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 ...
"If you don't know what a metaclass is you don't need to use one."
- David Beazley
I was shooting some messages back and forth this morning with some current and former coworkers on Twitter on the topic of Python Metaclasses. One coworker said metaclasses was something he'd ...
I've started a new project working with 10 million stellar PSFs. In my first few steps in the project I performed some model fitting and made a pretty visualization of the individual data points.
I am starting a new project that I'm ...