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My path to Muse
Starting in the middle My work involves doing research in atmospheric science. At one end, as input, I consider satellite and ground measurements, model outputs, weather indicators. On the other end, I’m supposed to produce scientific articles that use well-chosen … Continue reading
Shapely
For those who just ditched Matlab for another scientific package and miss the inpolygon function, I suggest taking a look at the Shapely package. It’s full of good stuff having to do with polygons and seems interesting for any kind … Continue reading
NVChannel Fifo: Graphics Channel Exception… and Plex
For this first post in a long, long time, why not explain another weird problem I had with the iMac ? Yay, let’s. During the past two weeks or so, the iMac began behaving strangely. The problems were mostly with … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Computer, Mac
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Enthought Python Distribution, now with basemap
A new beta 2 of the Enthought Python Distribution has been released. It includes updates to the latest versions of wxPython (2.8.7.1), VTK (5.2), IPython (0.9.1), matplotlib (0.98.3), ETS (3.0.2) and some other stuff. It looks like NumPy is still … Continue reading
Python in Science proceedings
The proceedings for Scipy2008 (ie the 7th Python in Science conference) are now online. It would be worth mentioning for the State of Scipy article alone, but there’s tons of nifty up-to-date information there, which is hard to get otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Python, Technology
Tagged proceedings, Python, Science
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Python for Science on Mac: Enthought Python Distribution
As a sort-of follow-up to my own post praising SAGE as an all-in-one Python distribution including tons of science goodies, I want to also point out that the Enthought Python Distribution is now available in beta form for Mac OS … Continue reading
Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage
For the past two months or so, I’ve been slowly migrating my scientific workflow (that’s a fancy way of saying “my chaotic data hacking”) from Matlab ((R) (TM) (C)) to Python. The results are overwhelmingly positive, so I’d like to … Continue reading
Posted in Computer, Python, Science, Technology
Tagged code, matlab, Python, SAGE, Science
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Papers + Word 2008 = Bibliography heaven
Papers is a Mac sofware aimed at simplifying the management, searching and reading of scientific litterature. It’s more or less iTunes for your science papers — you can browse through them by authors or journals, include all the relevant information … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Computer, screenshot, Software, Technology
Tagged bibliography, Mac, papers, Software, Word
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Google Talk in iChat behind a firewall
Note : this is an updated and (somewhat) tightened version of this hint at macosxhints for my personal reference. If it helps someone, great. At work my computer is blocked from the outside world by a proxy. Here are the … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Computer, Mac, Technology
Tagged chat, firewall, gmail, Google Talk, ichat, macosx, proxytunnel
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X11 2.1 for Leopard is out
At least as a preview release, in a nice easy-to-install package. You can get it from Jeremy Huddleston account on freedesktop.org: X11-2.1.0.pkg. Here is the (kind of hard-to-read) changelog since the bug-ridden 2.0 release included with Leopard. If you’d prefer to follow what’s going … Continue reading
Posted in Computer, Mac, Technology
Tagged Apple, Leopard, Mac, Software, Technology, update, X11
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