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SciPy 2012 Postview: The following is a section taken from my SciPy 2012 proceeding from the conference last week. You can see the paper at github. This post is a follow up to the “Why Reproducibility is Important” post. I hope to do a ...
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SciPy 2012 Preview: The following is a section taken from my SciPy 2012 proceeding for the conference next week. You can see a preview of the paper at github. I hope to see you at the conference (and my talk)!
True to its part ...
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On episode 28, we finally get around to tackling R, a language for statistical computing. R has a storied history as an LGPL code related to the S language which came out of Bell labs which itself was influenced by ...
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Hello scientists! Sorry it has been a while since we posted. We promise that there are episodes in the pipeline, coming soon to an eardrum near you!
In the meantime, if you have ever programmed in C/C++ you are well aware of the ...
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To appease the PI, our hero - the dashing, young scientist - faces down the following problem with moxie normally reserved for Marie Curie.
In 2D or 3D, we have two points (p1 and p2) which define a line ...
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For episode 26, a group of Hacker Within alums visited PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. We discuss some of the very exciting developments in the world of scientific computing in Python, including such projects as Pandas, NumPy, PyTables and ...
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Figure 1: Rough placement of software licenses as a function of free & open source.
A couple of weeks ago Milad (animal) and I engaged in a lively discussion at the NIF User Group Meeting banquet on the nature of free & open source. Specifically in ...