Installing Postgres+PostGIS has never been easier on Mac. In fact, it is now an app! You download the app-file from postgresapp.com, place it in your Applications folder, and you’re done. Really. If you think that was over too fast If…
The command wget is useful, but unfortunately doesn’t come preinstalled with Mac. Yeah, you can install it of course, but if you’re doing it from source, the process has a few steps to satisfy all the dependencies; start by configure…
In bash, you simply prefix a command with one or more XXX=”YYY” pairs, e.g. $ A=”B” X=”Y” python print_env.py … A=B X=Y The code for print_env.py: import os for ev in os.environ: print “{0}={1}”.format(ev, os.environ[ev])
In the following Google video, Noam Chomsky raises and answers the interesting question: what amazing insights into language have linguistics revealed, which the public does not know about?. He answers that human natural language was propably developed to support the…
This post is influenced by a talk I had with Marcos Vaz Salles and a debate that happened between Foucault and Chomsky in 1970. The relationship between humans and societies is a recursive relationship. Human beings influence societies and societies…
Chomsky has written and said many things, namely on the topic of linguistics and politics. In an attempt to get an overview of it all, I searched for the term “overview of chomsky’s work” and found post on znet called…
This is a mini-workshop that shows you how to work with Spark on Amazon Elastic Map-Reduce; It’s a kind of hello world of Spark on EMR. We will solve a simple problem, namely use Spark and Amazon EMR to count…
The message of this movie is “do what you want”. The video is a meditative portrait of a man who was once a successful medical doctor, and who as 60+ lives in a small studio in Los Angeles (i think).…
Today I read the What Goes Around Comes Around chapter from the “Red Book” by Michael Stonebraker and Joseph M. Hellerstein. The chapter (or paper if you will) is a summary of 35 years of data model proposals, grouped into…
Get the current weather for Copenhagen: import urllib2 import json # hent vejret for Koebenhavn url = ‘,dk’ response = urllib2.urlopen(url) # parse JSON resultatet data = json.load(response) print ‘Weather in Copenhagen:’, data[‘weather’][0][‘description’]