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 ...
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 ...
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 above issue occurred to me once I did a force shut down on my machine where I had MS SQL Server Manager working .Although I could query for the databases and tables, when I try to expand a database in the object explorer it gave me above error. There could be couple of reasons for this and error log ...
Grace Hopper Celebration Being a pioneer in the computing field which is regarded to be male-dominant is challenging for many women. Despite the social-economical challenges, some walk in heels, let their skills shine and serve their communities as best as they can. The history has being made and our lives have been shaped for the better by such women. Among ...
kallisto is a tool to quantify transcript abundances from RNA-Seq data. kallisto is available from bioconda. (https://anaconda.org/bioconda/kallisto) and can be installed by, conda install -c bioconda kallisto You need to have conda, the package manager which comes with Anaconda, a programming environment for python and R. If you have Anaconda installed, you may still get an error when executing above ...
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 ...
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 ...
I am sharing a one-minute video, I made during my PhD studies explaining how unsupervised learning can be used to learn about a sample of microbes. The objective of this video was to explain a chapter of my thesis with many biological and technical terms with zero jargon in one minute! https://youtu.be/gDcYwUDbEkU
Prague is a city where time seems to have stood still and being in Prague for 6 days was one of the most memorable events of my life so far. Prague has a lot to offer for a visitor: the beautiful old town with a history dating back to 900, mesmerizing statues around the city, both in old and new ...
List is one of the fundamental data structures we frequently use in our programs. A linked list could be generated using a simple data structure as follows. class Node { Node next; } To identify a loop within a created linked list using above data structure, we will use a rabbit and a turtle; Rabbit iterating in n steps among ...
Up above burning under the sun Palmyra wanted to be heard of all its beautiful rhythms.. So was waiting the Araliya for a day for its fragrance to spread and send the message of love.
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])]; ...
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 ...
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") ...
