Francis T. O'Donovan

Data Science Manager at Hospital IQ – Planet discoverer, researcher, developer, geek.

Entropy Explained, With Sheep

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All Physics students learn the Second Law of Thermodynamics, that entropy always increases. But not all such students understand why this is. To do this, let’s try counting sheep…!

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(TIL) Mac: Ask user for password via GUI

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This function will use AppleScript to present a password entry dialog to make your scripts a little more user friendly:

(TIL) Mac: Date and Time

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List Available Timezones:

(TIL) Mac: Restart or shutdown

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You can restart or shutdown from the command line:

(TIL) Nix: Stty - sane terminal settings

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Restore sane shell settings, in case your shell session went insane because some script or application turned it into a garbled mess:

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