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Microsoft has gone to great lengths to get users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10- by hook or by crook. While Microsoft has published very little technical information about their systems for encouraging and pushing Windows 10 upgrades to users of earlier operating systems, some of the published information that does exist is actually wrong or incomplete...

I put together a video that explains some of the well-known Windows settings related to Windows 10 upgrades. It also demonstrates how some of the background tasks that Microsoft installs along with its Windows 10 program files actively reset system settings that you might have changed.

You can view the video here, and the full transcript appears below.
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An interactive online tool to draw Voronoi diagram on a google map
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If you want to interact with external programs from your Python applications, Sarge is a library which is intended to make your life easier than using the subprocess module in Python’s standard library.
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Makes you find what you want in awesome lists more quickly.

Access and search every awesome repo collected in sindresorhus/awesome in one page without pain.
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In this notebook, we cover the basics of probability theory, and show how to implement the theory in Python. (You should have a little background in probability and Python.) Then we show how to solve some particularly perplexing paradoxical probability problems.
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NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities, all of them developed by Nir Sofer.
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The interactive documentary Jheronimus Bosch, the Garden of Earthly Delights provides an in-depth tour though The Garden of Earthly Delights. In a web interface the visitor will be taken on an audio-visual journey, including sound, music, video and images to enrich the storytelling.
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This tip is really great:

"You’re going to find this hard to believe, but that built-in Windows app that will split-print an image for you is none other than Microsoft’s much-maligned Paint application!!"


   1. Open the image you’d like to print in Paint
   2. Select: Print -> Page Setup (Vista and 7), or File -> Page Setup (in XP)
   3. Under Scaling, select Fit to and change the setting to something like “2 by 2 page(s)”
   4. Click OK
   5. Print the image from Paint, and make sure to select “All Pages”
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The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture
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Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility.
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via sebsauvage

Le système tourne dans une machine virtuelle et évalue le comportement de l'exécutable, regarde les accès réseau, analyse d'eventuelles entropies trop élevée dans certaines parties du fichier (démontrant la présence d'un chiffrement ou d'une compression), etc.
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Step Chart Approach 1: XY Chart with Error Bars

One way to get horizontal and vertical lines from data points is with error bars. You don't need to add points to get the additional segments. However, you do need to add formulas to compute custom error bar values, and you need to assign error bars to the series. Because horizontal (X) error bars are needed, the chart must be an XY chart with its inferior date scale axis, not a Line chart.

Step Chart Approach 2: Line Chart with Repeated Ranges

Until recently I considered only two techniques for building step charts: the XY plus error bars approach described above, and manually (i.e., tediously) inserting extra data into the worksheet to allow for one point per corner. But in February 2006, Michel Gerday of Belgium described the following technique in the Microsoft Excel Charting newsgroup, and his technique automatically adds the extra data to a line chart.
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An interactive guide to alternative voting systems.
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Overview of 5 options when it comes to statistical data visualisation in Python:

- matplotlib
- pandas
- seaborn
- ggplot
- altair
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Verz handy online version of BabelMap.
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