Category Archives: computing

Posted on March 24, 2012 by mt4

I’m reading James Gleick’s The Information, and finding it exceptionally thought provoking.  I’m almost done.  The book is a vivid historical journey and exposition of various interconnected forms of communication as discovered and/or practiced by humans, including the syntax and … Continue reading →

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Hacking

Posted on February 16, 2012 by mt4

What does it mean to be a hacker?  If you’re like me, a physics graduate student or any other person struggling to meet your programming demands and expand your programming skills, you might agree with my opinion that it just … Continue reading →

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MATLAB for controlling external hardware

Posted on January 8, 2012 by mt4

Happy New Year!!! For a while we’ve used patchy solutions for controlling a digital micromirror device (DMD), first just by roughly changing the included API code, then a professional software engineer designed a beautiful but very complicated Java code to … Continue reading →

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password-free ssh and writing executable bash scripts

Posted on May 16, 2011 by mt4

First, a tangentially related note on password-free ssh and writing executable bash scripts.  By example… I wanted to quickly login to the login node for the research computing cluster at Rice University (all names/addresses have been changed).  Here’s how one … Continue reading →

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SUG@R – grid computing at Rice

Posted on April 19, 2011 by mt4

Grid computing, with some effort, can result in huge gains in computing power per unit time.  Its most straightforward use is to run one single script with many different parameters.  Here are some essential documents from the Rice IT website: … Continue reading →

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hyperlinks and alphabetized lists in latex

Posted on March 17, 2011 by mt4

There are so many things to learn and not quite as many ways to record what it is you’ve learned. There’s not many things more frustrating than the feeling “I knew a thing some time ago, but now I’ve forgot” … Continue reading →

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cygwin, bash, mingw, open source matlab for windows. And SUG@R at Rice

Posted on March 10, 2011 by mt4

It’s been years since I submitted a job to a computer cluster, and I’ve since purchased a Windows 7 machine, and have a Windows 7 machine in my office, Windows XP in my lab… Right now we’re testing out how … Continue reading →

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