Alex Viana - 05/05/17
The following is a presentation I gave to some non-techincal collegues at work to help them get started on reading and writing regex expressions. Sharing in case others find it useful as well.
Regular Expressions (Regexs) are ...
I organize a weekly series of tech talks at work. It's a good way to stay up on what technologies people are using in and out of the office. Recently, I've started presenting at these talks on various computer science fundamentals I was never exposed to in college ...
This post is intended to accompany a presentation I gave to the Baltimore Python Meetup on Wednesday, March 15th 2017.
This post assumes some familiarity with object-oriented programming as it relates to classes and inheritance in Python.
The purpose of this post is to explore Python's special methods, also ...
This is a short post about how I set up my pelican project to deploy with GitHub pages. Specifically, I want to version control both the output static pages that are being served as well as the source Markdown files used to generate the output. What I ended up isn ...
Lately I've been doing a lot (millions) of calculations involving small NumPy arrays of HST PSFs. Naturally, I wanted to save the output of these calculations to for later analysis. I put all the results in a MySQL database so I could easily select subsets of the data for ...
Update 01/30/2014: Adam has split his gaussfitter code off into it's own GitHub repository here ("PR's Welcome!"). This removes some dependencies and changes the import statement but as of right now everything else is the same. I've maintained the old links to the original agpy ...
Lately at work I've been thinking a lot about the performance of my code. In the past most of my work fell into one of two performance categories: (roughly) overnight or (roughly) right now. In either case I didn't really care ...
The Moving Target Pipeline group at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland seeks a graduate or undergraduate student for a paid summer internship through the Institute's Space Astronomy Summer Program (SASP). The intern will work with our group to develop, test, and run our software pipeline ...
Earlier this month the wonderful Randall Munroe at XKCD posted this great strip poking fun at the decrease in commit message quality as a project ages.
As the meme goes, "nailed it".
(I did finally get everything to work BTW.)