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11 April 2010 View Comments

PStricks vs. TikZ for Technical Diagrams

Norman Ramsey at StackOverflow once asked: My group uses Literate Programming for most of our source code—this means that internal documentation is written using LaTeX. We have been using PStricks for fancy technical diagrams of the system, but have recently been recommended to use TikZ. I’ve gathered this information:

TikZ/PGF is new and maintained; PStricks went a [...]


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11 April 2010 View Comments

Tutorial: Linear Programming with GeoGebra

Introduces to a basic application of Linear Programming.

Linear programming is often a favorite topic for both professors and students. The ability to introduce LP using a graphical approach, the relative ease of the solution method, the widespread availability of LP software packages, and the wide range of applications make LP accessible even to students with relatively weak mathematical backgrounds. Additionally, LP provides [...]


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8 April 2010 View Comments

Best Windows Explore Replacements

Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep multiple folder views open at once.

The app—which installs by default, but can run by itself after renaming it [...]


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20 March 2010 View Comments

IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX

IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX

Ipe extensible drawing editor is a free vector graphics editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format. It can be used for making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations. It was developed by Otfried Cheong in 1993 and initially worked on SGI workstations only. Ipe 6 [...]


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16 March 2010 View Comments

Howto Upload Files Using FTP Command Line

Have you find upload file using your FTP client extremely slow? Do you interested to use FTP command line instead? Useful to impress girls with CLI skills :p. This is a visual guide of how to do just about that. Here is the scenario, I would like to upload a file C:\Users\Dean\Desktop\temp\Nelson2002.pdf.


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14 March 2010 View Comments

Visualizing Finance Crisis Using Processing

Data-Based Video Manipulation. How fall of stocks changes expression.
Experiment in visualizing data the josef ackermann statement is pitched in relation to the share price value of deutsche bank. Build with processing, data is read from a share price chart image taken from the web.


7 March 2010 View Comments

vcasmo: video/presentation + picture/slides together!

I was reading this blog post on Revolutions Computing’s blog and discovered the vcasmo service, a way to post a presentation or video with the slides right next to it. This is DEFINITELY something I will use. Often times I watch talks or presentation videos online and most of the time the videos are either focused on [...]


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7 March 2010 View Comments

Statistics With R – Online Books, Code and Some Other Useful Resources

Online Books
Statistics with R by Vincent Zoonekynd, 2007
  It covers 1. Introduction to R 2. Programming in R 3. From Data to Graphics 4. Customizing graphics 5. Factorial methods: Around Principal Component Analysis (PCA) 6. Clustering 7. Probability Distributions 8. Estimators and Statistical Tests 9. Regression 10. Other regressions 11. Regression Problems — and their [...]