Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Zsh and bash pitfalls
zsh is sometime touted as a drop-in replacement for bash. But it is not. When running our same scenario pipeline code on our cluster and on my macbook, I painfully discovered that while this work on bash, it will return an error “= not found” on zsh if [ $RESUME_DISCARD_SEEDING == “true” ]; then and…
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Use a seaborn color palette for plotly figures
If you choose carefully a seaborn color palette, such as: and you want to use it in a plotly figure, it’s not as straightforward as it should. You need first to scale it and convert it first: So you can have consistent colours scheme across all of your figures ✨
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How to save you institutional mailbox and calendars
How I did it: 37C20BE2-E02F-48F5-91BA-2275086E138E is lmtre.fr 315CFCFE-F902-499E-BD53-259AC0F21BB6 is gmail.com 17199DDE-A3A1-40C7-8FBB-662F004532AF is EPFL.ch C6245073-FCAB-4DA4-A21C-A54693C7E882 is iCloud CBB567A4-CD0F-4ED5-A5A0-6DAE30511627 is Unive.it E42160D9-B9F7-4677-B659-46CA4CAF9158 is unc.edu Academics moves often, and for example I was affiliated with 3 different institutions in 2021. After some time, it’s unusual I’m writing this up because it took me one full day and it…
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Disappointing ODE integration
Any general linear method that is unconditionally positivity preserving for all positive ODEs must have order ≤ 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06268.pdf This is unfortunate. Order 1 is not accurate enough to solve a typical infectious disease dynamics problem at a scale where the outputs are relevant. That’s why many ODE integration schemes in our fields have added…
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Choosing the next lens
Key features of a photography lens, aside for quality, are it’s focal length and its aperture. The focal length, express in mm is the zoom or field of view of a lease. There exist zoom lenses with variable focal (e.g 24-70mm) and fixed focal, prime lenses (e.g 35mm). The aperture controls how much light reaches…
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Things that should not exist on a Mac
After years on many linux distributions (eventually settling on ArchLinux on a 2010 MacBook Air for the best part of my life), I decided to switch to Mac OS. I work on a MacBook Pro 16 on Mac OS. It’s ok, despite very bad handling of control. I don’t mind the Touch Bar as It’s…
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First post
Hopefully I’ll write something here.
Got any book recommendations?