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Fedora 22 Scientific Alpha

Just tested the Fedora 22 Scientific Alpha RC3 image today with the test scripts/programs. Some screen shots follow:

IPython notebook

Screenshot_Fedora22-Scientific_2015-03-09_11:13:05

IPython notebook/SymPy/matplotlib plotting

F22scientific2

Pandas

Screenshot_Fedora22-Scientific_2015-03-09_11:58:43

A complete list of all the software included is in the guide.

Contribute to Fedora Scientific

  • Use it!
  • You can  help complete the guide. One notable piece of software missing from that list is “pandas”.
  • You can add examples/scripts/IPython notebooks to the repository here
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In the Australian Capital Territory: 367 days and Counting

This is Canberra, a view atop Mt. Ainslie, one of my two favourite places in Canberra:

A view from Mt. Ainslie, Canberra, Australia

and this is my second favourite place here, the Lake Burley Griffin

Nearing sunset on the shores of the Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, Australia

I saw nature becoming colourful, then barren and then slowly becoming colourful again:

Canberra in Autumn, April, 2011

Dying to be born again

The harbinger of Spring!

hey, look! Spring is here!

So how is Life here?

Depending on how you define the presence of life, you may love it or hate it. If you like to wander lonely as a cloud, it is quite perfect. If you want to mix and mingle, I think its quite OK too. Yes, it does sleep early. The shops close by 6.00 PM on weekdays, but I think its quite easy to adapt to these things.

Buzzwords I would use to describe Canberra

Peaceful and Beautiful.

I am looking forward to the next 365 days. Spring is almost here. Its a beautiful day, the outdoors beckon.

SIGEVOlution Volume 4: Issue #3

The latest newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation is out. Download it here.

Front page of the Newsletter (Source:http://www.sigevo.org)

A primer on Ext4

Now that almost all distributions offer ext4 as the default file system, it’s high time we looked at the most compelling feature set of the file system and understood how to migrate from its predecessor. Now that almost all distributionsoffer ext4 as the default file system,it’s high time we looked at the most compelling feature set of the filesystem and understood how to migrate from its predecessor.

The January 2010 issue of Linux For You has published my article on Ext4 which, as the name suggests is a primer on Ext4 focusing on the geek user. If you happen to have a copy lying by, let me know how you find it!

Article series: Getting started with GNU Octave

With the December, 2009 issue of Linux For You I have started an article series on GNU Octave.  This article marks my foray into writing about scientific computing tools and also a article series.

(The PDFs given here are pre-print PDFs and have been uploaded here with prior permission from the Linux For You team; if you are interested in republishing it in any form, please contact me)

Table of Contents:

  1. Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part -1 : December, 2009 issue of Linux For You (PDF)
  2. Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part -2: January, 2010 issue of Linux For You (PDF)
  3. Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part -3: February, 2010 issue of Linux For You (PDF)
  4. Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part -4: April, 2010 issue of Linux For You (PDF coming up)
  5. Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part -5: May, 2010 issue of Linux For You (PDF coming up)
  6. Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part -6: June, 2010 issue of Linux For You (PDF coming up)

Perchance

If you have arrived here perchance, Welcome! I am trying to ‘re-set’ this blog up and will be the the one going into the future, as Google is giving up on Google pages ( a wonderful service!) and WordPress.com will allow me to me to have a blog which looks more like a proper website. I am too lazy to maintain my own domain. :)

For now, yuo may want to look at the pages here or browse through my current blog, http://amitksaha.blogspot.com and homepage http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com