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
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
After playing with the MATLAB Parallel Computing Toolbox (r2009a x64), I noticed what appears to be significant overhead when writing to an array in parallel, increasing the speed of a parallel for loop by over an order of magnitude. This … Continued