MATLAB® and NumPy/SciPy have a lot in common. But there are many differences. NumPy and SciPy were created to do numerical and scientific computing in the most natural way with Python, not to be MATLAB® clones. This page is intended to be a place to collect wisdom about the differences, mostly for the purpose of helping proficient MATLAB® users become proficient NumPy and SciPy users. NumPyProConPage is another page for curious people who are thinking of adopting Python with NumPy and SciPy instead of MATLAB® and want to see a list of pros and cons.
Here, I am collecting python snippets that I find enlightening and/or just useful. On a subpage, you find a JPype-using hack to access Weka's Java classes from Python.
HomeAbout Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries January 26th, 2009 | Published in iphone | 2 Comments For the last few months I’ve been spending much of my spare hacking time learning to code iPhone applications. I’ve found Objective C to be a surprisingly pleasant language, and Cocoa is one of the best frameworks I’ve ever worked with. I’ve reached a point where I feel I can go fairly quickly from simple app ideas to sketching in real code. I’m a web developer at heart, and a scripting language user by preference. Coding for the iPhone doesn’t feel as fluid in text handling or HTTP access as the environments I’m used to. Fortunately I’ve been able to find some fantastic open-source libraries and wrappers that make up the difference. Here are my favourites so far: GTMHTTPFetcher from Google Toolbox for Mac The iPhone’s native HTTP handling is capable, but low-level and verbose. Rather than handling the many callbacks, NSData objects and