While working on Matlab desktop application, I wanted it to notify me once the execution complete, so that I can continue with other work until (*usually 6 hours taking )job completes. A simple way to get notified once the script completes is to add the command beep at the end. If you want any custom music, you can use sound ...
Box plots are another useful data visualization tool. But it is not straightforward how you can plot a boxplot , when your instances (rows/columns) have variable lengths. For a trivial case , below is the simplest. V1 = randn(15, 1); V2 = randn(10, 1); V3 = randn(6, 1); group = [repmat(1, [15, 1]) ; repmat(2, [10, 1]); repmat(3, [6, 1])]; ...
I recently acquired membership of Toastmasters international and became a member of the Melbourne University Toastmasters club which is a club filled with a set of quite enthusiastic individuals and are passionate about encouraging each other to speak up and get rid of any form of glossophobia. (Glossophobia is defined as the fear of public speaking). As a Toastmasters club ...
I was not at all a fan of Microsoft Excel . But, when you work with data and data comes in many forms , be it in Excel : YOU DEAL WITH THEM! . The task I was working on included a number of Excel files which contained data in a fixed format. Imagine a set of Excel files on ...
It is amazing how you can read the DNA of people, like you read a book. I find it fascinating that you can find reflections of their behavior, their appearance, even their thought process, in their DNA. I am still in the early stages of understanding how we, the people speaking the language of ‘1’s and ‘0’s, can understand the ...
With Windows 7, installed, I had successful installation completion of Ubuntu 15.04 expecting to have dual boot. But upon installation completion, once I restarted the machine, it directs boots up into Windows and made me sad to see that I have lost a fair amount of my hard allocated for Ubuntu (obviously :)) The quick fix to solve the issue ...
Enter into the world of tiny little sparkling particles , bonding with each other bringing the world into life. Look at the way they evolve, making thousands and thousands of bonds spreading the life all over. See that small kid, playing with his mom in the ground? Doesn’t he have the eyes as twinkling as his mother’s? They made ...
(scikit-learn)http://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html is a collection of tools developed in python for data mining and data analysis. The detailed steps on installation are described here . http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html I used the method of third party distributions of scikit learn, which is python(x,y) if you want to install onWindows. Following are simple steps to quickly set up it on windows. Download https://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/. This comes with ...
Catch the bus on time, which will not reach the destination on time treasure the winning moment, it might not last for a long time. be jobless and become the Entrepreneur of the year, to deal with unexpected hiding all the fear. Get into the wrong train and fall in love, Keep looking towards future, worrying what is now. be ...
Today I got the opportunity to try out Google Cardboard. Thanks to Shamika, we have one at the Peradeniya Computer Engineering Department to play around with. Google cardboard (https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/get-cardboard.html) is a simple paper product, which consists of bunch of cardboard and 2 lenses and works as a phone based Virtual Reality viewer , once assembled using a magnet to handle ...
Considering about one’s career in today’s world, we will have 3 options. 1. Be a big fish in a small pond 2. Be a small fish in a big pond 3. Ride your own car with your own petrol I have been in all 3 above , and I see all 3 have it’s own pros and cons. In 10 ...
You can easily configure you emails residing on a Linux server to be forwarded into an email address you prefer. For an example if you want your emails at stu01@ce.pera.lk to be forwarded to stu01@gmail.com , you could do this by editing the .forward file in your home folder. .forward is a utility provided for individual users on Linux to ...
While working in MS SQL, we often need to do data conversion from one type to another. Consider , comparing 2 dates in string format. Easiest would be to cast the parameters into DATETIME from VARCHAR. There are 2 functions supported by SQL Server , for casting, that is ‘CAST’ and ‘CONVERT’ But which is the best function to use? ...
While working in MS SQL, we often need to do data conversion from one type to another. Consider , comparing 2 dates in string format. Easiest would be to cast the parameters into DATETIME from VARCHAR. There are 2 functions supported by SQL Server , for casting, that is ‘CAST’ and ‘CONVERT’ But which is the best function to use? ...
This is linked to my previous post In this blog post, I would also like to share this awesome post I found through internet, I have no idea who the actual writer is but am grateful to him/her for presenting it, exactly what we all need to , but could not better. Have you ever watched them sleep? —————————————————- ...
This is linked to my previous post In this blog post, I would also like to share this awesome post I found through internet, I have no idea who the actual writer is but am grateful to him/her for presenting it, exactly what we all need to , but could not better. Have you ever watched them sleep? —————————————————- ...
I love my parents and dedicate this post for them. Not only for them but also to all the parents , who strives hard daily for their children loving them unconditionally. The title of this post is “pure love”, and it is exactly what I wanted to write about: pure love: The love of parents . Parents are like this ...
I love my parents and dedicate this post for them. Not only for them but also to all the parents , who strives hard daily for their children loving them unconditionally. The title of this post is “pure love”, and it is exactly what I wanted to write about: pure love: The love of parents . Parents are like this ...
