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Mining for tweets   This post explains generally how my Python 3 tweet searching script works. Twitter limits the maximum age of searchable tweets to roughly a week. As such, the script can se… (more…)

Cryptocurrencies are becoming mainstream so I’ve decided to spend the weekend learning about it. I’ve hacked together the code to download daily Bitcoin prices and apply a simple trading strategy to it. (more…)