Where communities thrive
Join over
1.5M+ people
Join over
100K+ communities
Free
without limits
Create
your own community
Explore more communities
AstroHackWeek/day1
Astro Hack Week 2014
People
Repo info
Activity
Jake Vanderplas
@jakevdp
Hello?
Fernando Perez
@fperez
hi
Dan Foreman-Mackey
@dfm
sup foos
James Davenport
@jradavenport
Hi, i lost my phone and dont have all my #'s, who's this?
Caroline Sofiatti
@sofiatti
Hi!
Jake Vanderplas
@jakevdp
Here's the URL:
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks
jhennawi
@jhennawi
Who is Julia?
Jake Vanderplas
@jakevdp
http://julialang.org/
David W. Hogg
@davidwhogg
Yo wassuh!
Jake Vanderplas
@jakevdp
http://www.quora.com/Julia-programming-language/Why-is-Julia-named-Julia
Fernando Perez
@fperez
For those asking for a reference to the 'absurd fit' image, here's the paper:
http://www.klapdor-k.de/POSITIVE-EVID/fulltext.pdf
and the reference:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1019722802931
Ruth Angus
@RuthAngus
For those interested in Gaussian processes:
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/
Dan Foreman-Mackey
@dfm
http://dan.iel.fm/gp.js/
gully
@gully
hello world
Fernando Perez
@fperez
For those interested (e.g. Cathy) in running a public-facing, SSL-enabled and password secured IPython Notebook server, see here:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/Notebook/Running%20the%20Notebook%20Server.ipynb
Fernando Perez
@fperez
A nice discussion about p-values that won a recent award for statistical writing:
http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700
Fernando Perez
@fperez
Chris Beaumont's talk on Glue (astro interactive data vis tool):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SES7DMwq9Lc&feature=youtu.be
Going on right now, will be kept recorded on youtube for later reference.
Title is: Hackable User Interfaces and The Future of Data Analysis in Astronomy
cathypetry
@cathypetry
What is the other tool you mentioned??
Fernando Perez
@fperez
Bokeh:
http://bokeh.pydata.org/
Fernando Perez
@fperez
Jake's Scientific Americal blog post is up!
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/2014/09/16/visualizing-4-dimensional-asteroids/
Wilma Trick
@wilmatrick
Hi, does anyone have experience with cases where calculating the likelihood is so expensive, that MCMC is not efficient enough anymore? Would appreciate any advice. :-)
James Davenport
@jradavenport
Looks like the Jaynes book on Probability Theory is online:
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf
James Davenport
@jradavenport
and the MacKay book:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/book.html
Madhura Killedar
@piccolomud_twitter
This message was deleted
_