This tutorial explains how to do just that with a single python script.
On a mac, the system applications folder is located in \Applications, however if we wish to access a program we have to go to /Applications/AppName.app/Content/MacOS/Appname in order to run it.
This can be verbose and time consuming…
Sometimes we are interested in the execution times of individual functions within a script. There are many ways to do this, however the use of the inbuilt performance JavaScript performance library remains the simplest to explain.
Although it is possible to time functions manually and scrape the developer console for…
When developing software that has many potential uses, we may encounter a situation where potentially sensitive datasets are used by some users, but should not be available to others. …
How to convert to and from hex dumps using xxd
In an earlier article, I explained the use of compiled binary files to hide the code run within them:
https://daniel-ellis.medium.com/compiling-a-shell-script-to-binary-8dac07b770df
However, it is not possible to set environmental variables using this method. MD5 checksums were considered, however, these are NOT…
Unlike the interactive Graphical User Interface, there is also a CLI for use on headless machines or HPC clusters, when local memory requirements just don’t cut it. Here we go over some of the basic functionality:
Although the script works through normal python or Jupyter notebooks, the most intuitive way…
A quickstart anaconda environment cheatsheet for everyday use.
We choose to create an environment named myenv
conda create --name myenv
A custom location (e.g. this directory under the name myenv)
conda create --prefix ./myenv python=3.7 --yes;
conda create --name myenv --clone env2clone
conda info --envs
conda activate myenv
Activating an…
With the introduction of two-factor authentication, we are now required to change the way we access our repositories. There are now two main methods to upload to Github: using ssh keys or access tokens. This page describes the latter.
user icon (top-right)SettingsHow to create a fully customised colour mapping within matplotlib.
Our data is split into non-uniform categories, where a linear colour bar will be inefficient. In this tutorial, we cover how to create a custom colourmap with colours matching bins of our chosen sizes.
We start by importing the required…
Just some notes on getting started.
Bede is the N8’s Tier 2 Power and GPU-based high-performance computing (HPC) platform.
Notes on how to set up an interactive GPU session for computation on the Leeds System.
qrsh -l h_rt=2:0:0,coproc_v100=1,h_vmem=8G -pty y bashA single V100 card, 10 CPU cores and 48GB system memory (one quarter of the available resource on a V100 node)
qrsh -l h_rt=2:0:0,coproc_k80=1 -pty y bashA…
