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Data visualization in Python? Here is a great cheat sheet that hopefully can be useful

Posted on 2021/05/10 by Carl Robitaille

Data visualization in Python? Here is a great cheat sheet that hopefully can be useful. Please share🙌 #AcademicTwitter #phdchat #Bioinformatics

(An accessible PDF version can be downloaded here: https://t.co/geRsWtyFCM) pic.twitter.com/0lZ8Cb1yJ5
— OpenAcademics (@OpenAcademics) May 9, 2021

Did you know? You can execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen on Linux: watch command

Posted on 2021/05/10 by Carl Robitaille

Did you know? You can execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen on Linux:
watch command

For instance, display CPU fan, temperature and other sensors data from the CLI in real-time using sensors command https://t.co/SMyRZWmGj2:
watch -d -n 1 sensors pic.twitter.com/6IDUtFcr3G
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) May 3, 2021

Is Simulating Wet Papers Possible?

Posted on 2021/05/10 by Carl Robitaille

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

The 'Code-Breaking' series from TRM intern Georgie Bumpus concludes with 'Elliptic Curve Cryptography'. Used in iMessage, Google Chrome, @Bitcoin, and by the US government to secure your data online. Find out how it all works here: https://t.co/BB0J2mZVDX
— Dr Tom Crawford (@tomrocksmaths) April 20, 2021

Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before

Show the binary representations of the ASCII letters

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

printf 'ibase=10;obase=2;%dn' "'"{J,o,a,n,n,e} | bc # Show the binary representations of the ASCII letters making up the name 'Joanne'.
— Command Line Magic (@climagic) April 16, 2021

How NFTs Explain Everything Wrong with Art

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

The Heat Method for Distance Computation

Posted on 2021/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Just added some new python bindings for fast computation of geodesic paths! Input is two vertices, output is a geodesic polyline on the surface.

This uses the new edge flip geodesic algorithm from our siggraph asia paper (w/ @keenanisalive).

docs: https://t.co/TkBwCEdCbS pic.twitter.com/fa6IODSLMy
— Nick Sharp (@nmwsharp) April 9, 2021

A photo retoucher, Matt Loughrey, altered archival photos of people about to be tortured & killed by the Khmer Rouge, colorizing them like glamour shots & adding super-fun smiles

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Carl Robitaille

ICYMI, a photo retoucher, Matt Loughrey, altered archival photos of people about to be tortured & killed by the Khmer Rouge, colorizing them like glamour shots & adding super-fun smiles. There was a very ad-like article about it until people complained & Vice took it down. https://t.co/X3pW2wh1ku
— James Beacham (@jbbeacham) April 11, 2021

Making a log carving robot

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Carl Robitaille