written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-13 | tags: conferences scipy python
Conferences are made up of people, just like any other group of human beings grouping together.
What makes one differ from another really boils down to the people.
I read a tweet recently that described the SciPy 2015 conference as... (read more)
(116 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-13 | tags: scipy conferences python
The conference is over! I get to go home now, but I also will miss being a part of the community. Hope to go back next year!
written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-08 | tags: scipy conferences python
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arrays.written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-07 | tags: scipy conferences python
The final tutorial that I sat in today was the intermediate computational statistics tutorial. This was led by Chris Fonnesbeck, prof at Vanderbilt University, fellow Vancouverite, also one of the maintainers of the PyMC3 package.
written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-07 | tags: scipy conferences python
This morning, I attended the Geospatial Data tutorial. It wasn’t a filled lecture hall, but that was likely because the topic is a bit more specialized. That said, I think it was a tutorial with great content. Part of my own research work may... (read more)
(400 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-06 | tags: scipy conferences python
I sat in the Bokeh/Blaze tutorial this afternoon. It was a challenging tutorial, but a good one nonetheless. I could tell that our tutorial leader, Christine, put in quite a bit of effort in preparing the... (read more)
(737 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-07-06 | tags: scipy conferences python
This morning, I sat in the Cython tutorial by Kurt Smith, of Enthought, at SciPy 2015. We’re only halfway in at the time of starting the writing, but it has been a really useful tutorial!
Kurt... (read more)
(352 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-06-27
Observation:
Example: Academic performance.
written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-06-24
On Monday, I gave my first ever lighting talk at the Boston Python meetup. Though I was kinda nervous right before the talk, overall, I found it to be really fun! My main message was that we should write tests for our data when doing data... (read more)
(360 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2015-06-04
Yesterday, I decided to go for a 5K run on my own. This was a break from my usual routine (which is a routine, now that I’ve finished it at 4 regular intervals) - I solo’d it, rather than running with my running buddy Lin (I didn’t ask him ahead of... (read more)
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