When you need a simple dialog to get input from the user or just some piece of information in a GUI dialog, zenity helps. It allows scripts to receive user input by dialog.

zenity --info --text="Merge complete. Updated 3 of 10 files."

The book has the chapters on iPython, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Machine Learning. It looks, it doesn't delve into technical/theoretical aspects but focuses on Python libraries regarding data science.

Github page for the book.

I have multiple Github accounts and some of these are collaborator in others. I don't like to write passwords every time I push, so I set up SSH keys for my accounts. But Github (understandably) doesn't accept a key in more than one account. (Otherwise how can it know?)

But …

For a large package like tensorflow I was experiencing the following error in pip

pip._vendor.urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out.

    v = self._sslobj.read(len, buffer)
socket.timeout: The read operation timed out

I noticed the pip has a timeout parameter …

When writing the GUI code in Qt for a deep learning system, a general problem is to convert an image (read from disk or camera using OpenCV) in the form of a Numpy array, to a QImage to be shown in a form or widget.

There are basically two problems …

We don't construct the database queries using the string formatting due to security problems. SQL injection attacks stem from lack of escapes and building queries from given strings.

We use parameter passing to database engine, e.g.

SELECT * FROM people WHERE name = ? 

and use this query and pass the parameters …

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Binary Classification

Given a picture, classify it as cat or non-cat. The result is \(\hat{y} = P(y=1 | x)\). In other words, given \(x\), we calculate the probability that …

For two days, I was trying to find a bug in my code, because an assertion in the code that uses numpy.max was giving an error like ValueError: zero-size array to reduction operation maximum which has no identity which didn't seem reasonable.

I'm building a face recognizer with dlib …

I'm using this too much in different projects and would like to keep it here.

Python doesn't have C style static variables natively. (Although it supports class variables which can be used for similar purpose in OOP.) However, as the functions are also objects in Python, it's possible to embed …

I began implementing Ottoman translator using Finite State Transducers via OpenFST. Instead of using ad hoc algorithms to translate Ottoman and Turkish into each other, I'll be creating FSTs.

In the past I have used FOMA and TRmorph, as a building block and basis for Ottoman conversion. However I saw …