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Generating YYYYMM Formatted Dates Using Python

import monthdelta as md
import datetime as dt
import math as math

def quarter(month):
    return int(math.ceil(month/3.0))
#end def

d0 = md.date.today()
dates = [d0 + md.monthdelta(i) for i in range(1, 20)]
yyyymms = [d.year*100 + d.month for d in dates]
yymms …

Don't Do Statistics If You Don't Really Undestand It

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

As a statistician I'm very glad to see that statistics is being widely used in many areas. However, time after time I found that it is really dangerous for people who don't really understand statistics to use it. As we all know that there are …

Common Mistakes in C++ Code and Ways to Debug

Debugging

  1. gdb is a excellent command tool for debugging C/C++ code.

Syntax Mistakes

  1. Missing "}". When this happens, you usually get lots of error message when you compile your code. And these error messages are often hard to understand and seems not related to your code.

  2. Missing template arguments. This …