Practising mindfulness (which is non-judgmental present moment awareness) helps us cope up with difficult situations. This photo is from a mindfulness workshop that I attended to. In this workshop, participants were given a tiny leaf and asked to focus on it for a few minutes, giving it their full attention and feel what they notice, To acknowledge the fact that, ...
Double Helix, certainly kept me hooked. Tucked among the books on theories on genomes, sequencing and molecule structures, I found this gem at the library, a narrative written by James D. Watson on the discovery of structure of DNA for which he and his partners, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in ...
When working with multiple .tex files having multiple windows comes more handy than having all the .tex documents and related files in one Texstudio session. Below is the quick way to have this feature in windows. In the properties window of the Texstudio short cut, set the target as “path_to_executable” –start-always
R comes as a handy tool for a data scientist. One package I found useful while working in R, is factoextra, a package for visualisation and extraction of results from multivariate data analysis including different dimensionality reduction techniques and clustering methods. The official documentation of factoextra is at http://www.sthda.com/english/rpkgs/factoextra/. It can be installed from CRAN using the command , install.packages("factoextra") ...
With the rapidly expanding daily use of Information Technology, we have to accept that the industry is running out of the skilled workforce to cope-up with the demand. On the other hand, census suggests that a considerable amount of youth remains unemployed while having a Bachelors qualification, struggling to find a workplace. See a problem? Academia is working hard ...
The best days of the year for both adults and kids in Sri Lanka fall in 2nd week of April. It is the period we have Sinhala Hindu New year : the traditional celebration of new year. It is the period when all irrespective of the age and wealth come together with the family and cherish the time together all ...
Installing R : To install R on your machine, choose the mirror preferred from below, and add it to the repository list. https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html sudo add-apt-repository '<em>the_selected_mirror_site'</em> Then execute below commands to install R. </pre> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev <pre> Install Rstudio : #Install the necessary dependencies. sudo apt-get install ...
I sit shocked and overwhelmed. At the same time, I am glad that it finished. A narrative: narrated by death, where he himself confesses ‘I am haunted by humans’ and THE END. The book thief by Markus Zusak was the only book I finished in a stretch recently. To write a narrative by Death: That is genius in writing!! The ...
Self Organizing Map (SOM) also known as Kohenan Maps are simple yet powerful unsupervised learning algorithm which have not lost its popularity over the years. Below is an implementation of SOM in Python written by myself. A map of Neuron objects with GridPosition as the key is used to represent the developed neural network. https://github.com/damayanthiHerath/selforganisingmaps
Although crowded in the middle, with people rushing around in the city and a few-minutes-frequent trams running all the time, Melbourne is a city with many ‘get-away’s situated in the middle of the city itself. One such place, situated a few minutes tram ride from the Melbourne CBD, is FlagStaff Gardens. http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/Placestogo/ParksandGardens/AllParksandGardens/Pages/4435.aspx Established in 1862, it is considered to be ...
It has been a while since I logged out and by logout I mean ‘Deactivate’. I am celebrating my time with less social media and hope the cheer shall remain. I sure am missing some things too. I have more time left to read, more time to keep my face out of the window while traveling in a tram and ...
Captain James Cook is remembered in Australia, as the sailor who discovered the south coast of Australia.I recently visited the Cook’s Cotttage , which is considered to be the oldest building in Australia. It is walking distance away from Melbourne CBD, in the Fitzroy garden. The facts say that the cottage which was originally built in Yorkshire, England by the parents of ...
Theano is a python library, which provides easy abstraction to many of the mathematical computations. It also provides and abstraction to run code on GPUs and accelerate the execution. Below is the link to official Theano site. http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ Once installed on Linux, Theano package should be configured to use GPU explicitly . This is done by adding configurations to the ...
The breeze of a new year,is around the corner. Being in Sri Lanka, last year I was late to feel the breeze. This time, being in Melbourne, Australia we are the 5th, according to the timezone details below. http://www.worldtimezone.com/newyear.html (No, Sri Lanka is NOT a part of India, though it is listed under India, We are neighbors). I was fortunate enough to ...
Sometimes, I hear people claiming, I am specialized in Computer Engineering, but I am not fond of coding. For me it is like saying, ‘I know a lot of recipes, but I don’t like cooking’ or ‘I can compose beautiful music, but I don’t like playing them or singing’. The beauty in programming I find it fascinating to learn a ...
