Geographically weighted regression reading list
Slides GWR_Presentation.pdf Articles MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-006.pdf mennis_cj06.pdf
Readings in distributed systems
Below are four different (partially overlapping) lists of papers one should read in distributed systems. Dan Creswell: A Distributed Systems Reading List Swami Sivasubramanian: Building scalable systems Dr. Manish Parashar: Parallel and Distributed Computing Bytepawn: Readings in distributed systems (currently…
Examples of querying a OSM PostgreSQL table with the hstore tags column
I have found some tutorials (1 and 2) for using the hstore column type in PostgreSQL. This blog post is specific to querying OpenStreetMap data using the tags column in relations ways and nodes (the tags column is a hstore).
Import OSM data into PostGIS using Osmosis
This blog post is made as a “note-to-self” so that I can remember the procedure. You are of course welcome to read along. It’s does nothing fancy, simply imports the planet.osm file into PostGIS using Osmosis with the Snapshot Schema.…
How to read computer science papers
Situation: You have a large pile of computer science papers in front of you. You want to read them all. What to do? My suggestion is that you read the two guides below. They are really short and helpful. I’m…
Cross platform benchmarking tools
VM benchmarking General benchmarking tools phoronix is a testing and benchmarking platform.
Python: inverse of zip
So you have a list of tuples, created with the zip built-in function in Python. Like this: z = [(1, ‘a’), (2, ‘b’), (3, ‘c’)] And you want to reverse zip, to get these two lists: x = [1, 2,…
How to convert numpy matrix with different floats to matrix with zeros and ones
Given a numpy matrix (mixed_float_matrix) with a variety of float values, how do you convert it into a matrix, with zeros and ones (ones in place of non-zero values in the original matrix)?
How to split a file in two on even/odd line numbers
I have a (CSV) file that I want to split in two. I want all the even lines to go to one file, and all the odd lines to go to another file. $ ls -1 FILE [MAGIC] $ ls…
Back on my regimen
Sometimes my head hurts from all the papers I have to read. All the lines of software I have to code. All the pages of high quality scientific output I have to write. All the people I have to impress.…