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Latex, Beamer, Python, Beauty
This post quickly shows how to create pretty latex beamer slides, that don’t look anything much like maths seminar slides, and that can include well formatted (Python) code, as well as the normal...
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The Pirate Bay Trial
So Stina wrote a piece for the independent about the Pirate Bay Trials which reminded me: I’m really upset about the implications of this attack one of the main hubs of the new social order! Just in...
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Pebl
Look! A python module for learning bayesian network structures has surfaced on the JMLR software track – bits of the author’s blog are quite interesting too… This is article number 5 for the software...
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MICROCOSMOGRAPHIA ACADEMICA
I came across the Microcosmographia Academia in one of Niranjan‘s slides (which are an interesting view into the world of academic politics and bureaucracy) and then found it in full at the webpage of...
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Nasty Python Things
So I seem to keep writing commands that look like this: delta[t][q] = max( [delta[tau][j] + pylab.log( pylab.array([ output_dist(Q=q,L=(t-tau),Y=Y[tau+1:t]), duration_dist(Q=q,L=(t-tau)),...
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Python and Numpy integers
I keep getting bitten on the bum with Python and ‘proper’ programming things. Today it’s this: In [253]: 8**14 Out[253]: 4398046511104L In [254]: 8**(numpy.int32(14)) Out[254]: 0 I would feel guilty...
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More Segment HMMs
It’s weird how you can muck about with structures for so long and still forget what the hell you’re doing all the time. This post is supposed to try and clarify segment HMMs a bit for me, so that I can...
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Profiling in R
Giving a quick talk about vectorising code in R next month. Need to learn about profiling in R. This is what I have discovered in the last hour or so (when I should have been working): Rprof() This is...
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finding homologous probes using biomaRt
I asked a question on the superb biostar stackexchange site. It’s here: http://biostar.stackexchange.com/questions/1054/homology-bioconductor It’s about finding geneome-wide homologies using...
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-> Going both ways in R
Andy, in response to my griping on #Rstats, asks “What’s wrong with an arrow going both ways!?!?!” In R one can perfom assignment three ways: a = 2 a <- 2 2 -> a I’m pretty sure all these things...
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