Bart Willems 

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Who am I? Dutch guy, living in the US since the early 2000's. Business analyst by day, KSP rocket scientist by night.

Former Excel guru; I still know more than you'll ever forget but I prefer working in #Pandas and building automated reports in #Python.

Big fan of the #Expanse (both the TV show and the books)

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Bart Willems Mar 29, 2023
Robert ReichMar 29, 2023

Is it just me, or do the deficit hawks in Washington magically disappear when Republicans are in charge and explode the national debt?

The notion that the GOP actually cares about the deficit is one of the biggest lies in American politics.

Show threadBart Willems Mar 21, 2023
@rbreich it's funny how the Right's reluctance to accept scientiicf theories - evolution, vaccines, global warming, where "alternative views should be studied as well" goes out of the window with this economic theory.
Bart Willems Jan 25, 2023
@AlSweigart finally someone asking the *real* questions! While on the subject, why do they refer to text as “a string of characters” and not just “text?” It’s not like Python has a `char` type - those are just text variables with a length of 1.
Show threadBart Willems Jan 20, 2023
@mgorny for readability probably the best way is to embed it in a "remove_extra_spaces" function and then implement it as desired.
Show threadBart Willems Jan 16, 2023
@alasaarela "But how will people vote for us if we teach them to recognize misinformation?"
Bart Willems Jan 4, 2023

@s_gruppetta when I grew up, high school math rapidly turned to algebra, trigonometry and geometry, a big turnoff for many. It's like exposing fresh readers to Nietzsche.

The trick is to find *real* real-world problems. Not trains riding from A to B, but which of five pokemon is the best? What fortnight gun gets you most bang for the buck? What was the most popular movie in scvhool? Do the results differ from year to year?
"That, too, is math, and why you need to practice at it."

Bart Willems Dec 28, 2022
@AlSweigart I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Bart Willems Dec 28, 2022
When the person you're insulting is half a decade past being the little schoolgirl you think you can intimidate. #savage
Bart Willems Dec 26, 2022
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 26, 2022
A tale of two presidents.
Bart Willems Dec 25, 2022
Just upgraded to #python 3.11 for windows. Apparently, after many headaches in 3.10, the support for windows .chm help files has been deprecated very silently. Not a big deal, but mentioning it would have saved me some work figuring out where those files went.