Miguel Amigot mamigot

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

The Solution

As it turns out, there are several open-source tools that allow for conversion between file types. Pandoc is one of them, and it's powerful. In fact, pandoc's website says "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife." But, although pandoc can convert from markdown into .docx, it doesn't work in the other direction.

OAUTH2

The Problem

I’m a web app that wants to allow other web apps access to my users’ information, but I want to ensure that the user says it’s ok.

The Solution

I can’t trust the other web apps, so I must interact with my users directly. I’ll let them know that the other app is trying to get their info, and ask whether they want to grant that permission. Oauth defines a way to initiate that permission verification from the other app’s site so that the user experience is smooth. If the user grants permission, I issue an AuthToken to the other app which it can use to make requests for that user's info.

Note on encryption

Oauth2 has nothing to do with encryption -- it relies upon SSL to keep things (like the client app’s shared_secret) secure.

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

#Container Resource Allocation Options in docker-run

now see: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#runtime-constraints-on-resources

You have various options for controlling resources (cpu, memory, disk) in docker. These are principally via the docker-run command options.

##Dynamic CPU Allocation -c, --cpu-shares=0
CPU shares (relative weight, specify some numeric value which is used to allocate relative cpu share)

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	*.axf
	*.htm
	*.Inp
	*.map
	*.tra
	*.dep
	*.__i
	*.crf
	*.d
	*.o

	"""
	This module provides a simple WSGI profiler middleware for finding
	bottlenecks in web application. It uses the profile or cProfile
	module to do the profiling and writes the stats to the stream provided

	To use, run `flask_profiler.py` instead of `app.py`

	see: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/0.9/contrib/profiler/
	and: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-xvi-debugging-testing-and-profiling
	"""

	"""
	Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
	BSD License
	"""
	import numpy as np

	# data I/O
	data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
	chars = list(set(data))
	data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)

	# Note – this is not a bash script (some of the steps require reboot)
	# I named it .sh just so Github does correct syntax highlighting.
	#
	# This is also available as an AMI in us-east-1 (virginia): ami-cf5028a5
	#
	# The CUDA part is mostly based on this excellent blog post:
	# http://tleyden.github.io/blog/2014/10/25/cuda-6-dot-5-on-aws-gpu-instance-running-ubuntu-14-dot-04/

	# Install various packages
	sudo apt-get update

Miguel Amigot mamigot

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

The Solution

OAUTH2

The Problem

The Solution

Note on encryption

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

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