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After several years away, this blog is back online with an updated Hugo theme. More articles coming soon.

This is the final part to my notes and reflections on the book, Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb. Part one covered such things as skin in the game, the principle-agent problem, fragility of optimisation and convexity effects, and the power of options over deterministic thinking.

I think my work colleagues and friends are now bored of me raving about the book Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. My reading style is to read very slowly, mulling over each sentence again and again. When a book is this dense I also tend to make notes. Here they are below, from the point of view of a consultant and a numerical modeller. Some examples are taken straight out of the book whilst others are ones I have personally encountered that illustrate concepts the book raises.

In this third part of the series of posts on extracting objects from a CAD document, I’ll discuss how you might develop this CAD extraction tool further and the problems you might be able to solve.

Recently my company has switched code repositories, from Gitlab to GitHub. I already have a personal GitHub account so I find myself in a position where I have two GitHub accounts. I authenticate using ssh keys, but GitHub does not authenticate two separate accounts using the same keys. Despite generating a new ssh key for my new corporate account I found myself unable to access my organisations repositories.

In this second part of the series of posts on extracting objects from a CAD document, I’ll go through the process of using the ezdxf package to implement the extraction strategy discussed in part one.

This is the first part of a series of posts describing my experience of extracting objects from a CAD document.