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Guide to effective computing, because we don't know how to use computers.

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Migrate pictures to imgur

Just a better idea, and I get various sized thumbnails for free.

Write post on IPython Notebook workflow

IPython Notebooks are pretty cool, but they are limited without some additions.

Pros

• Code in line with running
• Images in line with code (huge deal!)
• Many kernels supported (including shell?)

Cons

• Default text editing is not great
• No built-in git support

So if I can come up with a IPython Notebook with some extensions, it could potentially be better than tmux + ipython + slimux.

Extensions

• notebook_input_mode to add ViM support (I forked to add a README which explains how to use it)
• ipymd to read/write notebooks in markdown format so that they can be cleanly put under git (see examples here)
• A simple git commit button to just save the commit...I think with ipymd, it strips out funky output? Not sure about that

Info

• StackExchange question
• GitHub seems to suggest that storing the .ipynb files isn't a problem at all. One hitch is the hard limit of 1GB on repositories. If I'm throwing around output that's even 100kb, it's conceivable to hit that limit. MarkDown seems like a better storage medium in general, with .ipynb being for presentation (or .html)
• One alternative would be to issue shell commands directly in a cell to do a git commit. But I need a way to exclude a cell then...I thought I saw something like that...

`pylab` section should have revealing examples

Concoct an example of some data that is difficult to grok when staring at an array, but becomes clear when plotted. Do this for both the scatterplot and the heat map.