I am studying Bayes‘ theorem in school right now, probably for the third or fourth time. Nevertheless, like many aspects of mathematics, (and everything I suppose) I think I learn it just a little bit differently and better each time. The big realization for me on this occasion is that the theorem is succinctly and [...]

I am reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. right now, and it is truly a great book. It is a biography of Rockefeller (of course), but it is the most engaging, novelistic biography I’ve ever read. Ron Chernow did a wonderful job. If you want more reason to pick it up (or [...]

Sorry for the long delay (first post, second post)! I just started school again (senior year!), so the last few weeks have been packing, finding an apartment, moving in, choosing classes, actually going to class, et cetera et cetera. Anyway, the following examples are really just pretty wrappers for functionality included in the raw Spreadsheets [...]

This post is a continuation of this one. Last time I finished with acquiring your AuthSub session token, and now I’ll show you how to use it to manipulate your spreadsheet. Reading Your Spreadsheet It’s really easy to read one of your spreadsheet’s cells, especially with RESTClient. You just need to know your spreadsheet’s ID, [...]

There have been some discussions about this already, notably a QCon presentation, but a redundant tutorial or two never hurt a soul. This is for the Python version of App Engine, but it shouldn’t be much different for Java. Why? App Engine datastore writes are really expensive, and prohibitively so for something like custom statistics. [...]