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A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part III
In the final part of this three-part series, I’ll give technical step-by-step instructions for how to wire up our Twitter bot, @BotfonsNeedles, to Docker and deploy it on the free tier of AWS Lambda, so that it can run until…
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A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part II
This is the second part of a three part series about making the Twitter bot @BotfonsNeedles. Click here for Part I. In this part, I’ll explain how to use the Twitter API to post the images to Twitter via the…
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A π-estimating Twitter bot: Part I
This is the first part of a three part series about making the Twitter bot @BotfonsNeedles. In this part, I will write a Python 3 program that uses a Monte Carlo method to approximate \(\pi\) with Buffon’s needle problem, and…