Bazaar in five minutes — Bazaar v2.4.0dev6 documentation
Introduction Bazaar is a distributed version control system that makes it easier for people to work together on software projects. Over the next five minutes, you’ll learn how to put your files under version control, how to record changes to them, examine your work, publish it and send your work for merger into a project’s trunk. Introducing yourself Bazaar records changes to source code, and it records who made the change. The person is identified by their name and email address.
NSA surveillance: how to stay secure
Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves. For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. I wasn't part of today's story – it was in process well before I showed up – but everything I read confirms what the Guardian is reporting.
Bazaar Tutorial — Bazaar v2.4.0dev6 documentation
Introduction If you are already familiar with decentralized version control, then please feel free to skip ahead to “Introducing Yourself to Bazaar”. If, on the other hand, you are familiar with version control but not decentralized version control, then please start at “How DVCS is different.” Otherwise, get some coffee or tea, get comfortable and get ready to catch up. The purpose of version control Odds are that you have worked on some sort of textual data – the sources to a program, web sites or the config files that Unix system administrators have to deal with in /etc.
Getting Started with R – RStudio Support
New to R? There are hundreds of websites that can help you learn the language. Here's how you can use some of the best to become a productive R programmer. Start by downloading R and RStudio. Learn the basics
pandas: powerful Python data analysis toolkit — pandas 0.14.1 documentation
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StatsModels: Statistics in Python — statsmodels 0.5.0 documentation
statsmodels is a Python module that provides classes and functions for the estimation of many different statistical models, as well as for conducting statistical tests, and statistical data exploration. An extensive list of result statistics are avalable for each estimator. The results are tested against existing statistical packages to ensure that they are correct. The package is released under the open source Modified BSD (3-clause) license. The online documentation is hosted at sourceforge. Since version 0.5.0 of statsmodels, you can use R-style formulas together with pandas data frames to fit your models.
Massimo Rimondini - Useful downloads
This page contains some useful programs I have written. PPspliT is a PowerPoint add-in that splits animation effects into different slides. Its most practical application is when you want to produce a PDF file of a presentation where several different shapes are drawn overlapped (because they are supposed to appear at different times). PPspliT does for you the job of producing a separate slide for each entry/exit/emphasis effect you would apply when the presentation is being actually played.
Man v machine: can computers cook, write and paint better than us?
One video, for me, changed everything. It’s footage from the old Atari game Breakout, the one where you slide a paddle left and right along the bottom of the screen, trying to destroy bricks by bouncing a ball into them. You may have read about the player of the game: an algorithm developed by DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence company whose AlphaGo programme also beat one of the greatest ever Go players, Lee Sedol, earlier this year. Perhaps you expect a computer to be good at computer games? Once they know what to do, they certainly do it faster and more consistently than any human.
