scikit-learn and an ipython notebook
I took a look at scikit-learn today by watching Jake's video from PyData 2012. I made an ipython notebook while following along. I was on ubuntu 12.04, and there are newer versions out of the main...
View ArticleThe USCG and autonomous vehicles
Back in 2006 / 2007, I proposed that we put AIS transcievers on Autonomous {Underwater,Surface} vehicles (AUV/ASV). This would aid in recovery operations and allow a vehicle to advertise it's current...
View ArticleTracking vessels at or under the sea
First off, I have never held a secret or above clearance. I am not revealing anything from restricted documents. Any similarities are purely coincidental. I just rewatch the movie "The Hunt for Red...
View ArticleDjango updated to 1.4.5 in fink for a security issue
Updated releases issued Today the Django team is issuing two releases -- Django 1.3.7 and 1.4.5 -- to correct a packaging problem with yesterday's 1.3.6 and 1.4.4 releases. Both the 1.3.6 and 1.4.4...
View ArticleWhat python packages are installed?
Work at Google on a team that works primarily in python has pushed me to get tons better at python. It's one thing to know and working a language. It's a whole nother thing to get to that expert level....
View ArticleA well known sea turtle
Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater panoramas in Google Maps
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MichelleW post on Whale Alert
I have been enjoying Michelle W's illustrations ever since she started adding them to her posts. Her topics range from life as a PhD student to ocean acidification. Now she has done up two about the...
View ArticleUS Array data compared to model
I am wishing this was around when I took Peter Shearer's seismology course at SIO. Left side is the data, right side is a model for the event. This is from the IRIS Tutorial Data Visualizations
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ERMA makes the NOAA blog post on ERMA
Back when I was working with Rob Braswell and Michele Jacobi back 5 or 6 years ago, I really didn't think that the "Portsmouth Reponse" web app that we were working on would be come the big deal that...
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Github of databases
I have been talking about a github like community around databases. Thanks to Dustin Mitchell for pointing to the city of Chicago's posting of their databases literally to GiHub....
View ArticleMatt Deans on the NASA Exploration Ground Data System (xGDS)
Sadly I was out sick and have to catch Matt Deans' talk via youtube. Matt and I worked together at NASA Ames back in the 90's in what then called the Intelligent Mechanisms Group (IMG) and is now...
View ArticlePyCon 2013 videos online
Today, Trey made a post about the Best Talks at PyCon US 2013. I didn't make it to pycon (other than stopping by a sprint session for an hour), so this is definitely awesome. The first video that I...
View ArticleTrailScribe
Check out this video of Trey describing TrailScribe. Trey does an awesome job of describing the idea and I really like the illustrations! This sounds pretty much exactly what I was trying to advocate...
View Articleoauth2
Some parts of oauth 2.0 have just worked for me. However, there are parts that I just don't seem to get. Eventually, we'll be sharing a whole sets of tools working together with oauth2 being the...
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Ship security NOT compromised
Update 3 hours later: I impressed by the interaction around these articles that have happened. Sean has been too kind in mentioning some of the material I pointed him to in the article. Rapid 7 folks...
View ArticleOceans at Google I/O 2013
If you've wondered why my blogging has decrease for the last while, here is one of several of the reasons. I've been working hard on material for Google I/O. I am super excited that we will be sharing...
View ArticlePilots taking ships through the great barrier reef
Via GeoGarage, this is a pretty good article about pilots taking ships through tough areas. Pilots or no-pilots, accidents do happen.
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Pre-Google I/O ships - Hornblower hybrid ferry
I don't know anything about the effeciency of these hybrids, but they have an interesting look with their wind and solar power setups. This image is from a trip several of us made to Angel Island and...
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SF Fire Boat
The San Francisco fire department has their fire boat parked right in front of the Google SF offices. I had to wait for afternoon light, so I could capture a decent image.
View ArticleGoogle API python client for fink on Mac OSX
To go with Google I/O and our Cloud Infrastructure talk "All the ships in the world," I've added oauth2client, uritemplate, gflags, and google-api-python-client to fink on Mac OSX 10.7/10.8. This lets...
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