Update, 2023-04-05: By popular demand, I updated the below solution to include a second function which stores the screenshots in a subfolder. The Final Result Let me start this article by showing you my usage of the functionality described. I work as a Data Scientist and use org-mode in Emacs for a large number of every day tasks. One of them is the documentation of new findings within datasets or other software's documentation or websites etc.

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Eager to Play TicTacToe? The package neckar contains a fully functional reinformcement learning model to train yourself and play against in the game TicTacToe. Here’s how you can simply download and install the result if you have a gitlab account (and can set up a personal access token…): pip install neckar --extra-index-url https://__token__:personalaccesstoken@gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/37714906/packages/pypi/simple … and if you don’t: Download the wheel from this link, cd to the wheel and run

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TL;DR This post explains how to set up emacs so that the writing and sending of letters is always just a whim away. The resulting letters will adhere to the German DIN 5008 standard, and fit neatly into envelopes designed on that standard, as shown in the cover image on the top. Prerequisites All you for the implementation shown in this tutorial is Emacs with org-mode and a LaTeX installation with the dinbrief.

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Einleitung und Fragestellung In den letzten Jahren1 konnten in diversen Ländern der Aufstieg populistischer Phänomene beobachtet werden: der Aufstieg der AfD in Deutschland, die seit ihrer Gründung binnen 5 Jahren in sämtlichen deutschen Landtagen, dem Bundestag und dem europäischen Parlament vertreten ist; der Wahlsieg Donald J. Trumps in den USA; der Aufstieg der Lega in Italien und viele weitere Beispiele. Ein Verlaufsmuster, das bei jedem einzelnen dieser Aufstiege in der Öffentlichkeit auftritt ist das folgende Ping-Pong-Spiel zwischen Medien und Umfragewerten: Je größer die gesellschaftliche Bekanntheit, desto größer das Medienecho, desto größer die Bekanntheit, etc.

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The Final Result Let me start this article by showing you the final result of this article. Below you see a screengrab of me checking the new mails I received today, from across 3 separate mail accounts (including a gmail account) deleting two mails on the fly, while skimming the remaining two searching through all my mails for the keywords "thalia AND FIFA" and finding the result immediately

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