debasishg

General Background and Overview

1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t

amcclosky

#!/bin/sh

# usage: mkramdisk 1024 ~/scratch

function mkramdisk() {
  ramfs_size_mb=$1
  mount_point=$2
  ramfs_size_sectors=$((${ramfs_size_mb}*1024*1024/512))
  ramdisk_dev=`hdid -nomount ram://${ramfs_size_sectors}`
  newfs_hfs -v 'ram disk' ${ramdisk_dev}

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

codeinthehole

from celery import chain

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

from . import tasks


class Command(BaseCommand):

    def handle(self, *args, **kwargs):

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

halpo

################################################################################
# Copyright 2011
# Andrew Redd
# 11/23/2011
#
# Description of File:
# Makefile for knitr compiling
# 
################################################################################
all:pdf  # default rule DO NOT EDIT

cboettig

library(Rmpi)
 
## load the packages we'll need
RLIBS="~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.13"
.libPaths(c(RLIBS, .libPaths()))
 
### Direct RMPI way:
mpi.spawn.Rslaves(nslaves=15)
slavefn <- function() { print(paste("Hello from", foldNumber)) }
mpi.bcast.cmd(foldNumber <- mpi.comm.rank())

sixtenbe

#!/usr/bin/python2


# Copyright (C) 2016 Sixten Bergman
# License WTFPL
#
# This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent
# permitted by applicable law. 
# You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The
# Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See

philippbosch

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "iTerm"
		activate
	
		try
			set _term to last terminal
		on error
			set _term to (make new terminal)
		end try