Trigrams, Bigrams and Ngrams in Python for Text Analysis
Creating trigrams in Python is very simple
trigrams = lambda a: zip(a, a[1:], a[2:])
trigrams(('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'))
# => [('a', 'b', 'c'), ('b', 'c', 'd'), ('c', 'd', 'e'), ('d', 'e', 'f')]
You can generalize this a little bit more
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/06/2017
How to Read and Write to a Single Cell Using PHP and Google Spreadsheets API
This post assumes you've created a project with Google's web console and downloaded a client_secret.json file from the credentials page. If not, more info is here..
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/03/google-spreadsheets-and-php.html
Note: The tuto...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/11/2018
Simple String Concatenation of a Collection Written as a Helper for Rails
At Railsconf last week I took Greg Pollack's online course Rails Best Practices. The interface is gorgeous and the instructions are excellent. One of the lessons involved taking a partial and moving it into a helper. I was reminded how difficult such a si...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Render Partial if File Exists
If you ever want to render a partial but don't want an error thrown you can either check for the existence of the file first
params[:controller]+"/sidebar" if File.exists?(RAILS_ROOT+"/app/views/"+params[:controller]+"/_sidebar.html.erb") %>
or you ca...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Color Output with Test:Unit, AutoTest and Ruby 1.9
If you are testing using Test:Unit (rather than RSpec) and you're using Ruby 1.9.* colorized output of your tests using Autotest will not be immediately available. Since, 1.9 comes with mini test the test/unit/ui/console/testrunner.rb script is not loaded...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
