Wisdom and Wonder

The Best Article on Python Decorators

Grant — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:36:46 +0000

Here it is.

Spring 2012 Midterm Poster

Grant — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:02:41 +0000

Here is my poster as of midterm for the MSCS and Sigma Xi poster sessions.

Finding Python’s package directories

Grant — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:43:15 +0000

Finding Python’s package directories:

python -c 'import sys, pprint; pprint.pprint(sys.path)'

(via djangobook)

Spring 2012 Midterm Endometriosis Resources

Grant — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:56:03 +0000

Rather than listing them all, it will suffice to say that pubmed and MUs subscription to many journals along with the library and books I’ve purchased have been very helpful. BTW, my research shelf is always this clean ;).

Sayre’s law

Grant — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:40:20 +0000

Sayre’s law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: “In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.”

(via wikipedia)

Schampa Warmskin and Coolskin Balaclavas

Grant — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:06:03 +0000

Last Fall I bought a Schampa Warm and Coolskin. They both fit under my helmet comfortably and kept me just warm enough. Even down to 34F, riding just felt great.

Pinlock anti-fog visor

Grant — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:00:22 +0000

Last year I bought one of these for the RF1100. It is really a brilliant piece of hardware; it “just works”.

For eyeglass wearing folks… remember that if those fog up then the Pinlock won’t offer you much help :).

Using Firebug to Evaluate XPath Queries in Firebug

Grant — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:07:49 +0000

Start the Firebug console and use the ‘$x’ function. It takes one argument, the xpath query in single quotes.

(via browsermob)

Publishing MATLAB Code

Grant — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:01:42 +0000

This link explains how you can annotate MATLAB code with markup to help communicate your ideas and result to others.

For some tasks I already know that it will beat the LaTeX or copy and paste into Word lifecycle.

MATLAB’s Rich Java Interoperation

Grant — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:44:18 +0000

Last night I wanted to figure out how to get rid of the “Start Menu” on the bottom of the IDE and found a solution here. That got me digging into the docs about Java integration. Wow; it just works and seems to work really well. The interop is seamless. For the little coding I did to play around with loading files (it is built in but I was still curious to know) it was really easy to use. Awesome.