I’ve always been interested in sciences and technology. When I was young, my favorite heroes (before knowing about super-heroes) were Captain Nemo in Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” who conceived and built the submarine « Nautilus » and Cyrus Smith, the awesome engineer in “The Mysterious Island” (same author) who, after a shipwreck on a desert island, was able to produce, with the help of three companions, glass, nitroglycerine, … (a sort of Mc Gyver on steroid).
So, after studying engineering (of course) I started working as a programmer (at that time COBOL was part of IT syllabus, not dead language’s one) then I switched to Telco, then I became manager, then I quitted Tech domain,…anyway I am now far away from tech and I miss it.
Few years ago, I bought a Mac book air (Yes, yes, I know, please don’t troll). Thanks to this computer, I find my wardrobe to go back to Narnia : Terminal. Of course I don’t mean fauns, beavers, and bragging lion, but of a profusion of softwares to develop and create, free and/or open, and after finding Homebrew, a piece of cake to install.
After binging on discovering, testing and answering essential questions : vim or emacs (that’s Vim : yes, yes, I know, please don’t troll), python or R, RStudio or Jupyter notebook, Latex or Markdown, and so on, I managed to clear out a few concrete objectives:
- Working with Vim, Markdown and use Pandoc with a hint of CSS and html to publish an ebook on Amazon (done in 2017 : that’s the numeric version of a public domain book, about lores and legends in Carnac, a town in Britanny, France)
- Try python and panda to analyse data (done in 2014) in my job
- being up to speed in statistics and data science (start 2016. No ending planned)
- Learning R programmation (start 2017. No ending planed at the day)
- practice and improve english (so the bilingual version of this blog)
- Setting up a site and/or blog : done with this blog (domain name and hosting in 2016, first post : 2018 : if that’s not procrastination…)
…and see where all these things lead me.
I’ll post on my thoughts, projects and activities about those domaines, and, very likely, on everything I’ll think about through my readings, news,… and now…
Let’s see what happens!
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