up this year just updating my wallpaper to december. this month i was really tired and wasn't able to finish the kaggle survey competition i wanted to do, but i learned a lot of things about python that i had forgotten or never knew. i started using Obsidian to keep a code journal and track what i had found, or what code worked. i found that most of the time i was wishing for either more functionality or better documentation for seaborn, but those challenges helped me discover other things (like the dython package) that could fill in some of the blanks. and i felt like i could have used scipy more? but it was a storytelling challenge, not a modelling challenge, so maybe that makes sense. i'm interested to see who wins this year, and i have a better idea of how i would go about it next year.

for this job, the client had coordinates and days, and wanted the sunset time attached to the dataframe. i was able to do it in about an hour, give or take the time i was reading the documentation for the suntime package. i went with a list because posts on stackoverflow said it's a lot faster than filling a dataframe -- as an analyst we don't consider O(n) as much as computer scientists, but the client said this code potentially would be used for a data set of billions of rows. sometimes, when you get to these big data sets, you start to notice the drag on the processing time. the computer definitely notices.

revamped but still nier automata style for october 🎃🍠

remember to take a break! new wallpaper coming soon for spooky month))

this is my first attempt at a nier automata-style wallpaper, which i've been wanting to do for a while. i like the simplicity, but i'm hoping to evolve it over time and add more elements from the menu screen.

Salvador Water by Gabriela Testa on Unsplash

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