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Tue 17 October 2017 howto code latex systems

I have always been a fan of using LaTeX for all of my writeups. LaTeX has a fantastic graphical library called TikZ that I use to generate nearly all of my graphics. It has quite a steep learning curve, but once you get going, you can define all of your …

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Fri 22 September 2017 howto code python servers systems

I do a lot of coding at Stanford on my laptop. It's a wonderful machine, but it simply cannot handle huge amounts of number-crunching. Most research organizations provide computing clusters fully equipped with state-of-the-art software in order to help out folks like me.

Clusters are helpful not only when you …