Saturday, January 4, 2020

100 Days of Github. Take 2 Spillover, Day 48

Day 48

Given a weighted network, I want to extract a list of edges with weight wi, wj, etc.
There may be a shorter code to do this. If I find one/figure it out, I'll put it up.
Look here for the jupyter notebook.

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Education

These musings should be revisited and revised, regularly.

2019-Dec-26, Thursday
How important are schools/colleges/universities/institutes of higher learning in imparting education?
But first, what is an education? What is learning?
Is it possible to practically disentangle teachers from institutions of education (examples above)?

Monday, December 23, 2019

100 Days of Github. Take 2. Update.

You might have noticed that I did not put  the "day left" etc metrics at the end of my last post. It's because I am exhausted. This 100 days of github challenge has been tough. And it is clear I will not be able to finish it. 54 posts in 10 days? No, not happening. As usual, I bit off more than I could chew.

I forgot that my work and just plain ol' life might get in the way of github-ing. Also, my incessant need to "if not perfect, then nothing" attitude didn't help, although I admit this exercise helped me get out of this toxic mentality.

So, finally: I will not be able to finish 100 github posts in 2019, but I am not going to stop this 100 days of github challenge. I will just be a little easy on myself, and not have this constant nagging in my head. Look out of spillovers in 2020. And hopefully, I'll just continue github-ing something or the other after that.

See you in a bit.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

100 Days of Github. Take 2, Day 46

Day 46

Animating a billiards ball rolling around on a billiards table.
Github link here and nbviewer link here. (Nbviewer link preferred.)



This one took a while for my brain to figure out, because I wasn't thinking clearly about the ODEs. A very "d-oh" moment.

A point to note is that along with MyEps, the time step of the ODE solver plays an important role in determining how fuzzy the wall will be.

Another point to note is that the ODE solver I have used here is the very modest Euler method, because the ODE RHS function is linear in the variables, and so I don't need a higher order solver.

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Note the lack of metrics here.

Sunday, December 15, 2019

100 Days of Github. Take 2, Day 45

Day 45

Playing around with Delhi temperature time series. Check it our here.


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100 Days of Github. Take 2, Day 44

Day 44

Playing around with animating the Lorenz system. You'll understand when you see it.
Github link here. (The animation doesn't render here.)
Nbviewer site link here.

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