Archive for September, 2011

28 Sep

Cython example of exposing C-computed arrays in Python without data copies

Colleagues who are exposing a numerical C code in Python asked me for some advice on the best way to pass arrays from C to Python avoiding copies. They had Cython in mind, and I must agree with them that I have found the Cython code to be more maintainable than hand-written Python C-API code.

When [...]

11 Sep

Python at scientific conferences

Top notch scientific conferences are starting to add Python tracks to their program. This is good news. Indeed, it scientific Python conferences (namely Scipy, EuroSciPy and Scipy India) are doing great to get together people who have already heard about Python for science, but we need to reach out to specific Python communities to maximize [...]

05 Sep

Conference posters

At the request of a friend, I am putting up some of the posters that I recently presented at conferences.

Large-scale functional-connectivity graphical models for individual subjects using population prior.
This is a poster for our NIPS work

Multi-subject dictionary learning to segment an atlas of brain spontaneous activity.
This is a poster for our IPMI work

Mayavi for 3D [...]

03 Sep

Hiring a junior developer on the scikit-learn

Once again, we are looking for a junior developer to work on the scikit-learn. Below is the official job posting. As a personal remark, I would like to stress that this is a unique opportunity to be payed for two years to work on learning and improving the scientific Python toolstack.

Job Description

INRIA is looking to [...]

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