If you're trying to install any flavor of Linux in a Lenovo laptop (in my case Lubuntu in a T430 Thinkpad) and all you get is a black screen, chances are that you have the "Secure Boot" option enabled in the BIOS. Just disable this option and you should ...
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Using a command line parameter to specify the name of a function to call
When running some Python experiments — where typically each experiment corresponds to run a simulation under some particular conditions — I find useful to be able to call a particular function from the command line. For example, if I define the functions exp_1, exp_2, and exp_3, I want to be able to ...
read moreBinomial Coefficients in NumPy/SciPy
For some reason finding how to compute the binomial coefficients using Numpy/SciPy is harder than it should (I couldn't find the answer in the first page of a google search).
The answer, though, is quite easy: just use scipy.special.binom. For example:
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Using NumPy masked arrays
In NumPy, masked arrays are quite handy. Say you want to find the index of the smallest positive entry of an array. Doing a[a>0].argmin() doesn't work, because you're removing all the non-positive numbers from a, so you're computing argmin over the wrong array.
Masked ...
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On the Toponymy of the Coast of California
San Diego, Santa Catalina, San Pedro, where all these names come from? I learned about it reading “The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex” by Murray Gell-Man. In 1602 Sebastian Vizcaino was given the mandate to map the coast of California. For each new place ...
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