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+### CONVENIENCE FUNCTIONS THAT DON'T DIRECTLY DEAL WITH PLOTTING OR BOOTSTRAP COMPUTATIONS%0A### ARE PLACED HERE. 27 July 2017%0A%0Adef merge_two_dicts(x, y):%0A    %22%22%22Given two dicts, merge them into a new dict as a shallow copy.%0A    Taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38987/how-to-merge-two-python-dictionaries-in-a-single-expression%22%22%22%0A    z = x.copy()%0A    z.update(y)%0A    return z

add misc_tools.py