Gaël Varoquaux

This week end Emmanuelle visited me in Florence. We took the opportunity to visit a bit Tuscany, using the trains.
Pictures on the static site, I cannot generate galleries on the blog from my hard drive.

After Debian, Mayavi2 has just made it into Ubuntu Hardy (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/science/mayavi2). From what I can see, the deps look just good, thanks a lot to Varun for making sure the Debian package was in shape. This means in April, it will be massively easier for a lot of people to install an oldish version of [...]

I defended my PhD yesterday. I am pretty happy to be done with this.

After the defense, the other PhD students offered me a plastic python (well it was a cobra, actually, but they told me to pretend it was a Python.

Thanks to the combined efforts of Ondrej Certik, who made me do the necessary tarballs, and Varun Hiremath, who finalized the packaging efforts, Mayavi2 is now in Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/sid/mayavi2 ). Currently, it is in testing, but it will soon trickle down to unstable. Along with Mayavi2, we have two new Debian packages: Traits, and [...]

Damn, I went to work (Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy) biking today, and I am really muddy by the time I get there! Conclusion: Florence suburbs are way muddier than Paris’s. And the LENS is further from Florence downtown by mud standards than the Institut d’Optique is from Paris (:-P Valentina).
PS: This post is actually supposed [...]

Recently Prabhu and I have been ironing the library aspect of Mayavi2 (library as opposed to application). One of the usecases we are interested in, is interative use, via for instance ipython, a la pylab.
Most people think of Mayavi as a big and powerful application, maybe a bit clunky to script and to get [...]

Thanks to Jarrod, we now have planet.scipy . This means it is time for me to create a blog, on top of my good old static site.