[cc lang="python"]
def readraw(filename, shape, intype=’int16′, byteSwap=False):
“”" readraw – To read in a raw file and reformat it to the right shape “”"

# Read in the file
if filename.endswith(‘gz’):
fp = gzip.open(filename, ‘rb’)
else:
fp = open(filename, ‘rb’)

d = fromfile(file=fp, dtype=intype).reshape(shape)

d.byteswap(byteSwap)

return d
[/cc]

[cc lang="matlab"]
function [d] = readraw(filename, type, ds, endian)

if( nargin == 3 )
endian = ‘b’;
end

fp=fopen(filename, ‘rb’, endian);
d = fread(fp, prod(ds), type);
fclose(fp);

d = reshape(d, ds);
[/cc]

There isn’t much magic here, just a simple idea that I use almost daily.

Anyway, I was looking around for some curve fitting and interpolation code on the Net and found Michael Flannigan’s website which has a great resource of math, stats, optimization and some other  more subtle items.  His Java code is here.

I can’t even do it justice by showing the list of packages as it is about twice as long as the screen capture shown to the right.

[cc lang="php"]
function display($table)
{
$db_host = ‘localhost’;
$db_user = ‘‘;
$db_pwd = ‘ ‘;
 
$database = ‘‘;
 
if (!mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd))
die(“Can’t connect to database”);
 
if (!mysql_select_db($database)) || die(“Can’t select database”);
 
// sending query
$result = mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM {$table}”);
if (!$result) {
die(“Query to show fields from table failed”);
}
 
$fields_num = mysql_num_fields($result);
 
echo “

;Table: {$table}

“;
echo “
“;
// printing table headers
for($i=0; $i<$fields_num; $i++)
{
$field = mysql_fetch_field($result);
echo "

“;
}
echo “

\n”;
// printing table rows
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo “

“;
 
// $row is array… foreach( .. ) puts every element
// of $row to $cell variable
foreach($row as $cell)
echo “

“;
 
echo “

\n”;
}
echo “

{$field->name}

$cell

“;
mysql_free_result($result);
}
[/cc]

So, sitting at a conference in Hawaii (tough life, I know) I had some ideas that I wanted to try out and quickly figured out that I could not get to the site license hosts back at my university.  Argh.  So, I started looking around to see if there were other options which would provide me a similar feel and processing capabilities.  There were a few options, but the one that stuck out was to use Python, Scipy and Numpy.  They were almost tailor made for what I wanted.

So, over the last little while I have been using the Python, Scipy, Numpy triad for most of my research and am feeling like I want to shift over completely the triad rather than using Matlab.

Computer c2 – connect to this computer

1. Connect to c1
2. type: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048
* default directory for keyfiles will be ~/.ssh/
* if you do not want to be prompted, leave passphrase blank
3. copy the contents of .ssh/id_rsa.pub (there should only be one line)
4. place this line on c2, in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

python ‘/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py’ -o …

$ gpg --detach-sign -u <email address> --armor <file>

To verify a file:

$ gpg --verify <file>.asc