To be able to visualize some quantities attached to countries all over the world, I needed a image with various countries color-coded. The fantastic matplotlib basemap package was not an option as I really needed a static image.
So I generated an SVG image with all the countries. It was generating by tracing a bitmap, so [...]
We’re famous: the work that concluded my PhD is now picked up by the press http://www.physorg.com/news179481148.html
I hadn’t realized before reading this journalist’s version of the story, but we have all the proper buzz words:
general relativity
quantum physics
freely-falling planes
Bayesian statistics.
This kind of stuff makes great headlines, but the way we are judged on this “success” is [...]
Hurray! The pivot article that marks my transition from physics to statistic modeling is finally out:
How to estimate the differential acceleration in a two-species atom interferometer to test the equivalence principle
G Varoquaux, R A Nyman, R Geiger, P Cheinet, A Landragin and P Bouyer
To put things in context, at the end of my PhD, we [...]
May 30th and 31st the French Python conference, Pycon FR, will be held at ‘la citée des sciences’, la Villette, in Paris.
The first day, I will be giving a one-hour-long tutorial (in French) on numpy, scipy, and all the Python for Science jazz. On the following day, I will be giving a half-hour-long talk to [...]
I couldn’t help myself, this Franck-Willison quote is brilliant:
“And the Europeans accept chaos and know how to live with it. I came away from France believing in the strong faith of the French people, not because of their magnificent cathedrals, but because I saw them drive around L’Arc du Triomphe. As they careened around this [...]
The French LinuxMag just published a special edition on Python, in which I authored a 12-page article on scientific computing. The edition is in French, so if you don’t speak French, it is of limited interested.
Ce dossier hors-série est une excellente ressource pour découvrir Python, entre autre par ce qu’il présente Python sous beaucoup d’aspects [...]
We used to park our car in a calm neighborhood a few blocks away from our place, as there where always empty spots.
In January of this year, our car was picked up by the police because we had left it parked for more than a week (actually more than two). I was amazed to find [...]
This summer has been hectic (life is hectic anyhow!). As I was switching fields from physics to neuro-imaging, I took the chance to travel to the US and to spend the summer doing Python-related stuff.
Austin - Enthought
I spent most of my time this summer at Enthought, in Austin, Texas. Actually it was the Enthought guys [...]
Hell, I had a crazy summer of hacking (it not quite over yet, and I really need to blog about it). I am starting too feel a bit tired, but apparently my laptop feels even more so.
My DELL laptop has decided it would die on me: it no longer charges. The good news is that [...]
Yes, the topic of this post is a bit unlike what I usually talk about. But, hey, a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.
Turbogears hack
So, suppose you have a dynamic website using turbogears, and you want to publish part of the content of this dynamic site to a static website, for [...]
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