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A (crappy) Markua 0.10 to LaTeX conversion script

This gist has a Python script I created to convert my book, Zefs Guide to Deep Learning from Markua 0.10 in LaTeX. It works, but maybe not for you. But maybe if you mess with it, it can suit your needs.

I wrote my book in Leanpub's Markua 0.10 markup language and am publishing the ebook there, but I decided that I wanted to publish a paperback in a smaller size via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. Unfortunately, none of the smaller print sizes that Leanpub supports are the same as the smaller print sizes that KDP will print, so in order to create a "pocket-sized" book, I needed to generate my own PDF file.

The most recommended way to do this is via pandoc. Unfortunately, pandoc does not support converting from Markua to LaTeX (although they supposedly support the other direction). While pandoc does support markdown to LaTeX, I found that there were

What's hard about hiring data roles

Roy Keyes

9 Aug 2021 - This is a post on my blog. Get the RSS feed!

Hiring is hard and data hiring has special challenges

I wrote a book

Roy Keyes

14 July 2021 - This is a post on my blog. Get the RSS feed!

I never really set out to write a book.

I wrote a book. A book about hiring. You can buy it at dshiring.com.

Notifications with Keybase: You get a puppy!

Roy Keyes

22 July 2020 - This is a post on my blog. Grab the RSS feed here 😉

Recently one of my relatives really wanted a dog. Not just any dog, but a specific puppy at an animal shelter in town. The problem was that the dog was not yet available for adoption, as the shelter was still waiting some amount of time in the event that the dog's owner would claim it. That basically meant we could call the shelter to check the status or keep checking the shelter's website.

Are you lazy enough to get a dog?

It's 2020 and I made an RSS feed for my blog (with Python)

Roy Keyes

21 May 2020 - This is a post on my blog. Grab the RSS feed here 😉

I was recently telling someone about all of the awesome blog posts I have sitting in my backlog, just waiting to actually be written. They asked if there was a way to subscribe or get notified when my next post was live. The answer was "watch my Twitter", which was admittedly unsatisfactory.

Coincidentally I have been seeing a number of recent articles on the desire for more independent blog content and a return to RSS-based syndication. I think this is all part of a broader push for a (return to a?) m

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am roycoding on github.
I am roycoding (https://keybase.io/roycoding) on keybase.
I have a public key ASCG1vUl8yOBMIxO_ZbxVQMM_o4o82YhmpLQ7lhGZiqtHAo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	def sandwich(df, rows=3):
	'''
	Display n rows of head and tail of dataframe.

	Input:
	df - dataframe of interest
	rows - integer number of rows from each end of dataframe to display

	Output:
	dataframe