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29/08/2020 - negative

 anxiety. worry. frustration. boredom. apathy. arousal. restlessness. irritability. stress. relaxed. tired.

28/08/2020 - node api masterclass on udemy

 ok technically it is 29aug but it is wee hours of the morning been having poor sleep hygiene and poor sleep whatsapp and group chats give me anxiety, i hate them web dev ok so brad traversy's udemy node api masterclass i took his nodejs/express/mongo course before, it is similar difference how to clean up controllers more mongodb operations / object oriented mongodb doesn't have passportjs / 3rd party authentication you can also supplement it with express in action by evan hahn, it covers all the expressjs stuff file upload and renaming passportjs / 3rd party auth etc just read the book, its worth it. github is here but i don't think the code is very readable  if you want the front end to be better you can stack on react/graphql/sass or some other css/ui library or bootstrap classes

27/08/2020 - 6 months course

hi its me your shameless snail unemployed web dev wannabe i applied for sg skills ignition squared online digital marketing 6months vocational training and managed to land a slot. so i be learning from sep to mar next year. until now i'm still unclear on whether there are any physical classes. i know some sessions are online live sessions. no more excuses, snail, time to boost up your web site portfolio T-T i have too much to learn front end components back end routing and express deployment seo and copywriting digital marketing data analytics with tableau data crunching with pandas, matplotlib, seaborn at the same time, i am under this sg gov sponsored career coaching program. can't remember what i signed up for. so far: - met my assigned coach, she asked me about my objectives and told me to try and land a part time or internship before the course ends - she mentioned she did have some leads if i wanted to go into the marketing line. - also signed me up for some career coach...

21/08/2020 - pandas

 ok so now i am moving on to pandas its rather similar to excel and sql RESOURCES user guide https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/merging.html#database-style-dataframe-or-named-series-joining-merging comparison to sql https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/getting_started/comparison/comparison_with_sql.html#compare-with-sql-join youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txMdrV1Ut64&list=PL-osiE80TeTsWmV9i9c58mdDCSskIFdDS&index=8 FUNCTIONS opening and preview import pandas as pd imports pandas with alias pd, as per convention read_csv imports data from csv or tsv file filepath, seperator character df.head() returns the first n rows, previewer n rows to be returned set_index rename columns df.col.describe() summary stats pd.set_option pandas settings eg max rows to show you can use list comprehensions to mass rename header rows df[new col nam]=new column from existing columns create new column from existing columns main pd.DataFrame() create df from scratch selection . or [] notat...

20/08/2020 - learning ML

  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/08/start-learning-data-science-again.html so i will be trying this out. almost done with the pandas micro course btw BTS's dynamite is coming out tomorrow and its in my favoured genre, so i can't wait for it to be out! troye sivan's in a dream is also due

14/08/2020 - google machine learning crash course

  https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ml-intro google machine learning crash course more developer oriented note it is tensor flow based since tensorflow is a google product

13/08/2020 - nric, lazada

singpost collect ica never book timeslot, lucky no need come back i got my renewed NRIC today (mandated for 30 yos). the photo sucks. low quality and small. looked like those obituary notices. and i looked cross eyed. wth. i chose to collect the the post office, and when i got there the counter staff told me i had to make an timeslot appointment so i showed them the screenshot from ICA's collection e-service and explained from what i interpreted the instructions from ICA's side only gave me a date period to collect and didn't request me to book a timeslot. (screenshot told me to collect from 12-25th, so not my fault, yeah). anyway no harm was done (thanks to my habit of keeping receipts), i didn't make a wasted trip and collected my card. it was morning and the queue was sparse, so no point pushing me, yeah. ica notifies you by letter to renew => website eservice submit the information and photo for nric=> email from ica that nric is ready to collect => apply e...