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MilesCranmer / nobels_by_country.md
Last active June 18, 2017 11:55
Nobel prizes by country, per capita and per scientist, post-1985 and post-1970

Rankings

First, let's look at just physics.

Since this is a lot less data to work with, we'll take prizes from 1970 onwards.

Country Nobels in Physics 2016 population (millions) Nobels per million
Denmark 2 5.7 0.350877193
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MilesCranmer / tricks.md
Last active June 21, 2017 03:35
Programming tricks

Favorite tricks

(These are ranked in order of favourites)

Getting includes automatically in C

Set up ctags:

apt-get install exuberant-ctags
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MilesCranmer / plotdf.py
Created November 13, 2018 16:30
Plot only 99th percentile of data with pandas.
def plotdf(df, x, y, sample=10000):
df = df[[x, y]].sample(sample).copy()
for col in [x, y]:
df = df[(df[col] > df[col].quantile(0.01)) & (df[col] < df[col].quantile(0.99))]
df.plot(
x, y,
linestyle='', marker='.',
markersize=0.1)
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MilesCranmer / plotdf.py
Last active November 18, 2018 02:36
Plot only 98th percentile of data with pandas with subsample
def plotdf(df, x, y, c=None, sample=10000, alpha=0.5, color=None,
cmap='viridis', clabel=None, xlabel=None, ylabel=None,
noise_df=None, percentile=0.98, use_noise_df_for_framing=False,
noise_alpha=0.1):
cols_to_get = [x, y]
if c is not None:
cols_to_get.append(c)
df = df[cols_to_get]
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MilesCranmer / simple_detex.vim
Last active December 22, 2018 04:44
Remove latex code so can feed paper into grammarly.com
" Delete up to begin{document}, and from end{document} to before the bibliography.
:%s/\\cite{[a-zA-Z0-9_]\+}/REF/g
:%s/\\citealt{[a-zA-Z0-9_]\+}/REF/g
:%s/\\cref{[a-zA-Z0-9_:]\+}/REF/g
:%s/\\caption{//g
:%s/\$\$.\{-}\$\$/REF/g
:%s/\$.\{-}\$/REF/g
:%s/\\[a-zA-Z_]\+{.*}/ /g
:%s/\\[a-zA-Z_]\+/ /g
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MilesCranmer / build_vim_with_conda.sh
Created May 14, 2019 17:21
Build vim in a conda environment
#!/bin/bash
#This builds vim with python + python3 support in a conda environment. No sudo required! Replace the directories to your own.
vi_cv_path_python=/mnt/home/mcranmer/miniconda3/envs/py27/bin/python \
vi_cv_path_python3=/mnt/home/mcranmer/miniconda3/envs/main/bin/python \
./configure \
--with-features=huge \
--enable-multibyte \
--enable-rubyinterp=yes \
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MilesCranmer / use_pymc3_like_emcee.py
Last active October 2, 2019 02:37
Use PyMC3 like emcee
##########################################
#emcee example:
##########################################
import numpy as np
import emcee
# Number of samples for each chain.
N_samp = 1000
def log_prob(x):
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MilesCranmer / vanden_berk.dat
Created November 25, 2019 05:37
Title: Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Authors: Vanden Berk D.E., Richards G.T., Bauer A., Strauss M.A.,
Schneider D.P., Heckman T.M., York D.G., Hall P.B., Fan X., Knapp G.R.,
Anderson S.F., Annis J., Bahcall N.A., Bernardi M., Briggs J.W.,
Brinkmann J., Brunner R., Burles S., Carey L., Castander F.J.,
Connolly A.J., Crocker J.H., Csabai I., Doi M., Finkbeiner D.,
Friedman S., Frieman J.A., Fukugita M., Gunn J.E., Hennessy G.S.,
Ivezic Z., Kent S., Kunszt P.Z., Lamb D.Q., Leger R.F., Long D.C.,
Loveday J., Lupton R.H., Meiksin A., Merelli A., Munn J.A.,
Newberg H.J., Newcomb M., Nichol R.C., Owen R., Pier J.R., Pope A.,
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MilesCranmer / pretty_plots
Created January 28, 2020 16:55
Pretty plots taken from Neural Tangents notebook
from IPython.display import set_matplotlib_formats
set_matplotlib_formats('pdf', 'svg')
import matplotlib
import seaborn as sns
sns.set(font_scale=1.3)
sns.set_style("darkgrid", {"axes.facecolor": ".95"})
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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MilesCranmer / writings-tracking-with-git.bash
Created June 11, 2020 10:37 — forked from markwk/writings-tracking-with-git.bash
My Writings Tracker with Git: A bash script for tracking my writings in plain tex files, calculate stats like word count, hashtags and new files, store stats to csv and commit to git.
#!/bin/bash
##################################
#
# THE ARCHIVE TRACKER
#
# REF: https://gist.github.com/markwk/c85a8a72bc8c03d0f510262bb5219a34/
#
# INTRODUCTION:
# Daily script to navigate to a directory of plain text files,
# add files to git repo, calculate key stats, store stats to csv