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GCP Compute Engine VM Instances

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GCP

GCP c2 and c3 VMs are good choices according to performance per price. It's even cheaper than customized VM types with reduced memories! GCP c2 VMs are compute optimized and are ideal for CPU intensive workloads. Note that GCP c2 spot VMs are even cheaper than AWS t2.nano VMs if you can stand your VM being preempted.

`ifelse` on Pandas Series

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Series.apply + Lambda Function

DataFrame.apply + Lambda Function

axis=1: apply the lambda function on each row

List Comprehension

numpy.where

numpy.where is vectorized ifelse.

Tips on GitHub Actions

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Tips and Traps

  1. You can use sudo without password in Linux and macOS when running GitHub Actions.

  2. GitHub Actions supports manual triggers with workflow_dispatch. Workflow parameters are supported in manually triggers …