My next trip is an adventure to the Middle East, prompted by a fare drop by Turkish Airlines. San Francisco to Istanbul via Turkish is a new route and fares were quite good relative to historical data (along with other … Continued
A quick snippet to convert any primitive type constant in a Python main module to program arguments. E.g., if I have main.py with FEATURE_SELECTION = True NUMBER_OF_ROWS = 100 def main(): # rest of program and I want to … Continued
I write this in Singapore, city number three in a ten city voyage obtained via brute force enumeration of route permutations for a set of cities I desired to visit in Southeast Asia. I ended up purchasing 11 one-way tickets, … Continued
I think using foo or bar in code snippets is detrimental when visually parsing the code–especially when the syntax is unfamiliar. For example, I was browsing through some php code samples to find this: foreach ($bar as $foo) { // … Continued
MATLAB fills the empty region of rotated images with solid black (i.e. zero padding). This is rather problematic for various computer vision algorithms (e.g. fusion, registration, similarity). Unfortunately, this is not a parameter in the imrotate command. The following addresses … Continued
I’ve been cataloging various shell commands and scripts that have been quite useful for various Linux (and even Windows via cygwin/git-shell) activities. The ones I list here are either not found via Google search or required a bit of hackery to … Continued
Don’t use NTFS compression for many small files. I recently tried to enable NTFS compression on some log files to see how the compression ratio would fare versus batch compressing them all. I experimented with a 64MB folder with ~10k files … Continued
A quick script for sending a batch of emails using a csv file. Each csv line contains an email address and the information I wish to populate in the email content and send to a single recipient. In this case, … Continued
Background Hosting a website on a home server, especially one with low traffic, can result in long response times when retrieving pages. Intuitively, it seems like high traffic should slow the response of a server, and that a server with … Continued
The IEEE Latex format is a nightmare to work with. Nothing new there. One problem I had was using the IEEE template with bibliography that had worked for other conference styles. Now all I get is a cryptic error: Latex: … Continued